Transform your mind, transform your world
[Talk at Intel, San Jose, USA]
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I’ll summarize I spoke today on the topic of transforming our world by transforming our mind started by how Martin Luther King said that we have guided messiahs and misguided men before that I mentioned my experience of the power of the mind the attractive sky which I was looking for my attention was caught by some resentment in my mind so within the scientific world view the mind has no locus tendae because the scientific world view focuses on physical measurable parameters but we experience life in terms of emotions and sensations so there is no such thing as a tastometer or a lavometer but taste and love are primary experiences for us so we look at an alternative model which could help us understand what the mind is so I talked about the body mind soul the three level model of the self which is like the hardware, software and user and to get a sense of this model we did the thought experiment of relaxing and clenching our hands our fists and visualizing it so the physical reality like the outer scene the mind is the inner screen and the self is the inner seer and then I talked about overall four points the four broad points first was education second was experimentation then third was evaluation then I talked about how the inner screen it moves backwards that causes depression, if it moves forward it becomes a TV showing a horror movie it causes us fear so this inner screen is dual function it can be a window or it can be a TV and that’s where we need to evaluate not every thought deserves our thought so when some thoughts appear as default propositions from our past choices just like our browser may show Bollywood even if you want to go to Bhagavad Gita sports even if you want to go to spirituality so like that based on our past habits we may feel depressed, we may feel lonely we may feel pessimistic we may feel worried when somethings happen in our life but if we don’t give power to our thoughts they don’t have any power when a thought appears it’s like a snow pebble it’s only when we dwell on it then it grows till it becomes a snowball and knocks us over and to evaluate our to better do such an evaluation of our thoughts it is feasible that we achieve elevation so when the mind is carrying us here and there one way to control ourselves is to focus on physical reality and not get carried away another is to rise to spiritual reality so I talked about this could be three level building and meditation is meant to raise our consciousness to the spiritual level where we perceive our emotions and our situations from an inner perspective and respond to them talked about if we are situated in the security as an inner seer above our situation and our emotions then we may have to live with pain but we won’t have to live in pain even if bad things happen to us even if we can’t be grateful for all situations we can be grateful in all situations our spirituality can become like our inner center inner strength like a rope which is a lifeline in an ocean so emotions and situations may hit us but we will be secure internally or whatever life may get us to our spirituality will get us through