PN: Feed the mind and wait

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Reference: Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

He talks about the concept that our mind—our thinking and emotional processes. The sum of the mind is our ego. It's the picture of our identity our mind paints for us.

The mind always wants to be either in the past or in the future, never in the now. Because the past lets it remember the identity it has formed for itself; and the future allows it to plan how to preserve this identity.

However, the mind is but a small part of our consciousness. It's a tool for survival that should be used only when necessary.

Yet, most of us are victims of the trap of thinking. We do it constantly, consciously or not, mostly repeating dull, unhealthy, and unproductive patterns of thoughts which lead to an unhappy and paradoxically unconscious life (Meditation can help you clean your brain from such thoughts).

Nonetheless, most of our capacity as a species lies in the power of our whole being—mind (conscious and unconscious) and body. It's only when you stop thinking, can you access this power. This is where slack, or times of no-mind come into play. (NSD may facilitate times of no-mind.)

It is at this time that most breakthroughs occur. When after a period of intense focus you finally let go, ideas appear in a form of serendipitous inspirations.

What happens is, that consciousness (after being fed by information), through its immense intelligence generates an impulse that is then seized by the mind in a form of an idea.

You can think of this dynamic as using the mind as something that 'feeds' the consciousness. The consciousness then 'works' in the background.

And this is how the mind should be used. Instead of constantly thinking, one should alternate between no-mind and mind, only using the latter when it's really necessary. Only then – when there's a purpose to use it – does the mind fulfill its function. It's like the kers system in F1.

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