I love the way you expose this "selling a mirage" from an expert in fraud, as the mind seems to be ... your way to expose this dynamic we call thinking, arrives so fresh and uncommon from others in this spiritual jungle of you tube. Thanks for your unconventional way to talk about what cannot be talked.
The mind is such a strange bedfellow. It seems to always want to make sense out of the senselessness of things. And, in my case anyway, it tends to make sense of things by deciding that horrible things are wrong with me. And so down into a dungeon of my own making I descend.
But wait! There's more! It doesn't want me to disappear altogether! No! it figures out a way to make me feel especially horrible, especially victimized, more loved by God because I am such a poor thing.
It's like you say, it wants to be permanent. It wants me to feel special. It wants the continuity of the present and the future looking just like past incidents of this sort. Amazing!
Your words are so perfectly helpful. Please let me know if I'm understanding you correctly. I am open to being called horrible or whatever... I've had a lot of practice dealing with it! Big smile.
I love the way you expose this "selling a mirage" from an expert in fraud, as the mind seems to be ... your way to expose this dynamic we call thinking, arrives so fresh and uncommon from others in this spiritual jungle of you tube. Thanks for your unconventional way to talk about what cannot be talked.
The mind is such a strange bedfellow. It seems to always want to make sense out of the senselessness of things. And, in my case anyway, it tends to make sense of things by deciding that horrible things are wrong with me. And so down into a dungeon of my own making I descend.
But wait! There's more! It doesn't want me to disappear altogether! No! it figures out a way to make me feel especially horrible, especially victimized, more loved by God because I am such a poor thing.
It's like you say, it wants to be permanent. It wants me to feel special. It wants the continuity of the present and the future looking just like past incidents of this sort. Amazing!
Your words are so perfectly helpful. Please let me know if I'm understanding you correctly. I am open to being called horrible or whatever... I've had a lot of practice dealing with it! Big smile.
Your comment made me really smile Cassandra! It takes some guts to see the benefits received from identifying with the role..
And while we’re at it.. who exactly is the mind talking to? 😉