What you'll see is that your mind is always telling you that you have to change something outside in order to solve your inner problems. But if you are wise, you won't play this game.
Michael Singer, the untethered soul, page 92
Most of us are playing a game with our minds and with our lives. We are constantly moving chess pieces across some checkered board on which we choose to live. We are attempting to manipulate, control, overcome and outsmart external world things so we feel "okay"inside.
You see we gave the mind a very humongous and unrealistic responsibility . We told it to figure out a way to make everything "out there" okay so we can feel okay "in here," We told it to show us how to make everyone like us, to make us perfect, and beautiful, to make all events out there go the way we think they should, to make the weather absolutely wonderful, to make that guy fall in love with us and never leave us, to ensure that she or anyone else never hurts us etc etc. We told it to protect us from the big bad things in life and to create a world that will give us everything we want.
The mind is just trying to do what we told it to do. It is telling us how we should be in order to get what we want, and how we should not be. It is telling us who to love and who to stay away from. It is telling us where to go and where to not go. It is telling us what is safe and what is not safe...what will make us feel bad and what might make us feel good. It is telling us what to go after, what to own, what to call ourselves in order to make it alright. It is also telling us what to avoid, when to close up and when to run which is much too often. It is basically telling us what move to make next. And we are listening.
The problem is the mind cannot do what we ask it to do. It is impossible task and it has gone a little "cuckoo" in an attempt to appease us. It won't admit that it can't do it but we just have to have a good look at how it is behaving to know our impossible request has driven it a little mad. Besides we have to realize, after so many years on this planet, that it can't make us happy. Happiness is not out there but peace, joy, love are "in here "beyond the mind games we are playing with ourselves.
We have been playing a game nobody wins. It is only when we stop listening to the mind's crazy directions and turn inward will we realize that we were playing a game that really wasn't that much fun. Life isn't about controlling, manipulating or out maneuvering the world around us...it is about finding who we really are and simply being in that.
Time to put the pieces down, don't you think?
All is well.
Singer, Michael (2007) the untethered soul. New Harbinger
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