Mind: An Instrument

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly.

Eckhart Tolle

Hmmm! Once again I am going to discuss my favorite topic...the mind! 

The human mind is a superb instrument.  It really is.  It allows us to store all the sensory data we pick up everyday...compartmentalizing it into categories that can be filed away in the concious or subconcious filing cabinets.  It helps us to make sense of our outer world and therefore is instrumental in keeping us alive by alerting us to danger. It helps us, of course, to use these bodies effectively, being in a sense the director of the body. 

The body is the car and the mind is the instrument that allows the car to move...the motor.  It is just an impartial tool, an amazing tool actually ....if...used rightly.

Most of us do not use it rightly, do we?  

Infact we often sit back and let ego drive when ego is worse than an intoxicated madman behind the wheel. The ego then encourages the mind to just run off dragging us behind it, pulling us in this direction or that. We end up used by the mind instead of the other way around.

The mind was not meant to be in charge of where we go in Life.  It is just an impartial instrument meant to help us get around in these earthly forms.  We...who we really are beyond mind and body...are meant to be in charge of the mind, the one operating the mind. 

Yet most of us feel the ego-driven  mind is in charge of us.  We listen to what it has to say, we believe it and follow its advice.  We allow it to pull us around from here to there.  

We should instead allow the deeper I to drive.

The deeper I, within all of us, is meant to drive the mind... 

Who is the "I" ...the real operator of the mind?

 The deeper I is the inner presence and essence that doesn't change or react to all the varying obstacles that show up on the road in front of us. Unlike the inebreated ego it keeps a steady course down the middle of its lane ...in no hurry or no rush to get anywhere.  It just is where it is. 

Unlike the ego that can fly into road rage flipping off all the drivers that are passing it or going too slow in front of it...it kindly accepts and sees the beauty in all others. 

Whereas the  ego doesn't notice all the beautiful scenery  around it as it uses the mind to quickly  get to its destination, the "I" sees and appreciates  all that is around it. It sees this moment as its destination.  

When "I" is driving the mind is used rightly...when ego is driving the road is a very scary place to be on. 

So what do we do to ensure this instrument is used rightly?

Take the keys away from ego and give them back to the "Deeper I",  the only part of us that truely  knows how to drive. 

All is well!