You actually think that the Universe should be the way you want it to be.
Michael A. Singer, page 75
The mind is a brilliant thing and when we use it correctly we can live brilliant lives. The problem is that we tend to "personalize" this brilliance and thusly misuse its potentional.
The Personal Mind
There are three layers of the personal mind according to Michael Singer in Chapter 15 of living untethered. There is, what he calls, the here-and now layer: That part of the mind that is taking in all the experiences that are unfolding around us and in us in this given moment via the senses. There is the samskara layer: A layer of mind that has stored all our impressions, that which we clung to or tried to push away. And there is the personal-thought layer that is constantly trying to keep those samskaras under control so they don't come up to bother us and in so doing is also policing the here and now layer so it it doesn't trigger the samskaras. I see the top layer of our consciousness as being the here-and now layer, the bottom layer of our consciousness (our deep subconscious, maybe) as being our samskara layer and the personal-thought layer as being in the middle. Most of energy is spent in the middle layer trying to "control" what comes in and what comes up. The problem with that is:
If we use our mind's brilliance to develop thought patterns based on how everything and everyone needs to be for us to feel okay, we have limited our lives to serving our samskaras. Michael Singer, page 75
It is exhausting, totally a waste of time and more than a little cra-cra to spend all that energy serving our samskaras, attempting to make a world that is simply doing what it has been doing for billions of years work the way we think it should, just so we are constantly comfortable inside. Don't you think? We miss out on fully expereincing the here and now when we do that. What we need to do is dig down to the samskara layer and release those impressions once and for all. Of course, that won't be pleasant...if they were stuffed with pain they will be released with pain...but...think of the freedom we will feel in the long run. We will have all that brilliant mind energy free to do what it is meant to do: process this wonderful Life as it is so we can expereince it not as a controller of it ( which we could never be anyway) but a joyous participant and observer of what is.
How cool is that?
Hmmm! Well that is something to think about .
Michael A. Singer ( 2022) living untethered. (Chapter 15: The Brilliant Human Mind). New Harbinger/ Sounds True
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