Stepping Back

You don't have to fix the mind. You just have to take a step back and be the one who is noticing.

Michael A. Singer

If you have spent any time at all in the "labatory of soul research" as Yoganada referred to meditation and inner contemplation you have come to see just how cra-cra the personal mind can be.  It is like a manic street performer, screaming for our attention, "Over here!  Over here!  Look  what I am doing over here!" and man we go...we use this amazing mind to follow the crazy everywhere it takes us. We focus on this tiny spec of "me", which is only a concept, right?, at the  exclusion of all the other things we could be using this mind to focus on. Then when we do not like what we see, we say, "Hey mind!  Fix this." We ask a very unstable and disturbed mind to fix  the mind.  Huh? We end up creating  an even  more neurotic and unstable mind when we do that.  

We do not have to fix the mind! 

What we have to do is step back and away from the crazy and observe what is going on.  Step away from the mind and simply notice what it is doing. As soon as we step back and  observe...we realize we are not that which we are observing.  We realize we are not the crazy mind...we are just observing it.  We begin then to lose that attachment and overidentification with it...we become "less crazy" , we become less "me" focused.  We begin to see and experience more than what we have been narrowly focusing on all our lives.  There is freedom and liberation in that.  That is what yoga gives us.

Singer refers to it as a trap door that sets us free.

Stepping back and becoming the objective observer of our mind is the first and biggest step to freedom.

All is well!

 Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( July 29, 2024) Stepping Back fromthe Personal Mind. https://tou.org/talks/