Originally Posted by sliccy
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The law of attraction is really our mind. So yes you are having to trick it so that you are using your mind as the tool it is intended for (you are in control of your mind)rather than the mind taking control of you.
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This is great!
I have heard this before that you are not your mind, and the real "you" is in control of what you think. When I read it this time I was stunned for about 2 minutes just thinking about it's simplicity, it totally put everything into perspective. Thank you! |
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Sometimes it's so simple it's difficult to understand.
I like to look at it simply as follows:
Who am "I"?
- The cells in my body have died and been replaced many times since I was born, but "I" have always existed and observed this happening.
- My emotions come and go, but "I" observe this happening and "I" am still the same "I" that existed before the emotion arose as "I" am after.
- My memories are simply experiences from the past and "I" can observe any memory "I" choose.
- "I" can observe my thoughts coming and going, yet "I" am still the same "I" that existed before the thought as "I" am after.
Therefore "I" cannot be the physical body, "I" cannot be the emotions, "I" cannot be the memories and "I" cannot be the thoughts. "I" am simply the observer of all these things and "I" never changes. This is my True Self... the unchanging observer.
Once this is recognised we can choose to let the negative emotions go, let the negative memories go, let the thoughts go, and come to understand who we truly are.
The mind (our unconscious and conscious thoughts) cannot be our True Self, but ego makes us believe that we are the thoughts (and the emotions and the physical body) and masks the True Self from recognition.
The ego is our attachment to things in the universe. In vedic teachings, the ego is called Ahankara (or Ahamkara) where Aham is the True Self and Kara is anything in the world. Freeing ourselves of these attachments (there's a buddhist concept for you!) allows us to connect with our True Self. Hence, meditation is a good practice for being free of the thoughts and the control of the mind and that occasional glimpse we get (sometimes scary at first) of being out of our body and a part of the whole universe, completely at peace, completely blissful, or however you want to describe it, is the recognition of BEing our True Self.
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But regarding the tree, are you saying even though there might be no brain, mind, or whatever it is simply some sort of different intelligence...something alternative? Or perhaps it's even all three, intellectual, emotional, and presence? I am not sure I fully understand
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E=mc^2 (Einstein's equation for energy and mass)
What that basically tells us is that Mass and Energy are directly related, or in simple terms, all mass is energy.
We know that the energy binds together to form the physical universe we see, and quantum physics has shown that sub-atomic particles have something called quantum entanglement, where a particle in one place of the universe is connected to another particle in another place of the universe (local experiments have proven this over a distance of several miles). This clearly shows that all energy is connected and we are not just bound into single entities.
As such, the energy of our physical bodies, our memories, our thoughts (for they are all energy)... everything is connected with the energy of everything else in the Universe.
This can be labelled how we like... "At One", "One Consciousness", "One Intelligence"... even "God" if you like. We are all part of the other... We are all One.
So is it something "alternative"? How can you have an alternative to something that is everything; something that is All.
At least that's the way I look at it.
Hugs
Giles
p.s. Sorry if all that was a bit heavy.
