Zen tale: The mind, and its ruminations, compared to our soul, and its truthfulness
@innertalks (22274)
Australia
November 27, 2024 6:29pm CST
A student of the esteemed old Zen master, Artur Respozki, asked him about his mind, which was always thinking thoughts, and then, like a cow, it would continually chew over these thoughts, and ruminate on them too.
The master smiled, and said nothing right then, and now, but later, when he found this student, seated on a stone wall, in the compound, of his Zen Monastery, he said to him:
"Truth supports you always, as this wall is doing for you right now, but ruminating thoughts never support you, but just lift you away from your inner truth, distracting you from truth, and filing you with hot peppers of thought, that you feel as hot, so think they have substance to them, when they never do."
"You need to connect to your soulself, by living from God's love in you, rather than just remaining connected to your mindself, and so living more for your lower self, than from your higher self."
"You will hear then the voice of your indwelling soul, as it is being guided by its connection to God too, when you are not just living from your mindself, and its connection, solely just to the world, and its worldly ways."
"Do not just chew on thoughts from your mind, live from the guidance from your soul."
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"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
This is an apt quote from Saint Augustine.
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@Shiva49 (26877)
• Singapore
28 Nov
The mind becomes fickle if it is tied to our physical body.
When we age, the body drags the mind down too and we become morose and aloof.
A firm connection to the soul keeps the mind independent of the constraints of the body.
Life becomes an enlivening journey until we breathe our last here and hopefully beyond this shore.
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@innertalks (22274)
• Australia
28 Nov
Yes, we do need to try to live a greater, and large life, than that which our mind alone plans for us, when it tries to divert us into applying all of our energy into what are mostly worldly pursuits, and wasted efforts, that at the end of the day, leave us with nothing much of substance, when living the right experiences, guided towards us from our soul, are setting us up for a life in the afterlife too.
We can take this gained wisdom with us, as when we leave this realm, we take the benefits gained, I would hope, from well-lived experiences involving love, and truth, and so we leave with an expanded wealth of consciousness growth too. Expanded consciousness attaches itself to our soul, and so is never lost, per se.
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@innertalks (22274)
• Australia
30 Nov
@Shiva49 Yes, we, and our world, are all on a collective journey together, and no one should try to go it alone, as there are always consequences, from ignoring our position in the whole.
@Shiva49 (26877)
• Singapore
29 Nov
@innertalks When our minds are focused on worldly issues, we become selfish and pursue material objects we leave behind. Life is a wasted effort that does little justice to our inborn talents.
A soul connection and influence will help us gain a better perspective on life. Then, it will dawn on us that we are on a collective journey that could well continue hereafter.
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@innertalks (22274)
• Australia
28 Nov
Yes, it is no good to follow half-baked, or not fully thought over, thoughts.
