Libro que llegó a mi vida de un momento para otro. Por esas cosas del destino y al que le debo haber entendido muchas cosas.
Ahí van algunas cosas interesantes del primer capítulo "You are not your mind" como para conocer un poco del tema que toca y engancharse:
I trust that this book will find its way to those who are ready for such a radical inner transformation and so act as a catalyst for it.
I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
Thinking has become a disease. The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success i this practice; the degree of peace that you feel within.
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.
Make it a habit to aske yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? Feel the energy of emotion, don't let it take you over, because it usually suceeds.
One of the main tasks of the mind is to fight or remove that emotional pain, which is one of the reasons for its incessant activity, but all it can ever achieve is to cover it up temporarily. In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain.
Glimpses of love and joy or brief moments of deep peace are possible whener a gap occurs in the stream of thought. For most people, such gaps happen rarely and only accidentally, in moments when the mind is rendered "speechless".
Love, joy and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. But they are not what I would call emotions. They lie beyond the emotions.
Emotion literally means "disturbance".
The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain.
Real love doesn't make you suffer.
Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't dissappeared. It's still there on the other side of the couds.
So don't seek to become free of desire or achieve enlightment. Become present.
Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind, which is to say as long as you are unconscious, spiritually speaking. Talking primarily of emotional pain, which is also the main cause of physical pain and physical disease. Resentment, hatred, self-pity, guilt, anger, depression, jealousy, and so on, even the slightest irritation, are all forms of pain.
There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and disolving past pain.
