Excerpts from Student Of Life -01- Mind Training.

"Life is all about learning. Life is beautiful, when we realise it". 

One must KNOW first, TO SEE, TO UNDERSTAND, TO EXPERIENCE, TO REALISE. 

We all behave according to our Mind. Mind suggests based on our perceptions, beliefs, past experiences, illusions, ideas. To SEE reality, one must remove the goggles( perceptions, illusions, etc).

Mind is a great tool , which can be our friend or an enemy,  based on the training given to it.

Below is the excerpt from Student of life. We may all get a query, " Who is Student of life? ".

Just like a medical student, who learns medicine, just like an engineering student, who acquires the knowledge of engineering, in chosen stream, just like all other students, " A STUDENT OF LIFE  LEARNS LIFE and THERE IS NO PARTICULAR PERIOD THAT HE COMPLETES HIS COURSE, HE KEEPS ON LEARNING TILL THE END OF LIFE AND LIFE, IT HAS NO END. From  every experience he learns, he acquires knowledge, he understands reality. He realises what is real and what is not.

In this , its been discussed about Mind Training.

Talking about being non organised, lazy, he said, " Its not about memory thing, its about training given to our mind". That it is okay to be lazy or non organised, its our own suggestion. If nobody reminds us, it will continue. Possibly 2 things can happen. One, somebody will do and scold us for not doing or two we counter them back with their mistakes that they have done,  for reminding us, for pointing our mistakes, so that its so strong, they will never remind us again. Both the things are dangerous, there is no learning.

We do not know the fault and where it is, its not the issue of fixing. We are suggesting mind that its okay,we still can manage. So we learn to manage people and not the issue, NOT FIXING the issue.

Managing is different and fixing is different, not knowing the issue.  It is not managing the issue, its managing people. This applies everywhere in our life.Its always I feel, I feel, kind of, wrongly trained mind, unable to see the truth. We should balance our mind , should feel as well as move with facts. Ultimately, its mind,  not heart. Soul or heart is different from mind.

For survival, we need logic, analytics, food. Food comes from work, work comes from logical understanding. All needs to deal with others, say from labour to ruler. All needs to deal with people.

We are social beings, not stand alone entity, we are interdependent. So we need to learn people skills, how to talk, how to communicate by understanding others.  All are not alike, only a few are. We need to live with those whom we don't love, feel or connect. We are dependent for external things.

We are not for internal things, for internal growth or for shedding blocks. We are not dependent on external things for internal peace. We should not be affected by external environment. We should be affected only by internal mind, which is continuously talking to us, judging based on past feelings. It seeks those. We are affected by that  and seek those outside , external. How can we? We need to find it, if we wanna match it, this is me, so we wanna find like me. Then we will become happy, but soon you will find , neither we or they are the same, because mind never stays alike . It gets bored by monotonous things. It needs entertainment always.

 That's why saints have developed different methods to cool off. Developed ability to stay away, stay in pure form of mind without prejudices.

*Then we get strength , full strength, the power , confidence comes within.

*We don't need anyone advice also, we can spot egos, we can spot gestures.

*We can understand who are the cheaters, we are like awake.

*Even if we don't know , we could know whom should we ask, where to find, its not that whom we feel we ask them .

*We go and ask appropriate person, that means, we know who is appropriate.

 So that type of mind only comes when we know what is peace or when we identify yes this is the state called non indulging mind. Now we are indulgent. We are seeing through indriyas we are seeing through perceptions. We are not seeing as it is. When we are not biased, then only we can see it.

When we talk to some one , we stay away, we observe them like a picture. So we can see their eyes, their gestures, hand movements, the way they sit, the way they use words, we don't become impulsive.

We should not be making comments. We should be observant, then only we know how they are. We are non attached. The state of being Non attached is called Sanyasi. He don't go to jungle. He don't indulge in to what others are doing with mind.  He stays calm, non attached in to his being. It does not mean he becomes insensitive, in fact he would become compassionate, he does things for the needful, he can know who is needy, because he can know it , he can see it what is happening, others cannot as they are indulged, they judge it .

That is mind training.

All should be Sanyasi so that

*We can love people,  we can understand people.

* We can live peaceful as we can give space to all, because we are non indulgent.

* We don't accumulate more than we need.

*We don't speak bad words to hurt. We are considerate to the needy and help.

* We can stay positive, because faith increases 1000 times.

So all those things happen when we could know that we are not dependent on mind for our survival.

There is life beyond mind also. There is heart. Mind is only an operator. Its interface for heart. 

It has virus in it. What to, what not to , it doesn't understand. So when it is virus free, it speaks heart's language. So its same as heart. Then it reaches others.

People say "Wow, it reaches, I can understand you, ONLY YOU, it reaches me" .

It comes with practice, not just like that. It needs lots of practice .

What is that practice?

- It is non indulgence, non reactive, having faith inside, of course with the touch of lord.