Comments on: The Mind’s Role is NOT to Control External Reality http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/the-minds-role-is-not-to-control-external-reality/ A Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Enlightenment, and Unconditional Love Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:06:25 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Simon http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/the-minds-role-is-not-to-control-external-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Simon Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:40:14 +0000 http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/?p=60#comment-90 Hi Ariel - I followed your link across from Zimbio, which I've just joined. I call my own blog 'the secret of life' and this article pretty of yours much sums it all up, I think. Sounds like I'll have to check out 'The Untethered Soul' too. As you say, we set our minds this impossible task and then get all upset when they can't deliver. What we really need to do is to give our minds a break and experience life as it really is, with all its so-called 'imperfections'. Our minds just get in the way of our natural state of bliss. I sometimes use the analogy of someone grasping at reeds on the riverbank to stop him being carried away by the current. He thinks he's saving himself from drowning, but in reality what he needs to do is let go and just let the current carry him. The river is life. The river is bliss. It is our desperate minds which are grasping at those straws. Simons last blog post..<a href="http://secretoflife.typepad.com/the_secret_of_life/2008/07/the-door-to-the-garden.html" rel="nofollow">The Door To The Garden</a> Hi Ariel – I followed your link across from Zimbio, which I’ve just joined. I call my own blog ‘the secret of life’ and this article pretty of yours much sums it all up, I think. Sounds like I’ll have to check out ‘The Untethered Soul’ too.

As you say, we set our minds this impossible task and then get all upset when they can’t deliver. What we really need to do is to give our minds a break and experience life as it really is, with all its so-called ‘imperfections’. Our minds just get in the way of our natural state of bliss.

I sometimes use the analogy of someone grasping at reeds on the riverbank to stop him being carried away by the current. He thinks he’s saving himself from drowning, but in reality what he needs to do is let go and just let the current carry him. The river is life. The river is bliss. It is our desperate minds which are grasping at those straws.

Simons last blog post..The Door To The Garden

]]> By: Jeffrey http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/the-minds-role-is-not-to-control-external-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Jeffrey Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:07:23 +0000 http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/?p=60#comment-70 No worries. :) That book is probably the most eye-opening books I've read. I've been spreading the word about it to everyone I know. I feel like it's an extension of Eckhart Tolle's work, but in a language that is very simple and clear. Keep up the great work on the blog! No worries. :) That book is probably the most eye-opening books I’ve read. I’ve been spreading the word about it to everyone I know. I feel like it’s an extension of Eckhart Tolle’s work, but in a language that is very simple and clear. Keep up the great work on the blog!

]]> By: Ariel Bravy http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/the-minds-role-is-not-to-control-external-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Ariel Bravy Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:53:35 +0000 http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/?p=60#comment-69 Thanks Jeffrey. Great idea actually. You're right. That book definitely was the inspiration for this post and there's even more to it than what I described here. I'll add the citation. Thanks for checking up on that. :) Thanks Jeffrey. Great idea actually. You’re right. That book definitely was the inspiration for this post and there’s even more to it than what I described here. I’ll add the citation. Thanks for checking up on that. :)

]]> By: Jeffrey http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/the-minds-role-is-not-to-control-external-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Jeffrey Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:24:34 +0000 http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/?p=60#comment-67 Great post, Ariel. I dig your blog. However, I couldn't help but notice that many parts of the text is either verbatim or paraphrased from the book "The Untethered Soul" by Michael A. Singer (2007). http://www.untetheredsoul.com/ As a big fan of the TUS book, I couldn't help but feeling as if the post was a summary of the book's concepts. In particular, the parts about the mind's job, the thorn metaphor, defending your model of the world. Yet I didn't find any citation of the source. Perhaps you forgot to cite the book? Great post, Ariel. I dig your blog. However, I couldn’t help but notice that many parts of the text is either verbatim or paraphrased from the book “The Untethered Soul” by Michael A. Singer (2007). http://www.untetheredsoul.com/ As a big fan of the TUS book, I couldn’t help but feeling as if the post was a summary of the book’s concepts. In particular, the parts about the mind’s job, the thorn metaphor, defending your model of the world. Yet I didn’t find any citation of the source. Perhaps you forgot to cite the book?

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