Something very important we can learn by taking care of children, which is essential in relationships in general, is to be able to observe the mind acting in another person without being affected by i
I always struggle to understand (may be it is not something you can intellectually understand?) that my mind is a separate thing. I can see that I am not the mind but it is my mind, right? Similarly others will feel like it is their mind and so on. Is it all one mind? Is there a good analogy to understand this?
Other question is about the sense of I. When you say that I can choose not to identify with my mind, that sense of I is also coming in my mind. I can pretend to practice this once or twice in the morning but everything seems to happen inside the mind so it is hard to maintain the distinction.
The mind is part of the material energy, but it appears as one for each living entity. You can imagine something like a chatbot. Technically is just one, but each time one logs in, it opens a new and private session.
Thank you for the article, Prabhu jee.
I always struggle to understand (may be it is not something you can intellectually understand?) that my mind is a separate thing. I can see that I am not the mind but it is my mind, right? Similarly others will feel like it is their mind and so on. Is it all one mind? Is there a good analogy to understand this?
Other question is about the sense of I. When you say that I can choose not to identify with my mind, that sense of I is also coming in my mind. I can pretend to practice this once or twice in the morning but everything seems to happen inside the mind so it is hard to maintain the distinction.
Can you please share some light into this?🙏
The mind is part of the material energy, but it appears as one for each living entity. You can imagine something like a chatbot. Technically is just one, but each time one logs in, it opens a new and private session.
Prabhuji very great article
I like the last point at every moment we have a choice of listening to our mind or not . Thank you prabhu ji for this amazing article
Very clear and helpful Swami!