Separating Mind From Consciousness

This is an in-depth lecture on how to separate the mind from your consciousness and how to let your consciousness be the master and let it be the guide rather than the other way around. Using true life stories from my journey.

Transcript

So let's just say for a moment that you've never experienced consciousness beyond the mind.

Some would argue it's not even possible to separate the two,

Mind from consciousness.

So as a meditator I'm here to tell you that it's 100% possible and today I'm going to give you a couple tricks and with these tricks you're going to learn how to not only separate the consciousness from the mind but you're also going to learn how to go into deeper states of meditation.

So let's say we start with just focusing on the gaps,

The gaps between the thoughts as you think as you go out throughout your day.

You must have noticed at some point in your life whether it's like sweeping the floor or washing the dishes or you know making your bed or anything like that you might have a felt yourself almost feel mindless to the point where you just can be able to do it without the mind working and thinking about this and that factor and everything like that.

It just becomes automatic.

And when you have these moments,

These gaps between the thoughts,

In Zen they call that a Zen moment,

Right?

It is a practice that those in the East and many in the West have picked up and have dove into because the release of the mind,

The tension of the mind,

Like I said,

When it's always thought,

Thought,

Thought,

Thought,

Constantly bombarded by thoughts after thoughts after thoughts and no breaks,

Then it's like walking on a tightrope.

There's always a tension involved when it's just the mind and it's always the mind.

And as Osho said and as I agree with him very much,

I say that you don't need to use your mind all the time.

Like when you sleep you don't use your legs,

Right?

You don't need your legs when you're sleeping.

You just lie down and sleep.

And there are times throughout your day where you don't need to use your mind the same as your legs.

You give them a break.

And this break becomes so blissful.

You become so pungent and so wonderful,

The release of the tension of the mind.

Some might argue that having a separate mind from your consciousness creates a schizophrenia in you.

You feel split.

But actually it's the opposite way around.

Whenever the mind thinks it's in control and your consciousness is a slave,

That's when you're schizophrenic.

That's when you become two.

But when consciousness is able to exist outside of the mind,

But with the mind in mind.

So when it's time for you to lie down and meditate,

Or sit down and meditate however you meditate,

Some people lie down,

Some people sit.

If you have no problems with falling asleep,

Then lying down is more comfortable.

Because with meditation,

If you haven't,

If you give effort into it,

That very effort can be a roadblock to you obtaining what us mystics really call real meditation.

Real meditation not only happens when the mind is still,

But it comes in the moments after the mind is still.

When you least expect it.

When you're not looking for it.

When you're completely empty.

And you're just an is-ness that's penetrating existence.

That's when meditation really starts,

Is that you'll feel it.

And it's a gap.

And the gaps get bigger as you practice more.

Like I said,

You can't put the effort in,

I mean you have to put the effort into meditating.

You have to say,

Okay,

I'm going to at first make a discipline about it.

So I mean discipline and disciple come from the same roots.

So a disciple is somebody that does something and they love to do it.

So it's not really a discipline.

When you really love to do something,

The discipline part kind of goes away.

You're devoted to it.

You love doing it.

You enjoy doing it.

So it's not a work.

It's more of a play than it is a work.

So like I said,

In the beginning,

Let the gaps come when you meditate.

Whether you're following the breath or counting or focusing on the end of your nose or doing the blue sky technique where there's clouds everywhere and then the clouds disappear and you're up in the blue sky all alone,

Existing and all the thoughts are gone and all the clouds are gone because clouds are just thoughts.

So there's many,

Many different techniques,

Whatever you feel comfortable for doing.

But just remember,

It's not work.

It's a play.

But yeah,

You have to be consistent with it in order for the effects to take place.

For some people,

You may not feel the effects of meditation for a month or two before you start feeling what I'm talking about by real meditation.

And you know it's real meditation.

One of the clues to let you into knowing that it's real meditation is that time kind of slows down.

It almost disappears.

You might think you've been meditating for 15 minutes,

Right?

And then you come out of your meditation and an hour passed by.

And you're like,

Wow,

Where did that hour go?

Right?

So the hidden thing that's happening while you're meditating that you don't realize what's happening is you're raising energy.

You're raising energy from the base of your spine up through your heart,

Through all your chakra systems.

The heart is the magical place.

Many say that that's where God exists inside of you.

And He's just waiting there for you to meet Him or Her,

Whoever you want to prefer to,

Whatever your preference.

It's just a word.

So it's waiting there for you.

And the more you meditate,

The more you raise your energy.

And like I said,

When I began meditating,

I didn't focus on raising energy.

It just happens with the continual growing consciousness.

As your consciousness grows stronger,

Then your energy raises upwards.

And another thing to keep in mind is that your awareness has to be sharp too.

Because you have to catch yourself.

Every time your mind starts going off on a tension,

Like you may be silent for a minute or two,

And then the mind just like rebounds and rebels against you.

But that will happen,

But that's okay.

So you just sit and watch it.

You just sit and watch the mind.

Don't add fuel to it,

But just sit there and watch it.

Let it dissolve.

Let those thoughts go.

And then focus again once on your breathing.

If you can go into complete silence,

Then that's nice too.

Right?

I mean,

I love meditating with music.

I think music is like a magical doorway to deeper states of meditation.

And some of the deeper states of meditation.

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As a meditator,

Let's say you've been meditating for about a few months.

You might get a glimpse of the first door of samadhi.

And samadhi,

Like I said,

Is what happens when time disappears.

And in a sense,

You disappear.

Because you're not there.

You basically dissolve into existence,

And existence dissolves into you.

I mean,

There's a saying that goes with the mystical world and the path of the esoteric.

And that is that there are two types of people in this world.

One is the emperor,

And the other is a beggar.

If you're not an emperor,

You're a beggar.

Now if you meditate,

And you get into this highest level of meditation called samadhi,

At least 51% of your energy has raised up past the heart chakra.

You may not see it,

You may not feel it,

You may not understand it,

But that's what happens.

Your energy raises all the way up into your throat chakra,

Into your third eye,

And then your crown chakra.

But what happens is that the energy that enters into the throat chakra,

That's the alignment with the first level of samadhi.

I mean,

That's what you want to have happen to you,

Is to raise as much energy as possible.

And don't be worried about those who say kundalini energy raising is dangerous.

If you're doing as I say,

And following my instructions,

You'll be just fine.

And you'll understand and gain a higher insight twice as fast as those who live in fear.

Fear is not the pathway or the doorway to God.

Love is.

And that's what we're teaching you while you're meditating,

Is to be loving.

Because love and meditation are two sides of a coin.

One side is meditation,

The other side is love.

But they're inseparable.

The more you meditate,

The more loving you'll be.

And the truth goes for the other way around.

The more loving you are,

The more meditative you'll be,

The more calm and more centered you'll be.

Even if you don't practice meditation,

If you're focusing on and being loving all the time,

Then it's just there.

The two go together.

So at first,

Experiencing samadhi is what they call satori.

It's basically a glimpse of being on top of the mountain.

So it's lightning in the middle of the night,

And it's dark,

And you can't see anything,

And you're on this path that's leading towards the mountain,

But it's miles away.

And a flash of lightning comes,

And it lights your way,

And you get a sense of hope and understanding that,

Hey,

The mountain's not that far away.

So it makes you feel like you're there,

Like you've accomplished something.

You've had an aha,

An awakening moment.

But really,

It's just satori.

It's just a glimpse of what's about to really come into your life and help you expand your consciousness.

And when you're in touch with satori and you're climbing the path,

Don't give up.

It's not that much further.

It just depends on the individual and how much they practice and how much they love doing it and how much they dive into this.

So really,

There's two more levels of samadhi.

And at first,

You won't know what level you're in.

So you may just be in the first.

You may raise your energy all the way up to the crown chakra,

The nirvanic center,

And really realize,

I mean,

When that happens,

You really disappear.

Nothing can be said about that level of samadhi because you're gone.

You disappeared.

There's nothing,

There's no you to experience anything.

But when you come back,

You're full of bliss.

It's the most wonderful feeling.

Way better than any substance or anything man-made could ever even come close to.

It's just a beautiful feeling.

But with those feelings comes responsibility,

Of course.

You'll have to just live a very,

I mean,

It's not a dull and boring life at all.

I skydive.

I surf.

I snowboard.

I skate.

I'm very active and I include meditation into all these little things that I do,

You know,

And make it a Zen moment in everything I do.

A little story,

Like,

One of the things that helped this all dawn on me was many years ago,

We went snowboarding in Colorado at Breckenridge.

So we were snowboarding at Breckenridge for three or four days.

And I think it was the last day that we were there.

And I went up to one of the steepest trails.

It was like a triple black diamond.

You know,

Super difficult ride down.

But you know,

I was a pretty good snowboarder.

You know,

Not too bad.

But anyway,

I got to the top of the mountain and I strapped my board in,

You know,

Put my goggles on,

My helmet,

My gloves,

You know,

Got all ready to go down the mountain.

And something told me to just,

You know,

Take a moment and thank God for this beautiful experience.

You know,

Being on top of a mountain is just something else.

Very few get to really experience this bliss that comes over you when you're that high and you can see all the other peaks.

So basically I sat down and I prayed and I said,

You know,

God,

This is so beautiful.

I'm so,

You know,

Glad that you let me experience this in my life.

And I said,

Why don't you ride this one down the mountain?

Use my body.

You take control and I'll just sit back and watch and you be the pilot and I'll be the co-pilot.

So anyway,

I did.

And boy,

I took off down that mountain like something came over me.

Like it wasn't me riding down the mountain.

It was something more than me because there was no fear for one.

Fear was completely gone.

And I flew down that mountain so fast and jumped off the cliffs and landed all the landings and you know,

Flying down the hill just so dang fast.

About halfway down there was a 20 foot kicker jump in front of me.

So I hit it and flew right over the thing.

I think my hat came off at that point because that's when I lost my hat.

I landed and I just kept on flying down the mountain just,

You know,

Not out of control or anything like that,

But just full of exuberance.

And it was a very exhilarating,

You know,

Experience.

But anyway,

I finally got to the bottom of the mountain.

It took about eight minutes to get from the very peak all the way down to the base camp where the lodge was.

I got to the bottom of the mountain and I said,

Oh my God,

That was so wonderful.

That was so beautiful.

I mean,

I was like,

God,

You really like to know,

You really know how to snowboard.

You're really good.

I'm just a pawn.

You're the master.

So that time at Brecklin Ridge came and went and my experience of fulfillment with this something else,

This essence that was more than me.

This was really my first experience of zen snowboarding,

I guess you could call it,

But it's just amazing to have something happen to you.

So you know,

I surf a lot still,

But I never did this with surfing.

I mean,

That's what I know of.

But after that day,

I was like,

I want to give a wave to God.

But I was always like,

Oh no,

I don't know if it's being selfish or not,

But it's like my wave,

My wave,

My wave.

But I didn't think about doing it until that first time snowboarding.

So we went snowboarding again a couple of weeks later.

And this time we were in New Mexico at Santa Fe Trail.

And we got to the top of the mountain.

And here I am thinking,

Okay,

Let's try to repeat what happened in Brecklin Ridge.

And I strapped on my straps,

Got my board locked in,

Got my goggles on,

Got my gloves on,

Put my helmet on.

I launched down the hill saying,

God,

You know,

You be the pilot,

I'll be the co-pilot.

You take control of my body.

Anyway,

Long story short,

I went about 20 feet and fell and landed flat on my face with snow up my nose and everything.

It was just like,

Whoa,

What the heck?

I'm like,

God,

You don't want to use my body?

You don't want to feel that right again?

And it didn't dawn on me until later,

But basically I came to the understanding that God doesn't like to do duplicates.

He's never made two humans the same.

God hasn't made two galaxies the same.

Everything's unique in this existence.

There's something different about every little thing.

And that gives existence its beauty,

Its depth,

Is that everything is different.

And we can't recreate something.

God likes originals.

So this is a Zen moment.

This is one of those moments that makes you realize that my higher consciousness can take control but you can't expect it.

You can't demand it.

So the trick is basically to not demand and not try to recreate.

Always do something new with everything you're doing,

Whether it's surfing or skydiving or driving down the road.

Take the route that's less driven sometimes.

Get the stress off your mind if it makes you feel better,

Makes you feel more blissful.

A lot of motorcycle enthusiasts have realized it long ago that it's a Zen feeling every time they get on the bike and ride through the countryside.

You don't have to think a whole lot.

You just basically become one with the bike and one with the moment.

And a feeling of Zen comes over you.

So what does this have to do with the gaps and everything?

Well,

It's just higher consciousness.

It's you existing as a higher consciousness.

When your consciousness is in control and your mind becomes the servant or you're the master,

Consciousness should be the master.

And it takes a little to get used to.

You can function out of your consciousness.

Many samurai have done that.

And actually in the Kendo world,

When you're studying the art of sword play,

The person who thinks usually is the one that dies.

Because if you think,

Then you're too slow.

You have to just move.

You have to just go and do it.

And whatever you train,

However you put into it is what will come out.

So if you train a lot,

Then you'll probably win the fight.

But if a superior samurai came up to you and challenged you to a duel,

The best thing you can do is try to sit there with no thought,

Without thinking,

And just react.

There was a story about one time this happened to a superior samurai.

He picked a fight with a drunken samurai.

And I think how the story goes is that the drunken samurai just acted all crazy and flailing his sword all over the place and cutting everything in his path.

And he got the superior samurai actually afraid of him because he thought the guy was crazy.

So anyway,

The inferior drunken samurai didn't really win the fight,

But he didn't lose his life either.

So anyway,

That's another story for another day.

So consciousness can be the master.

It's not being schizophrenic.

It's just being one total unit where consciousness is in control.

Your consciousness gives you a connection with a higher consciousness.

That's called the collected consciousness.

And the collected consciousness is when you're basically in touch with almost every being and everything around you.

You feel this oneness,

This is-ness between you and everything.

You can actually communicate through that consciousness.

And it's not using the mind either.

It's beyond the mind.

It's something that comes out of the blue.

And then after a collected consciousness is what they call the highest level of consciousness,

What is called cosmic consciousness.

And basically that is,

We're talking about the highest level of samadhi,

Nirvanic samadhi,

And growing and diving into that and just dissolving yourself into it.

Okay,

Well,

I think that's been enough for one little session.

I'd love to continue the story on and tell you more stories.

So give me some likes and tell others about my work if you like it.

It's been a pleasure talking to you and I hope to hear again or hope you hear me again.

All right,

Take care everybody.

Bye bye.

I'll see you in the next one.