You Are Not Your Mind - Lecture

In this short teaching you will discover that you are not your mind. You've been taught to assume that you are, but the thoughts moving through your head are not you thinking, and the feelings you feel inside are not you feeling. In meditation you observe your thoughts and feelings, and recognize that they are coming from your mind, not you. This is a profoundly liberating and empowering realization to have.

Transcript

Hello and thank you for listening to this audio.

Today we're going to speak about the fact that you are not your mind.

You've been taught and you've been trained to assume that you are your mind.

That means that the thoughts you see moving through your head,

You assume is you thinking.

And the feelings that you feel inside,

You assume is you feeling.

But in meditation,

What you can discover is that although you watch the thoughts and you feel the feelings,

You are not the originator of them.

You are not thinking the thoughts.

You are not creating the feelings.

They are just arising in mind.

And so in meditation,

We watch the thoughts arise and we watch the feelings pass by.

But we don't assume that they mean anything about us.

And sooner or later,

We discover that they don't.

We discover that we are separate from our thoughts and our feelings.

We are watching them.

We are feeling them,

But they are not us.

Reviews

The speech is at a good pace, not very fast. Perhaps this is a great starting point to work on your reactions to external influences, to focus on things that are under your control.

I would have added that often thoughts and feelings were thrust upon us by others demanding that think and feel that way.
When if we pause through meditation, we find that they are really Not Ours. And our challenge, then, is to find out what ours really are?
Thank you for the presentation. Very thought provoking.
Blessings to you and all on this journey.
Warmly,,
Anne

Comforting

Thank you 😊

Then one begs the answer to: Who am I?

Thank you for sharing this with us Namaste, my friend

Short but powerful message!!!