Can You Stop Your Mind For 2 Minutes?

What do I think about stuff ‘n things right now? What do I think?! People ask me what I think about the nature of reality and its spiritual dimension all the time and to be honest… the more I look inside peoples minds and the more I read and study what other people think as well… the more I realize we don’t really know anything at all?!

I think our sub conscious mind wants us to expand our view points to take on more perspectives than the one we have as our own so we get a better idea of the workings of the psyche… in this way we can better distinguish the different levels of operation and possibility within us. We are potentially multi faceted, multi dimensional beings and everything we think and remember is a mixture of fact and fiction… and apparently nothing is real anyway?! (I love that in the Matrix where the kid goes “Remember, the spoon is not real”).

Life is a paradox. I know that brick wall in front of me isn’t real. But I also know that I can’t go driving my car into it and expect to just carry on straight through it unaltered in some way. Just as I think we’re all One, yet I can’t nourish MY body by how YOU eat.

It’s always very interesting to me how people are bought up – especially when religion comes into it. And another conundrum comes up with this one too – we still haven’t really decided if the Universe is a happening of random events or a finely tuned operation where everything is in some kind of Divine and Perfect Order… or perhaps it just IS that it IS?! But I think that religion is a huge teacher – regardless of whether or not we were bought up suffocated by it or void of it… either way… we come to realize there is some driving force within us… that some choose to ignore, or don’t even recognize is there… and others turn their existence into a lifetime of spiritual quest to find the “why for” of it all. Either way the contrast and comparison provides a beautiful point of learning and growth that combines chaos and order as our teacher – but this teacher should only appear should we choose to open that door and see what might lie beyond it. And just knocking on that door and being open to receive what ever we may find beyond it opens us to the Spiritual, but not necesarily Religious, paradigm of our current era.

We are alive in unprecedented times where we have available to us all the teachings of all the lineages of all the cultures on our planet. We can make up our own minds and find what works for us based upon where we are in our growth and development and then we are free to change our minds, evolve our perspectives and develop our attitudes as we will. And further, not only does everything have some validity and fit in to the web of life on some level somewhere, but our societies are more open minded than they have ever been – which is saying something?!

It seems that hierarchy is the name of the game… and a lot of us don’t like that… but it also seems inescapable. Just as atoms lead to molecules which lead to cells… a cell cannot be a cell without its molecules and atoms, just as letters make up words which make up sentences which make up paragraphs… a paragraph can not be what it is without its counterparts comprising its wholeness. So it seems that as we evolve and grow, so too does our consciousness and growth and that we are on an ascending kind of wagon where the randomness and chaos occurs at the different levels of the hierarchical order.

I query as to the notion that “what goes up must come down”… so how long do we continue to ascend before we learn how to bring that energy back down effectively, or is it a continual process of going up, bringing energy down and going back up even further to bring down an even higher level? I’m still pondering that one too….

Our minds are so well un-controlled!! We either let them be controlled by religions and other people and institutions, or we let them just run rampant and control us anyway?! Just try sit still for 2 minutes and see how quite you can keep your mind for a full, whole 120 seconds. Unless you are an experienced meditator, even two minutes of concentrated nothingness will be challenging…. And that is a mind controlling YOU…. It needs to be the other way round for us ALL!!!

I’ve come to the point now… where I just want to get my own mind into a place of balanced and continual peace and acceptance of what is, and from there do the best I can to change what I can change and accept what I can’t change without getting too ruffled with the process.

So perhaps anything we make up that helps us grow to another level is perfect – so long as we “transcend it and include it”… or move through and beyond it, yet take the experience as valid for what it was – experience in the Now at the time. Nothing and no one is 100% wrong, there is always some validity in every perspective but hanging on to old thoughts, places, people, ways and things is something that prevents us from living in the Now.

We need to be at peace in the life that we are living now… for only if we are each working on our own inner peace and spreading that inner light and love around in all that we do… only then, I believe, do we have a shot at World Peace while we are in the skin encapsulated ego we find ourselves in today.

Beliefs are just thoughts we keep having… so if what you believe in constricts you or holds you back or confines you in anyway… then you need to change what you are thinking. It would appear that we are an evolutionary species and that we are evolving whether we like it or not… so it is only as we become conscious of our evolutionary growth and become aware that we are consciousness becoming aware of the evolution of our self that we get to consciously create the unfolding of that.

So what do I think about Stuff ‘n things? I think that it is time to check in with what we think and see if it is creating a peaceful inner environment or an unpeaceful inner environment…. and if it is the latter…. then its time to CHANGE IT NOW!