Be the Michael Jordan of your mind. Be in the present moment. Be the enlightened. Your mind doesn’t have you–You have your mind.
So when you are present. And right now I’m present walking down the street. And there are some beautiful rose bushes around me, and beautiful houses and trees, and there are birds in the background. Can you hear that? There is a squirrel crossing the street. It’s amazing how they walk. It’s almost like a jumping dance or something.
There is a lack of the mind in it. Just a beingness to it. Stillness. Quietness. Content-ness to it. It’s early in the morning sunday, so not many people are stirring yet. It has been light for forty minutes.
And there’s nothing really to do. Just take it in, the beauty of it all. And so, I am just trying to help develop that distinction. Of what being in the present moment feels like.
And, so I will introduce some mind function.
Enlightened–Be the Michael Jordan of Your Mind
I was flying back to Chicago and I fell asleep on the plane, and I awoke. And I felt all the energy around me, the plane vibrating and the people, all the stuff around was so intense inside of a plane. To wake up into that. I became aware of everything and simultaneously that I was in this plane, a mile high, or however high they fly, going five hundred miles an hour, with a seat belt on.
I awoke in a panic. Not enough to be foolish or make a fool of myself but I felt my heart leap in my chest. And I grabbed the the arms of the chair and took whatever, two or three seconds, to remind myself, “Oh yeah I do this all the time.” This is normal.
So the fear crept up because there was a moment where I wasn’t calming myself.
Your Mind is Trying to Protect You
So in the mind state, it seems sometimes that the reason the mind is on edge, is because it is trying to solve problems. It seems that the mind’s function seems to be to protect you in some sense so it’s looking around trying to figure out, where is the nearest blemish to me, at this moment? Because I need to spot that blemish and try to remove it, in order to reduce the risk to my body.
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