It is because of your mind you heard of a word called spirituality. Yes? It is because of your mind that you are able to understand what I am saying to you right now. So, don’t make an enemy out of someone who is your friend. Please look at your life and tell me, is your mind your friend or enemy? You are who you are only because of your mind, isn’t it so?
You made a mess out of yourself, that’s up to you. So, don’t talk about the mind, just look at the inadequacy with which you are trying to handle it.
Without any grasp or understanding over something, if you try to handle it, then it will become a mess.
So, how can you stop this mind? You have gotten yourself identified with things that you are not. The moment you identify yourself with something that you are not, the mind will go on nonstop.
If you disidentify with everything that you are not, you will see the mind will just be blank and empty. If you want to use it, you can use it; otherwise it will simply be empty.
That’s how it should be, it has no other business to be any other way. But right now, you have identified yourself with so many things that you are not.
Just see how many things you are identified with, starting from your physical body. So many things you are identified with and you are trying to stop your mind, trying to meditate – it won’t work. Either you dismantle your identifications or life will do it to you.
Whatever you identify yourself with, when death confronts you, it all drops, isn’t it? So, if you don’t learn any other way, death will come and teach you that this is not it.
So, you need to disidentify yourself. Every day just spend 10 minutes in the morning and see what are all the things that you are identified with, which are actually not you. You will be surprised to see in how many ridiculous ways and with how many ridiculous things you are identified.
Just mentally break all the things around you in your house and see, you will know all the things you are identified with.
Little things, big things, your own house, your family, everything, mentally just break them and see. All the things that hurt you, you are identified with them obviously.
Once you are identified with something that you are not, the mind is an express train that you can’t stop. Do what you want, it won’t stop. So, you put the mind on full steam and you want to apply brakes – it doesn’t work like that.
You must take your leg off the throttle first, before you can apply the brake of any vehicle.
Courtesy: ishafoundation.org