Understanding the nature of a controlled mind is one of the attributes of waking up, but it’s not being controlled by the world that wakes one up, it’s the awareness of being controlled by your own mind…
What is a controlled mind that runs your life? The controlled mind manifests because there’s attachment to your thoughts. The thought that arises about something is inconsequential, it’s the attachment to the thought that forms the controlled mind. To understand the controlled mind one must be aware of its attachments, desires, confusions, and the way your mind works. Without this awareness the puppet on string pattern prevails. Certain practices turns one inward to see this. If what you’re doing doesn’t turn you inward, you’ll remain trapped to your controlled state of mind. This is why nothing from the outside truly changes a person because anything from the outside is part of the controlled mind. A controlled mind can’t fix itself and as long as it’s reaching for something on the outside, it remains trying to fix itself and thus it remains controlled. Until this truth is seen, things will stay as they are because nothing is being done to make it different.
We can only go beyond the contolled view if there’s awareness of it. What this means is one has to develop mindfulness of what they are doing as they are doing it so there‘s awareness of what’s being done. If you know what you’re doing as you’re doing it, it leaves little room for the controlled mind to arise. Mindfulness is probably the single most discipline to develop as it anchors you in the moment of what is being done. A controlled mind only occurs when one lives in the story of a past or future. These controlled mind made constructs keeps the control active. The present moment can be seen without making it a story even though it passes as quickly as it arises, but the past and future can never truly be seen without a story. Because of this lack of discipline to be present, most people live a controlled mind existence…
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