Delusional Mind

Understanding the nature of a delusional mind is one of the attributes of waking up. But it’s not the delusion of the world that one wakes up from, it’s the delusion of your own mind…

What is a delusional mind that runs your life? The delusional 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 delusional mind. To understand the delusional mind one must be aware of its attachments, desires, confusions, and the way the mind works. Without this awareness the puppet on string patterns prevail; certain disciplines turns one inward to see this. If what you’re doing doesn’t turn you inward, you’ll remain trapped to a delusional state of mind. This is why nothing from the outside truly changes a person because anything from the outside is part of the delusional mind. A delusional 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 delusional. 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 delusional view if there’s awareness of it. What this means is one has to develop mindfulness of what they’re doing as it’s being done so there‘s awareness of what’s being done. If you know what you’re doing as it’s being done, it leaves little room for the delusional mind to arise. Mindfulness is probably the most important discipline to develop as it anchors you in the moment of what’s being done. A delusional mind only occurs when one lives in the story of a past or future. These delusional mind made constructs keeps the delusion 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 delusional mind existence…