Understanding the nature of a confused mind is one of the attributes of waking up, but it’s not the confusion of the world that one wakes up from, it’s the confusion of your own mind…
What is a confused mind that runs your life? The confused mind manifests because there’s attachment to your thoughts. The first thought that arises about something doesn’t matter, it’s the attachment to the second thought that forms the confused mind. To understand the confused mind one must be aware of their attachments and desires, 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 confused state of mind. This is why nothing from the outside truly changes a person because anything from the outside is part of the confused mind. A confused 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 confused. Until this truth is seen, things have to stay as they are because nothing is being done to change it.
We can only go beyond the confusion 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 confusion to arise. Mindfulness is probably the single most discipline to develop as it anchors you in the moment of what is being done. A confused mind only occurs when one lives in the story of a past or future. These confused mind made constructs keeps the confusion alive. 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 confused mind existence…
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