as soon as we wake up, it begins - our world of bubbling thoughts.

We wake up, head to the bathroom and the dialgue has begun. Yet are we even thinking "i have to go to the bathroom"? -- are we present -- no - we have continued last night's dialogue in our mind.

Take note: the thoughts you have every morning is just a continuation of the dialogue that was processing before you fell asleep the night before.

The mind is a process. A process that goes nowhere in and of itself.

So now your sitting on the toilet - the bladder is emptying, there are sights and sounds, probably smells, and you miss it all. The mind has taken you somewhere else.

Is it any wonder humanity suffers so much, we miss our entire life this way.

It is interesting. We did not need our mind to tell us to pee, we simply did it. We don't need our mind to tell us to make tea, get our keys, etc. Yet the mind helps us in these tasks. Yet the mind, as such, is that obscuring process - that agency of linear time that usurps our connection to the eternal vertical time. It can be a great servant, but it is the lousiest of masters. Yet most of the time, the mind is our master and we (our truthful Self) are its slave.

And for what do we sacrifice our eternal truth? What are these thoughts, their substance? Opinions, fears, projections, some dreams, mainly useless rubbish, that we would get rid of in a New York minute if we knew how to.

The mind consists of our past conditioning, if it exists at all. I recently heard a lecture from the point of view that in truth, there is nothing of substance, called, the mind. The mind is like a crowd, a crowd of thoughts. Yet a crowd is just a group of people in close proximity, as soon as they disperse there is no more crowd. So it is only our mind and its capacity to creat order, that WE create the concept of a crowd. For the mind, there is a process of thoughts, that happen so fast, and we are so connected to them, that we think there is an actual entity there. But it is not true.

Beyond our attachment and the speed of the process, there is nothing there. And that is liberating. We are free, in truth, from the shackles of this burdensome machine. We simply need to learn how to slow it down so as to align it's process with our goal: Peace, clarity and Liberation.

So we can replace the habitual pattern of mind with a higher vibration through mantras, meditation, devotion and uplifting symbols. Then we can learn to observe its process with love and respect for its use to us, as a great servant. Then we will begin to associate more with the gaps in the thoughts, rather than the process itself. Between those gaps we exist in totality and clarity.

In meditation we observe this process and watch one thought after another come and go, wave after wave. If we remain on the beach watching the waves rise and fall we can stay unaffected. Yet we love the surf and we love to ride these waves of passion and thought. that is the difficulty isn't it? It seems so boring to simply sit and watch, we want to ride those waves. It is a hard habit to break! That is why it takes patience.

any THOUGHTS!?!