Psychology of Enlightenment

SR No.: 001807
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chitrabhanu
Publisher: New York Dodd Made & Company
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Dhyan
File Size: 5 MB

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The Psychology of Enlightenment
fusion, indecision, and irresponsibility where the mind is in perpetual duality: to do or not to do, to be or not to be, to go or not to go. We must set aside some time each day to quiet the mind and allow the answers we have been groping for to emerge spontaneously.
When the mind is quiet, you can say with conviction, “I want to do it; I am going to do it; it is done." You see the end of the road even before you have started the journey; the task you begin is accomplished already in your mind. It is like traveling somewhere for the second or third time: You know what it will be like to land at the airport; who will meet you; and where they will take you. You enjoy a degree of mental awareness that permits you to see the goal beforehand. In other words, you have learned to rise to that level of awareness which embraces the whole of consciousness. From that level, you can perceive how life is evolving, how things take place.
The first step is to become aware that this body of ours is a combination of four basic elements, which we have called earth, water, fire, and air. Next, we ask ourselves what it is that animates this body so that it moves, speaks, sees, and feels? What is it that, when it departs, leaves the body to stagnate and decompose? One moment there is a beautiful human being who is communicating, planning, managing; and in the next moment, all the planning and communicating is over. What has departed? What is this life and death?
Once when my father and I were celebrating my birthday, he told me he had a little pain. So he lay down with
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