you will come to see that the mind talks…

Page 13 you will come to see that the mind talks all the time because you gave it a job to do. You use it as a protection mechanism, a form of defense. Ultimately it makes you feel more secure. As long as that's what you want, you'll be forced to constantly use your mind to buffer yourself from life instead of living it. The world is unfolding and really as very little to do with you or your thoughts. It was here long before you came, it will be your long after you leave. In the name of attempting to hold the world together, you're really just trying to hold yourself together. You love page 16 once you clearly see the disturbed part then ask who is it that sees this? Notice is this inner disturbance? asking this is the solution to your every problem. The very fact that you can see the disturbance means that you are not it. The process of seeing something requires a subject object relationship. The subject is called a witness because it is the one who sees what's happening. The object is what you are seeing, in this case to enter disturbance. This act of maintaining object of awareness of the inner problem is always better than losing yourself in the outer situation. This is the essential difference between a spiritually minded person in a worldly person.

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