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Human mind
basically oscillates between fear and greed.
It continuously
moves from this extreme to that extreme and that extreme to this extreme.
The oscillation between the fear and greed is mind.
Please understand, it’s like a,
if I have to give an example of
a web camera.
Web camera is here,
this end and that end;
that camera continuously moves to this end to that end
looking this corner to that corner.
That camera is consciousness
and the movement from this end to that end is called “mind”.
Your consciousness is
“attention”.
When it moves from the fear and greed and greed and fear,
the extremes,
“that movement” only is called as mind.
As long as the movement is there, highest possible coherence does not happen in you.
Highest possible coherence happens
when that consciousness just stays without oscillation.
When that consciousness
stays in restful awareness
then the highest possible coherence happens in your system.
How that consciousness can stay
without jumping between those extremes.
Whenever you are,
your unconsciousness pulls you towards the fear extreme,
consciously
slap it with greed then it will come to the center.
When the unconscious was rushing toward the greed,
consciously slap it with fear it will come to the center.
Whenever your fear is awakened, you forget greed,
you forget about your future.
I have seen people when they get into the fear,
they forget about their possible future and do more and more nasty things, get into big mess,
which I know for sure many people are doing now.
They have the fear that one mistake which they did
is going to finish them off.
But that fear makes them forget about the possible future they can have
and the greed disappears
about the future and do more and more messy things
and get into deeper and deeper troubles.
Instead of one crime,
now they will have to face hundreds of crimes.
That is the
unconscious flow of mind.
Don’t get into that mess.
Same say whenever you are caught in greed,
you forget about the fear and you do some foolishness.
Only after that you even remember
the side effects and after affects.
So the greed, when it takes over you unconsciously, slap your unconscious, consciously with fear
it will come to the center.
When the fear takes over, consciously slap it with the greed, it will come to the center.
Being in the center
suddenly raises you to the highest possible coherence.
That is what I call “niyamaha”.
So whether it is related to
non-violence
or non-stealing
or non-greed
or truthfulness or living like god, any vow, any law, any
flow whatever may be,
please understand, whatever it may be,
when the fear takes over slap it with greed,
when the greed takes over slap it with fear
so that you are in center continuously
and experience the highest coherence.
What Buddha calls as “middle path” is exactly this.