The Mind is not free

Chapter 1 : We agree to our prison.

The human mind is not free. It is not free of the things around it, it is not free of it's own thoughts. It is not even free of itself.

When a person is born they are totally engulfed by a system, by a way of life that they see. However not all people see

the same things. As the famous example goes, if you whisper somethign in someone's ear and take it down five

people in that same manner by the time it gets to the end it will be something totally diffrent then what it started out as.

Therefore all people see, they view things according to their own systems not according to others systems for they

do not know them. This has been the creation of conflict throughout humanity's short existance which I will discuss later.

Someone is always what we look to. We see that person as how we might want to be. But we can only see what it is they are projecting of themselves through

their various actions, not what is inside of them, not why they have chosen this action instead of that one. As a child when a mother

is upset at her child for not picking up it's toys, the mother is upset for that reason as well, but their are also reasons other

understandings that the mother has that they neglict to tell the child. Therefore the child only sees an angry mother

and begins to doubt itself to feel bad and pressured by the mother for a reason it can not understand at that point of it's life.

During the time that mom is sculding the child the child has made a mental agreement to take this punishment

and to feel the blame and it starts to blame itself as well for what it did. If the mother had explained to the child why it's course of action,

and it is VERY important for th emother to point it is the course of ACTION that the child has taken which the mother is upset with, not that the mother is upset at the

child himself. For if the mother says "I'm upset at you for doing this." The blame the suffering of that child starts all over again and that leads nowhere

but to self denial. However if the mother says."I'm upset that your toys are on the floor again." The mother has now made it clear she is not upset at the child but that the toys are on the floor,

This course of action would lead to a better understanding of what the issue was instead of the child agreeing that it is the mistake it sees the toys

on the floor as the mistake. Naturally this is where people start to take things personal, it is their view of what is being said around them and

agreeing to those views that is the cause of much suffering and despair.

Later in life people take all sorts of things personal. It is because of their views on whatever it might be. A man cuts you off while you are driving. Instantly you get

offended or upset and lash out in one way or another to that person. You are both upset at the action and at the person. You have now let one person

controll your thinking and how you feel and how you react. Everything about you at that moment is not what you wanted to do but it is a reaction

to what someone else has done because of how you agreed in your mind to take that action of the other person. You agreed to take it persoal based on your

views. So how does one change their views? By not basing them on pervious things. By not making an orginization or looking to others for your answers.

Do not say " well they are doing it this way an dlook at how they are acting I want to act that way to I want to be that way." Be yourself. Take a look at

yourself the next time you are angry or sad happy or depressed. Truly look into yourself at those moments of your life and discover in yourself why it is

that you are having those emotions. If you look into it truly most likly you will see that you agreed to let go. To let go of yourself and that led to your joy or your anger.

You let the moment controll you without understanding it. If you are at a stage that you can understand the moments of your emotions then you are on the

path best for you. But being as most are not, you will not see for the mind does not always want to say yes it was I who made myself angry it was them.

It is that old Blame Game which I will discuss later. The only way to change your views to change your agreements on thoughts and emotions

is to truly go into them and tulry see why you have agreed to them, to dive deep and see the reasons behind all of your actions. Let them not be selfish or of your ego but

of your heart and soul for others and in that you always get back what you give out.

More to come soon!