Mind is Useful Only in its Orbit
The mind can be very useful and helpful in the work, though
as soon as it goes out of its orbit it becomes counterproductive.
The thing to watch with the mind is that we don't get
trapped or stuck in it. If we use it as an instrument and get good at using
this instrument that is fine, as long as we are free from it, that is we know that
we are the essence and the Being behind the essence, and the mind is not us it
is just an instrument, i.e. something that the essence and the Being can use.
With the mind as long as you live from the essence and the
Being and think by virtue of the work, essence, path and the Being and use the
mind as an instrument to help you in these endeavours and in life that is ok.
Conclusion
The problem arises when we live from our mind, if we can
only do things that our mind plans and programs and we can't surpass the
concepts in our mind and we can only move in our thinking and in our feeling
and actions according to the concepts, judgements, prejudices, beliefs etc. of
our own mind then we are in trouble, our mind then really becomes a jail, just
as Master Samael said that it is. So using the mind this way would be very counterproductive.
We have to use it to set ourselves free, if we use it to do this we are going ok.
End (493).
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