Have you tried in a conversation to have a totally open
mind, a mind that does not see right or wrong, a mind that does not attach to
one particular angle or way of thinking or of seeing things? A mind that does not
see likes or dislikes, interests or disinterests?
Quite difficult isn’t it? But if we succeed in doing so there is real freedom there!
So often we see something wrong because we think that we
know the right or better thing. If we don’t have the right or better thing in
our mind we won’t be able to see something as wrong, so still our mind will remain.
Sometimes we maybe right, well we think that we are, and then we unfortunately we feel we must focus on the right thing because otherwise the result will be inconvenient or technically incorrect. This though mostly applies with physical things such as the bus timetable, fixing the car, using the TV remote control etc. However, what we really think we are right about, can turn out that we are wrong. So why not have a totally open mind.
There is also lots of love in us when we have an open and
silent mind.
A mind that does not see problems, difficulties, money or
time is an open mind. However, we have to descend into the comparison of money,
time, difficulty etc. to decide sometimes. If we do it for the benefit of others
it is good, but then try go back to the open and empty mind and intimately try hard to live in that state.
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