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Mind Attacks Emotion Defends - (4159)

Here is a good teaching from m.m.m which rings very true in practical life, in very, let's say special moments.


"The mind attacks and the emotion defends".


The mind usually always attacks. When we are in the mind, with the wheels of the mind churning we are inevitably going to end up in attack mode. The mind usually always protests and complains and that is very close to attacking. 


When the consciousness or the work or the understanding of the heart are not accessible the mind takes over and starts attacking, even as objectively and truthfully as it can.


The emotion is the one that defends. We defend what is close or dear to us. The emotion is what is deeper in us so when what is deep in us is threatened, the emotion is always activated. Our image could be very dear to us for example.


We all obviously take our life emotionally because it is deep and dear to us. What agitates the mind and produces an attack of the mind is not really so deep and important to us. It is rather just a mental position or mental pattern attached to an ego that has become annoyed. 


There is a difference between attacking and defending and a difference between mind and emotion. To defend is to keep things as is and not allow harm, but to attack is to change, modify and often defeat. Attacking is karmic but defending is not.


Attacking can back fire and lead to being attacked via a counter attack but defending can be successful or not. When successful, an attack is deflected but if not successful, an attack causes harm. Still the harm can be repaired. 


What is good about defending is that if we defend ourselves consciously (which implies a kind of emptiness and no-reaction) we can receive something for our consciousness. This does not happen with attacking. Because the mind, ego and personality are too active to engage the consciousness.


In any case it is good to know how to defend oneself physically and psychologically. I would definitely say more psychologically because that is what we encounter every day. 


Psychological defence is really non-identification, separation from the subconscious and the transformation of impressions. All of which are conscious actions.


Often defending mechanically against an attacker can mean the start of a war. Sometimes it is not useful to start a war and sometimes something of a war just has to be, but not a silly egoic war but an interaction managed and solved with a higher ethic or a higher state of consciousness or solved even by magical means. 


End (4159).

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