Page 63 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 4

MEDITATION IS NOT ENOUGH
other words doubt and faith are all just nothing more than thought. Neither has anything to do with who you truly are. Doubt and faith are NOT clarity. They are both the minds pathetic substitute for the absence of clarity.
When my friend begins to doubt that he and other "normal people" can never get out of the rut of mind, he is reinforcing things that are untrue.
1. First:thatanyonenotboundinthemindishigher or gifted in some unusual way.
2. Second: that the mind is powerful. Truthfully it only has the power that one endows it with in the mind. Mind is a self appointed despot.
3. Third: that what goes on in the mind actually stands as real.
It is but proper that we should test these
assumptions. If we are in fact who we think we are, then consider who we thought we were years ago, or even yesterday. At that time we had the same confidence in those ideas that we have in the ones today. Yet they don't exist anymore. In fact life has
shown us that they were utterly false. We may think
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