"Most people take the appearance of the snake as a rope to be reality.Acting on their misperceptions they think many different ways of killing the snake.They can never succeed in getting rid of the snake until they give up the idea that there is a snake there at all.People who want to kill or control the mind have the same problem,they imagine that there is a mind which needs to be controlled and take drastic steps to beat it into submission.If instead they generated the understanding that there is no such thing as mind,all their problems could come to an end.Cutivate the awarness " i am the all pervasive consciouness in which all bodies and minds in the world are appearing and disappearing , i am that consciouness which remains unchanged and unaffected by these appearances and disapperances ".When that understanding becomes firm the NON existent mind will not trouble you." (Q/A with Annmalai Swami in Living by the words of Bhagavan/David Godman)
kill the snake...what snake?
Posted - Feb 24 2011 : 04:03:55 AM
