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Originally Posted by Iamit
Have you ever asked yourself the question. What is it in you that regards your mind as an enemy? Could it be your mind itself that regards itself as such? Why would it do that? Just what is going on?
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The mind is what it is. To consider the mind as the enemy makes no more sense than to consider the physical body as the enemy just because it is limited and sometimes does not function effectively.
Many people on the human journey only know the mind. But there comes a stage where we go within and we begin to realise that we are not the mind. The fact that we can observe thoughts shows that what we are is separate from these thoughts. We then realise that we have very little control of our thinking processes. And so we begin the process of learning to master the mind. This is the stage where we might consider mind as the enemy, because we are struggling to find stillness and the mind resists stillness.
With practice we learn to still the incessant internal mental chatter. Eventually awareness rests in consciousness rather than thought, and we begin to use the mind as a creative tool. And what a wonderful tool it is.
Peace.