Came across this quote by Mooji and did not or still - (because I haven’t met him) do not know what he meant by it exactly:
"Don't let the mind set the stage for your life because it will always be a limitation"
~ Mooji
However, as I was reflecting back on that sensory overload, that overwhelm and all the stress of it …
"The map is not the territory"
~ Alfred Korzybski
Mind as a map i.e. Map as mind’s summary of Life, Universe and Everything ….
When we are convinced of the rightness of our maps and
identify with it, then our minds start to try to dictate what the consensus view of reality should be and further to try to control, organize it, competing with other maps for the place/hierarchy in the “Sun”.
But this in a group situation sets the stage for the
“kingdom of confusion of tongues”, where everyone speaks the same language yet do not understand each other.
A very claustrophobic situation for me anyways, where as if all the air-space had been sucked out, creating a “frozen” image/version of reality one should then have to be molded, boxed into.
Is this what Mooji meant by mind setting the stage for your life? Don’t know.
But according to my map – this is how I understand it. (Contradiction – I know).
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Tolle had said something like
“The whole phenomenal existence unfolding in vast spaciousness”.
Well, when ‘you’ step out of the stage-set of mind maps and enter another group, where the PRESENCE of vast Silent and Still SPACIOUSNESS sets the stage, what a blooming relief!
With the map out of the way - so much room to move, so much room to be yourself, whoever ‘you’ are - and spacious still silence enabling one to look and listen, to observe connections to and/or between things …
To me it felt like leaving the mental map world and entering the territory.
(where in a group setting "all my planets lined up").
P.S.
Which reminds me …
Was this self-conscious moment his unwillingness to leave the “territory” and enter the expected “mind map world”?:
From 3:26 to 4:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPiK...onalGeographic
What did that bird in that moment of silence tell him – if anything?