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Mindlessness
We have all heard of life-coaches telling us to be
mindful, live in awareness, but how many such coaches tell us to live mindlessly?
The very concept of mindlessness would make a normal person think that this
person is full of nonsense. How can one ever be mindless – our whole life is
focused on thinking, learning, and applying our knowledge which involves the
full functionality of the mind! So, why mindlessness?
Based on a limited understanding of true awareness
of body, mind and energy, many coaches use the term mindfulness to describe
awareness. In turn, people misconstrue this concept as the ‘here and now’
experience of say placing a chocolate in the mouth, then tasting, feeling and
perhaps hearing, smelling, and seeing it as well.
The way I see it – true awareness lies in
mindlessness, not mindfulness.
There is this story of the pompous professor who
went to meet a Zen Master to learn and then began lecturing the Master. The Zen
master poured him tea in a cup as he politely listened. “Stop” cried the Professor,
“can’t you see the cup is full and overflowing?” The Master replied, “So is
your mind!”
The new age concept of mindfulness benefits
practitioners, without imparting awareness to their students. The mindless
concept is ancient and was birthed and evolved from the teachings of the Hindu
Upanishads and Buddha – this concept has been practiced and perfected by the
ancient masters as the concept of shunya or emptiness, the void, or
mindlessness.
The state of no-mind or mindlessness is just the
opposite of stilling the mind -- it is getting beyond the mind. It is creating
such a distance between ourself and the mind that the mind becomes the farthest
star, millions of light years away, and we are just watchers. When the mind is
stilled we are the controllers.
Mindlessness transcends time and space. Through
mindlessness one can create one’s future and transform one’s underlying
beliefs. When one becomes thoughtless in meditation, that is the beginning of
mindlessness – the first step of going into the state of samadhi in meditation.
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