Your body operates by the same wisdom as everything in nature.
It knows all the secrets of the earth, sun, water, wind and the seasons...
Yet you listen to the mind.
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Mind is more familiar unfortunately. Plus mind’s truths are shiny, highly pleasure-centered, and give us the illusion of safety and control.
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Yes, that's right. But it's quite interesting how we only value these things (familiarity, safety, control) because we agree *in our minds* that those are worthwhile qualities. It's only a question of mental conditioning that we value such features in the first place.
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When one stops being dragged around by mental preferences about reality, it becomes evident that they could've been absolutely anything and we'd gotten used to them.
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Getting here seems to require actions beyond what the human mind is capable of offering.
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Oh yes. But it’s not at all so difficult or fatalistic as it may sound.
Fundamentally, it’s just the deep realization that the mind was never the one who was in charge of any real action; it was always merely the bookkeeper.
It can be realized through observing your body:
How much does the mind contribute to its vital processes (heartbeat & blood flow, digestion, even cognition)? Can the mind stop any of these processes by sheer will? If it can’t, how could it then be the one really in charge?
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