I’m starting to find all these tricks the mind plays on me. For this you have to be really aware. You have to notice when the mind has started playing games with you, when it has started creating disturbance within you.
Any time the mind is being used, it just flows. There is nothing like the mind. It’s absolutely amazing. It’s the most powerful device known in the universe. If the intelligence is using the mind, the mind becomes a part of the universal intelligence. Then the mind vanishes, just like a droplet vanishes in the ocean. But the intelligence is still there.
When the mind separates itself, it starts creating a division around itself. It starts creating disturbance. The entire flow of the universal energy is blocked. Now the mind has started using you. It has become the master. It is calling the shots on what you should do, what you should not do, how you should behave. And it gives you instructions in a very annoying way. It just starts screaming.
I didn’t want to go to the gym. I didn’t know that, but my mind was telling me, “Hey, you should go. It’s been so long. It’s been three days. Today is the fourth.” My mind was trying to motivate me. Now this very motivation is proof that I don’t want to do it. Why else would my mind need to motivate me?
It works the other way too. I was taking my dog out for a walk. She’s very picky. She’s not a walking dog. She enjoys chilling at home doing nothing, so taking her out is a bit of a challenge. As I was putting the leash on her, I noticed I was demotivating myself. “Leave it. Let her live her life. Why do you have to take her out? Just let her be.” I heard those voices. But why were they there? Because I really wanted to take her out. It’s as simple as that.
The mind is almost always on the opposite side of what you actually want to do. It’s very subtle. I won’t say it’s directly against you. But if there is any sort of thinking going on, it is the mind.
If you’re thirsty, you just get up, go and drink water. There’s no thinking. But that doesn’t mean there’s no activity or no intelligence. You still move the body. You walk, you balance, you open the fridge, you use your fingers to grab things. All of this is being done by the mind. But now it’s the universal mind, the universal intelligence, being allowed to flow fully through you in this moment.