DAILY GURU

Saturday 19th Of February 2005

Freedom from the compulsion to think is real freedom. Your mind thinks from the moment you wake up in the morning until you fall asleep. It gives you no moment of rest. It creates thoughts and also receives thoughts like a radio. This habit is so strong that nobody thinks of changing this situation

In this state you are not free. You may live in a free country; you may have economic independence, yet the mind keeps shackling you with thoughts, mental images and ideas.

Only by silencing the hectic mind you become able to enjoy true peace and freedom. The mind is made of thoughts, so it does what it knows well, which is thinking. It provides a constant mental movie. It is as if we are riveted in front of a screen, where we watch movies all the time. The movies are so real that we never question their validity.

If you could have been able to watch people's inner mind, you would have seen a very interesting spectacle. You would have seen each person living in a kind of closed, imaginary world, watching his/her thoughts.

You would have seen thoughts created by different minds float through the air, and are picked by others, who believe they are their own thoughts. They cherish these floating thoughts and talk, act and behave as if these thoughts are a part of them. So where is freedom?