See, every fight is just resistance. So, people come and say "How I can get rid of all suffering the mind imposes, that thought, that feeling, that memories, that recollections end up imposing on me?"
So, they ask "how to get rid of the mind?", "what can I do to get rid of the mind?", "how to fight the mind?", So there we go… How to fight the mind? Don´t fight! The point is this: don´t fight, don´t resist, don´t clash. When you do that, you separate yourself ideologically, there comes this illusion of the sense of someone who can conquer… to conquer whom? To beat the mind.
So, in that duality, what is actually happening is the mind separating from itself, in resistance, in struggle. This, in fact, is something that further strengthens the sense of separation and naturally strengthens conflict.
So, don't fight the mind. Do something completely different from that: welcome the mind. The mind becomes the enemy when there is a combatant against it; then the enemy appears. So, this enemy is based on resistance, confrontation. This is the basis of the fight! Then the enemy appears on that basis.
My recommendation is that you discover the beauty of welcoming what comes, just becoming aware, becoming aware of what it represents. When that happens, because of the absence of resistance, absence of separation, of this sense of duality, in the absence of conflict, the mind, or what it represents, can reveal itself, and once it reveals itself, it dissolves. Then, that thought, or that feeling, or that memory story, which it brings, dissolves, disappears. And why does it disappear? Because it has no other reality. The only reality of this apparition is memory. It is a simple memory.
See, thought is just thinking and memory is just thinking. This is not You. This is not your Self. This is not your Real Nature. This is not who you are. So, you are just faced with a phenomenal apparition, which comes and goes. Since it´s not You and it´s not being energized, fueled by resistance, by fight, by conflict, it falls away, it disappears.
So, don´t fight the mind. Again, just approach it in a friendly way, and when I say "come closer," it is not a move that you make. It is a movement that simply happens by observation. The direct opening to this verification makes this approximation possible.
What "you" are, or what you represent at that moment, needs to reveal itself. You need to become fully aware of it. So that´s the end of resistance, that´s the end of fight. You may say that a state is uncomfortable, but it is the state that, at that moment, this separate identity represents, and that has to be seen, that has to be embraced, that has to be "understood." So that ends. In general... it is not a subject for this moment here, but in general... we cannot explore it now, here, at this time... in general the movement is always resistance or escape. Either you confront to fight, or you run away. We can deal with that some other time.
Here, I want to talk to you about the importance of welcoming.
So, you neither run away nor resist, but discover the importance of welcoming, and welcoming is to observe without getting confused, without getting tangled up, without
identifying with it. It is something you discover through experience, through self-observation. You start to see it, and over time...This is something that requires this patient appreciation, it is something that is done, yes, moment to moment, or should be done moment to moment, but which of course requires patience and "time."
Once this is done, it becomes clear what we are saying to you here: that it is possible to get rid of the mind, without resistance, without fighting. It is just like that, just like that…
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