Your Conscious, Friendly Mind – Day 12
Where there is attachment, its opposite, the fourth affliction of the mind, is also present: rejection and repulsion. If we are attached to something, we are inevitably going to receive a blow in relation to it. That is a given. Then we are going to be filled with that irritable state of mind that rejects and is repulsed. We reject the blow and object to and are repulsed by all that is counter to that to which we have become identified and attached.
Attraction and repulsion are bi-polar manifestations of the mind. They continuously pull back and forth, from one side to the other, like a pendulum. We swing between the two extremes of these manifestations. Go through the book of life to see the truth of this. The source of greatest happiness has also been the source of deepest insecurity and unhappiness.
When the mind is allowed to play of its own accord between these fields, we are not really conscious. Befriending of the mind becomes difficult. Without a conscious, friendly mind, anything that happens can rob the mind of its higher properties, the stable state of equanimity. If we allow the intensifying energies of the mind in attachment and the lower, debasing energies of the mind to play freely, havoc rules.
Our ego is the foundation of all your attachments. You need to practice living in a state of God consciousness rather than ego consciousness. We need to practice living in a state of Divine love rather than mere attachment to the physical or superficial. We need to practice living in the state of love and compassion rather than being critical and judgmental toward others. Without love and compassion, spiritual practice cannot find fulfillment.
