Taming the mind
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27 August, 2010
The mind is not as wild and uncontrollable as you are constantly taught, or as you constantly think. You create a war with yourself and fight with yourself because you continue to feel that the mind is uncontrollable.
There was a very beautiful enlightened Master and alchemist. Alchemist means, he who can transmit enlightenment through medicines and herbs: a siddha. He continuously wrote verses calling the mind as my inner ghost: the ghost which is there inside. When I read the verses, I realized that it is a very powerful technique. Whatever problem is created by the mind, he gives a solution for the mind, verbally, keeping the mind outside as a ghost. He says, O my inner ghost, listen, this is the truth.
You don’t know the power of uttered words. The words which are going on inside you will not be clear, stable, or recorded in your brain until they pass through the vak (throat). If all your problems have the power of sixty six percent, the uttered words will have the power of one hundred percent. When you utter the words towards your mind, suddenly so much of clarity will happen. Your mind will just settle down, keep quiet. It is a ghost as long as you don’t know how to tame it. But the moment you know how to tame it, it’s just a simple child. All you need is to sit alone with your mind and have a simple friendliness towards it. Clearly tell your mind the solution to your problem.
Whenever you are facing a problem, go into your room or some other place where you can sit and talk to yourself, where you will not be in trouble for talking to yourself - because in society, you can’t talk to yourself openly!
Clearly visualize that your inner ghost, your mind, is sitting in front of you. Talk out loudly and give the solution to the problem also! You do not know the power of this process! Don’t feel shy, timid or disturbed. Verbally tell your mind, this is not the problem. This is not the solution. This is the problem. And this is the solution.
Just try talking to your mind for one week. It needs nothing else. Talking to your mind and taming your mind is a very powerful process, which can lead you directly to the silence of the mind.