PRACTICING ‘NO MIND’

During meditation we learn to still the mind. But to carry this meditative state into daily life we may need to practice NO MIND. As we do this we become more sensitive and receptive, and experience more fully and objectively.

Here’s how: when conversing, experience the other person’s words and actions without reacting. Just be still and fully attentive, keeping your mind clear and your heart open. At some point reactive thoughts will come, but hold them off for as long as you can and focus only on listening, taking in the whole person and trying to sense and clearly understand them.

(NO MIND may be practiced during other activities, but for now, just practice it while listening to others.)

As you practice NO MIND, even the most familiar person can be experienced as if for the first time; you can have a better connection with them and have new ‘first’ impressions of them. During NO MIND, living becomes a self-expanding discovery process; true knowing and understanding, as well as love, beauty, uniqueness and joy become more readily available.

Ordinarily, the mind acts as a biased filter screening out much of reality. It defines, compares, judges and reduces reality to mental constructs born of past experience. These keep us from experiencing the wonder of living and from gaining new insights and understandings. So by practicing NO MIND, we can help ourselves overcome these limiting tendencies and experience reality more freshly, clearly, fully, deeply and truthfully.

The practice of NO MIND is a living meditation. It frees us to access authentic intuitive intelligence and allows a new level of awareness and consciousness to take hold. To move to a higher level of self, practice NO MIND.

Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.

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YOUR DIVINE POWER

The power of our divine nature lies in our ability to truly love. By acting lovingly, we express our spiritual nature and produce our most fulfilling results.

This is a simple principle which is often misunderstood because we may confuse acting lovingly with doing what we think others will approve of and deem moral, righteous or good. Such actions are guided by the promulgated ideas of social traditions and religious dogmas. And while we may be well-meaning and good in following them, we’re not necessarily loving.

Truly loving action arises from no idea or creed. It’s a free and pure spontaneous act of divine spirit. It’s unconditional and done for its own sake. When we’re truly loving, we seek only to express and enjoy the goodness of our own divine spirit and demand nothing in return. Yet paradoxically, it usually brings us our greatest returns. For when we’re authentically and purely loving, we usually gain not only acceptance and approval, we also awaken a loving response in others and get our best results.

LOVING ACTION TENDS TO BEGET LOVING ACTION AND ULTIMATELY PRODUCES OUR GREATEST GOOD.

Here lies the secret power of loving action: Because it’s a free and pure act of living spirit, it releases spiritual energy that’s healing and creative -- the higher energy essential for evolving and elevating life.

If you have any difficulty being truly loving, your spiritual energy may be blocked. If so, seek to free it. And if you can’t on our own, seek the help of your therapist or spiritual adviser; freeing and expanding your love capacity is how we realize our divine nature and is essential for having our best life.

Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.

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