When “I am my mind” is trapped in addiction, it is impossible to let go of the things that “I” am my mind mentally craves to make itself feel real so that “I” am my mind matters enough to function in a socially acceptable manner, or even to exist in a dysfunctional way of life. It is impossible to psychologically let go because “I” am my mind still can’t admit it and even denies being addicted to things. “I” am my mind—the illusion—thinks it can experience and control. When “I” am my mind doesn’t understand how the mind works or who “I” am my mind—is really. “I” am my mind can’t let go of its cravings because “I” am my mind can’t stop thinking in psychological time—reliving its past and projecting what “I” am my mind already knows into an imaginary future—which is the root cause of all the mind’s addictions. The mind constantly does that: thinking “I” am my mind, the constant desire for attachment to anything that the mind can identify with in time to create the illusion that the mind is something real. If “I” am my mind could let go of its identity with attachments, it could end the illusion of addictions to all the things it craves to experience—if only it could feel, it would be real—to prove its existence in time.
Wait a minute! How does “I” am my mind come to know that it is an illusion that thinks it is addicted to things it craves but can’t control or ever really experience? Knowing that “I” am my mind is an illusion must mean there is something beyond the illusory—ethereal—psychological power of the mind, a Higher Power that transcends the mind and is “aware” of the mind illusion. A natural energy source that is always aware that it is not the illusion of thinking “I” am my mind. This “awareness” is the enlightenment of my true Self. My true Self is awareness of “thinking:” that “I” am my mind is an illusion that constantly craves things to identify itself as something real.
When my true Self is aware that thinking—“I” am my mind—is an addiction, then awareness—my Higher Power—allows the ether that is the identity of the mind to evaporate, and its attachment to things falls away. The illusion of addiction disappears as cravings dissolve from a lack of attention; when “I” am my mind is quiet in a meditative state. When will “I” am my mind—the imaginary identity—let go? It is always now: when the enlightenment of my Higher Power arises as silent, formless, eternal energy, then “I” am my mind with its attachments and addictions for identity in psychological time disappear in the present moment—and only Love remains.
VAB 10-10-24
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