Happiness and Peace
Happiness and peace are two very, very different things. Happiness is conditional and peace is unconditional.
Likewise, emotions and ‘feeling’ are two very different things.
“ Mindfulness practices vary slightly from one tradition to another. But in most of them mindfulness of emotional and physical states are very important, crucial even to this whole journey into mindful ways of living.” — Sylvia Clare
No where in this statement is there any mention of SPIRITUAL STATES. We see ourselves divided by mental and emotional states but we are conditioned to ignore ‘feeling’ and ‘spiritual’ states.
I’ve talked about it for decades but there is a very clear difference between emotions and true ‘feeling.’ Thoughts are processed in the noggin while emotions are processed in the liver. True ‘feeling’ is processed through the combination of the solar plexus and the heart and is utterly independent from thoughts and emotions.
All the many writings about mindfulness — whether Buddhist or not — profoundly ignore this. All Western thought does the very same thing.
I have studied ‘mindfulness’ for decades and I have come to the conclusion that it is a barrier that keeps us from attaining a more desired state of ‘MINDLESSNESS’.
No matter where we have grown up we have been taught to ALWAYS focus on the mind. We have been taught that our mind is our salvation despite the fact that it has been our very destruction.
Personally, I am of the conviction that if we are to truly evolve we must throw ‘mindfulness’ out the window and embrace ‘MINDLESSNESS.’
We must step out of our minds and connect with our hearts and solar plexi in order to tap into the stream of divine energy flowing through us. The mind is considered the greatest achievement of humankind but I see it as the greatest barrier to connecting to that which answers and solves our myriad of problems. Since childhood we have all been brainwashed to think that thinking is the one and only answer to every problem (most all of which were created by the mind) and this has kept the door closed to the real answers which blatantly flow through us at all times.
We are hopelessly stuck in our minds. ‘Mindfulness’ is a call to remain in that hopelessly stuck situation. We must step out of ‘mindfulness’ and move into ‘mindlessness’ in order to tap into that which goes far beyond that which amounts to cognitive masturbation. We must break the shackles of thinking and enter the realms of ‘feeling.’ (Which has nothing to do with emotions.) We must become the empty vessel through which our true divinity can come gushing forth.
It is not until we go beyond thinking that we can go into ‘feeling’ (as opposed to emotions) and it is not until we go into ‘feeling’ and beyond, that we have any hope of transcending our current collective situations.
For countless ages we have been convinced that the only way forward is to rely completely on mental cognitive forces when the true way forward is to go beyond those cognitive mental assertive conclusions in order to touch our divinity which almost every historic philosophy has hinted at but which simultaneously shielded us from.
We must stop being so gosh darn ‘mindful’ and start being ‘mindless.’ The answer to every single problem does not come through our minds but rather through our heart. If we can only shut off our minds long enough then we can start receiving the answers to all the questions that our minds put forth. Our minds project but our hearts receive. That is where all the answers are.
