The mind is characterized by continuous, often irrelevant thought processes. Observing your thoughts impartially and practicing present-moment awareness can create gaps in the stream of mind, leading to a state of stillness and peace. Disidentifying from your mind is crucial for enlightenment.
Accepting the present moment and facing pain fully, without resistance, can transmute suffering into inner peace and serenity. Giving full attention to the present moment is a form of surrender that removes time and with it, suffering.
Addiction to thinking arises from identification with the mind, but true enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below it. Thinking becomes more focused and effective, while true creativity arises from a place of inner stillness.
Emotions reflect the mind's interpretations in the body. By observing emotions without judgment, you can bring unconscious patterns into consciousness. Positive states like love, joy, and peace arise from inner connectedness with the present moment.
Past emotional pain can accumulate and become the pain-body, a negative energy field that seeks to survive through your unconscious identification with it. Bringing the light of consciousness into the pain can dissolve it and restore wholeness.