I want to give you an example of what the purpose of the human brain has on spiritual education and awareness. The human brain and mind is vital to us all as it's the tool of the Earth as in materialistic survival as we require the mind to be sharp so we can survive and ultimately multiply the human race but it causes major problems within all of our spiritual development as it craves constant attention. So on one hand it's active to help you navigate through the physical plane with all it's trials and tribulations. The main problem with our current development is we don't know how to shut off the mind long enough to actually penetrate the body to catapult us to spiritual awareness of first our selves and then outwith of us. The majority of the population can't get beyond there minds and all of the trappings that the mind creates and they believe that what they are picking up is sadly an illusion which the mind creates for you to feed it's need for attention.
The human mind and brain is solely connected to ego and all that entails. Ego as we all know gives us a distorted outlook of who and what we really are in an external sense which is a very dangerous thing. The best piece of literature connected to this idea is Oscar Wilde's story The Picture Of Dorian Gray. If you are not familiar with it is goes along the lines of this. Dorian Gray is a person who has a self portrait painting of himself which he places in his attic and throughout the book he turns into a decadent playboy whose only concern is all things rich and beautiful but only in an materialistic way as he gets older his appearance doesn't change at all even as an old man he looks twenty but at the end they open up the attic to find his painting which has become a horror and repulsive to look at. The tale of the story is he sacrificed his spiritual moral compass and duty to others for selfish pursuits. So in basic terms he was rotten to the core and spiritually dead. This is what the mind tries to get you to do seek fulfilment in a shallow materialistic way where as spiritually it steers you towards being of benefit to all and giving and receiving at all times but only when you learn to still the mind.
How many of you meditate? When you meditate how often to you try and go for piece of nothingness only for random and distracting ideas, thoughts and images pop in which actually take you away from the job at hand. When you meditate you should never be distracted by external factors because what your trying to achieve is an awareness of you and you alone not to be distracted bey what the images are trying to tell you.
The problem with the human mind is it is just like a child who constantly seeks attention 24/7 and because it craves your attention non stop it creates illusions which people believe are beneficial to them but in fact they are totally worthless to you as what benefit to you is knowing who or what thinks about you. This process is actually drawing you away from what you need to do which is understand your and you alone. As you parents or anyone around children will know you can't get any peace from the children as they constantly want something from you. I speak to mothers who can't even go for a toilet break without the child wanting them and they celebrate when the child is asleep because it means peace and quiet for them.
It's the same with all spiritual studying and education. It's a constant distraction and the only way to shut them up is to 'open up' the thought, idea and image which is the worse thing you can do as you open yourself to misinformation which you accept as fact when it's not. If you have an experience of any spiritual form please do not automatically analyse it as the majority of times it's worthless to you and has no connection to you at all. If you feel a pull spiritually mentally ask for the message to be filtered and plain fully given. The majority of work done you do should only be asking about yourself and how it relates to and you alone.
The human mind and brain is solely connected to ego and all that entails. Ego as we all know gives us a distorted outlook of who and what we really are in an external sense which is a very dangerous thing. The best piece of literature connected to this idea is Oscar Wilde's story The Picture Of Dorian Gray. If you are not familiar with it is goes along the lines of this. Dorian Gray is a person who has a self portrait painting of himself which he places in his attic and throughout the book he turns into a decadent playboy whose only concern is all things rich and beautiful but only in an materialistic way as he gets older his appearance doesn't change at all even as an old man he looks twenty but at the end they open up the attic to find his painting which has become a horror and repulsive to look at. The tale of the story is he sacrificed his spiritual moral compass and duty to others for selfish pursuits. So in basic terms he was rotten to the core and spiritually dead. This is what the mind tries to get you to do seek fulfilment in a shallow materialistic way where as spiritually it steers you towards being of benefit to all and giving and receiving at all times but only when you learn to still the mind.
How many of you meditate? When you meditate how often to you try and go for piece of nothingness only for random and distracting ideas, thoughts and images pop in which actually take you away from the job at hand. When you meditate you should never be distracted by external factors because what your trying to achieve is an awareness of you and you alone not to be distracted bey what the images are trying to tell you.
The problem with the human mind is it is just like a child who constantly seeks attention 24/7 and because it craves your attention non stop it creates illusions which people believe are beneficial to them but in fact they are totally worthless to you as what benefit to you is knowing who or what thinks about you. This process is actually drawing you away from what you need to do which is understand your and you alone. As you parents or anyone around children will know you can't get any peace from the children as they constantly want something from you. I speak to mothers who can't even go for a toilet break without the child wanting them and they celebrate when the child is asleep because it means peace and quiet for them.
It's the same with all spiritual studying and education. It's a constant distraction and the only way to shut them up is to 'open up' the thought, idea and image which is the worse thing you can do as you open yourself to misinformation which you accept as fact when it's not. If you have an experience of any spiritual form please do not automatically analyse it as the majority of times it's worthless to you and has no connection to you at all. If you feel a pull spiritually mentally ask for the message to be filtered and plain fully given. The majority of work done you do should only be asking about yourself and how it relates to and you alone.