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"Optimizing Energy Investments: Navigating the Mind-Heart Balance for a Fulfilling Life"



Greetings, dear friends. I hope you've discovered a favorable avenue for investing your finances.

Likewise, I trust you've directed your life energy towards a more fulfilling pursuit.

Consider this: the mind, encompassing your thought processes, consumes a significant percentage of your energy. If a substantial portion of that energy is invested in negative thinking—be it worries, judgments, or criticisms—then a considerable percentage of your investment is being frivolously spent on something that yields no positive returns.

The remaining small amount is allocated to essential bodily functions.

It's essential to recognize that expending the majority of your energy on unnecessary thoughts and concerns, especially on things beyond your control, is akin to squandering your valuable investment.

Once energy flows into the metaphorical swamp land of the mind, it can be redirected to the fertile ground of the heart's peace, love, and compassion. Unlike the mind, the heart does not distinguish between good and bad, right or wrong; such categorizations belong to the ego-mind.

Four steps to greater awareness

Step 1: The initial step involves detaching yourself from unconscious living, where the mind operates like a robot, responding mechanically to pre-programmed reactions.

Step 2: The second step is to engage in conscious observation. This entails actively watching the object of distraction or attraction, such as your surroundings or your breath. 

As you progress, you move beyond mere observation, reaching a witnessing point—a centering between opposites. In this step, you become actively vigilant and consciously aware of your external environment and internal thought processes. 

Step 3: This step goes beyond the witnessing phase, which suggests that it is still a form of doing. It surpasses the duality of subject and object, moving towards a more profound awareness of a state of being.

Step 4: The fourth step is awareness—a state of total subjectivity and presence without any specific action. Unlike witnessing, which implies a doer, awareness is non-doing, simply being or beingness. Witnessing is a technique leading toward awareness.

With awareness, the old mind dissolves, replaced by conscious alertness and an awareness of totality. The mind transcends into oneness, dissolving the duality of separate entities. The drop no longer perceives itself as separate from the ocean; it has melded into the ocean's vastness, or, more accurately, the ocean has melded into the drop.

This transcendence is the awareness that goes beyond the mind's duality.

 Consciousness, being a quality of the mind, cannot transcend duality. It perpetuates the division between subject and object, activity and inactivity, and conscious and unconscious states.

Something greater than the body is aware of the body—this is the mind. Something greater than the mind is aware of thoughts—this is consciousness. Going further, awareness is awareness of consciousness.

 The witnessing aspect of the mind, termed awareness, transcends consciousness. While consciousness is aware of the mind's activities, awareness is aware of consciousness itself.

In summary, consciousness is a facet of the mind, and awareness represents the transcendence of the mind. As the medium of duality, the mind keeps consciousness within its confines. 

Only through awareness can one move beyond the limitations of dualistic thinking. Just being aware of awareness itself.

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