Continued from Part One * Continued from Part Two

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding that you can only recognize the truth within yourself, the Buddha never preached the truth, and warned of accepting anyone else’s truth.

While formalized religions have declined in influence, the process of formulating creeds and imposing belief and dogmas remains a characteristic of human consciousness. It is an energetic process that shapes and limits consciousness independently from other factors.

Krishnamurti points out that clarity of perception and thought is not the outcome of cultivating the intellect:

“To understand the misery and confusion that exist within ourselves, and so in the world, we must first find clarity within ourselves, and that clarity comes about through right thinking. This clarity is not to be organized, for it cannot be exchanged with another. Organized group thought is merely repetitive. Clarity is not the result of verbal assertion, but of intense self-awareness and right thinking. Right thinking is not the outcome of or mere cultivation of the intellect, nor is it conformity to pattern, however worthy and noble. Right thinking comes with self-knowledge. Without understanding yourself, you have no basis for thought; without self-knowledge, what you think is not true.”

and:

“Belief inevitably separates. If you have a belief, or when you seek security in your particular belief, you become separated from those who seek security in some other form of belief. All organized beliefs are based on separation, though they may preach brotherhood.” Clarity of thinking is only possible when we are free of the emotions we have attached to our thoughts and memories.” (Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfilment)

How each of us weathers the current world economic crisis will be determined by the degree to which we operate from insight and clarity, rather than operating automatically by a preset formula.

Operating with the beliefs, judgements, perspectives and emotions of the past, will only perpetuate more of the same.

It cannot be any other way. As the saying goes, if you keep doing the same things you will keep getting the same results. Formulas inevitably lead to blind thinking, and sadly the use of formulas is universal.

Perhaps “thinking by the numbers” is inevitable; our systems of acculturation and education are based on teaching what to think, not on how to think. We have an abundance of formulas and patterns historically available to us.

We are brought up as Republicans, or Democrats, Christians, Moslems, Buddhists, or the Hell’s Angels. We are Americans, Spaniards, Czech, Hungarian, or Chinese. Our reaction to any life challenge is modelled from our past history.

Unless we change, we will use an old pattern in response to the new crisis we face. Our response will probably be off target, and certainly lack what is needed the most; newness and innovation. We will miss opportunities to make things different.

If you respond as a Catholic, a Buddhist, a Hell’s Angel, a Liberal, Conservative, or rebel, you are responding like an automaton, according to a patterned thought. What are your chances of succeeding?

In order to successfully meet new challenges we must strip ourselves entirely of the emotional attachments and reactions we have developed throughout our lives, we must let go of the past, and meet the challenge that is really in front of us. If not, like Don Quixote, we will forever fight windmills.

Belief in formulas and action in accordance with these beliefs cannot lead us to new solutions for our problems. It is only through creative understanding of our selves that there can be a creative world, a happy world, and ultimately a world in which the ideas and beliefs that are destroying us do not exist.

Huxley points out that “An education that teaches us not how but what to think is an education that calls for a governing class of pastors and masters.” (Preface To: The First and Last Freedom)

This is how our world is organized.  Within our system, those who seek to be leaders want power and wealth. Those who are willingly led seek certainty and security. In the end, if you are a follower, you substitute your freedom for the illusion of security. The masters and the followers each play their part, and each is entirely dependent on the other.

You have heard enough to get the picture. Like it or not, if you have a mind, you are a victim of the way your mind works.

You are not wrong or bad. You are not really crazy, but you are run by the automatic processes of your mind. You are not free to think without the distortion of your personal past.

You are limited by what you have learned and believe to be true. And finally, you are limited by your knee-jerk emotional reactions.

Your knowledge and your reactions are, in the end, all that you have available to deal with the world, aren’t they?

How else could it be?

Like it or not, no matter what contents (thoughts) fill your conscious mind, at a process level all minds are the same. The process is not conscious; only the effects of the processes become conscious.

The process is inherently limiting, stopping us from directly connecting with what is occurring right now. If you think you are in control of your thoughts, or if you think that you are different, you are wrong. Take the blue pill and stay as you are.

For those interested in the red pill of truth, the important question is how do you possibly change your mind if the problem is how the mind is wired? How do you stop the automatic processes that go on in your mind? How do you let go of your biases and beliefs and reactions from the past?

Some time ago I told you I would offer you the opportunity to wake up or stay asleep. Now is your moment of truth. I have found a way to change the mind in a way that you won’t believe. It won’t make any sense, and will break every rule you might expect. You must take it or leave it. I’ve said all that can be said.

I call the process Acupuncture4TheMind, A4M for short, because it uses a unique method of stimulating the body’s energy system. As it turns out, it can also change the energy of the mind.

It can stop the automatic processes that reference the past. It can clear the patterns and filters that you accumulated across time.

The mind is not in the brain as is commonly thought (but never proved). We have medically identified a sizable number of people who have fine minds, but no brains.

The mind is a nexus of energetic processes, which together focus our awareness into consciousness, not something between your ears. A4M can energetically free your mind to see things as they are, not as you think or believe.

I offer you the opportunity to take the first of 16 streaming audio steps that can change the automatic way you think and react, free of charge.  The only trick is that you have to do it, and as I said earlier, there are more fun things to do.

What A4M offers is a path to the space of neutral awareness that I refer to as “practical enlightenment”.  Consciousness is a process that always involves judgment. When judgment is present, comparison and condemnation follow, and open-mindedness is absent; there can be no freedom from the grip of symbols and systems, and no escape from the past and the environment.

The true liberation is an inner freedom of creative reality. A4M will not tell you how to think, it emotionally separates you from your past and it assists by freeing you from what you have already concluded.

Equally importantly, A4M will clear your mind, expand your perception, and allow you to land on your feet when the balloon goes pop.

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