The Mind the Mansion 1
Your mind is like a mansion with many rooms and you are pure awareness walking through it, so you can choose which area of the mind you spend your time in.
Dandapani introduces the mind as a mansion of many rooms, with awareness as the thing that moves through it. He points out that most people never notice where in the mind they spend their time, and that the goal is mastery over awareness so you make the choice rather than your environment.
What this talk covers
- You have a choice about where in your mind you spend the most time, and you can choose to reside anywhere in it.
- Most people do not realize this and are not even aware of where in their mind they are spending their time.
- Imagine the mind as a mansion with many rooms and yourself as pure awareness walking into it; the mind does not move, awareness moves within the mind.
- At any point in time either you are moving your awareness to a particular area of the mind, or someone or something around you is dictating where it goes.
- If you let your environment control your awareness you can end up in an unhappy or a jealous area of the mind, so the goal is mastery over awareness.
The mind doesn't move. It's awareness that moves within the mind.Dandapani
Questions
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The mind is a huge house with many, many rooms, and you are pure awareness walking into it. You can go anywhere in that mansion, which means you can choose which area of the mind you reside in.
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If you allow your environment, the people and things around you, to control your awareness, it can be taken to an unhappy area of the mind or a jealous area of the mind. The goal is to have mastery over your awareness so that you decide where it goes.
Transcript
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Did you know that you have a choice where in your mind you spend the most time at? In fact, you can choose to reside anywhere in your mind that you want to. You have that choice. But most people don't realize this.
Most people aren't even aware where in their mind they spend their time at. Imagine your mind, like a mansion, a huge house with many, many, many different rooms within it. and you are pure awareness walking into this mansion. Now you can go anywhere in this mansion.
The mind is no different as well. Our awareness moves within the mind all the time. The mind doesn't move. It's awareness that moves within the mind.
Now at any point in time, either you are moving your awareness to a particular area of the mind, or someone or something around you is dictating where your awareness is going.
Now if you're allowing your environment to control your awareness, you could end up in an unhappy area of the mind. You can end up in a jealous area of the mind. You can end up in a happy area of the mind.
The goal is for you to have mastery over your awareness. So you decide where in the mind you want to spend most of your time.