Jayhurtive, Jiamasters.

There's so many techniques, paths that people often struggle with to try to come closer, not to God, but to who you are.

Because that's who you are.

All of them at some point deal with mind.

You have to deal with mind.

Why?

Let's say you're an alcoholic or a drug addict.

You're not going to go further until you take on that problem.

The mind is the reason that you don't feel tremendous Shakti spirit pouring through

you all the time. It's very important to understand the nature of mind and more important, as

important, which we're going to discuss tonight, its relationship to the heart. At some point, and you wouldn't be here if you

hadn't, you have stepped back and realized you are aware of your mind, you are not the mind. You're

aware of your heart's emotions. You're not the emotions. You're aware of them. Otherwise, you

wouldn't know they were there. It's that simple.

The spiritual teaching shouldn't be very complicated. Are you aware you have thoughts? Yes. What part of

you is aware that you have thoughts? You have positive thoughts, you have negative thoughts,

you have all kinds of thoughts, and you are the same one that is aware of all those thoughts. And you have

emotions of all different shapes and sizes, and you are aware of those. There's no emotions that

you have that you're not aware of. That's why you know you have them. But in general, we struggle

with them, and we think that that is a spiritual path. It will reach a point in your growth,

which takes a long time to become mature in your spiritual path. But there comes a time where you realize

there's a reason that the mind is the way it is. It's not enough to say, I'm going to stop it, or I want it to shut up for a few

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