Cleaning our Minds

Powers of Mind is the source of all of our power.

The rewards for change go to those who have overcome what they have been taught by others. Unfortunately, most of us are unable to go beyond what we are taught by our parents, society, and confirmed by our own experiences.

For many of us, we cling to our beliefs and values as sacrosanct blessings. We tell stories about our childhoods, our parents' rules and regulations, and how we had so much fun back in the day. Yet these are the stories responsible for the confusion we have about who we are now.

We add further confusion about our identities by soaking deleterious knowledge into our minds. The more we master language, mathematics, science, and technology, the greater we perceive ourselves.

Conversely, the less mastery we have of these fields, the more inadequate we perceive ourselves. This schizophrenic approach to self-discovery locks us into the darkness of our beliefs and values. And it moves us further from our unconditioned consciousness of enlightenment.

Whenever we cloak ourselves with our own creations and turn them into gods, we believe or tell others that we are now working out-of-the-box. Unfortunately, we are actually working within our existing beliefs and values.

This means that our beliefs and values are the distortions preventing us from seeing ourselves and the outside world clearly. In other words, out-of-the-box is nothing more than the discovery of a new perspective, one that  already exists in the world's illusions, but not yet discovered by us.

Similarly, it's important for us to be aware that most of us will never go beyond the beliefs and values of this world. We will continue to believe in the language game and label ourselves by race, color, gender, and so forth until we pass from this life.

For us to go beyond what we already know and what's already in the world, we must go deeper into our minds and discover our unconditioned consciousness. This is our essence. This is what provides us with the limitless power to overcome what others have taught us.

Meanwhile, the work to go beyond our current beliefs and values is too frightening for most of us to undertake. We are too afraid of the known and unknown.

When we work on our minds, we inevitably discover things about ourselves that we're afraid to confront. This means we begin to perceive ourselves in a way and manner that's inconsistent with our beliefs and values.

There's a certain disruption in our lives when we clean our minds to see people clearly. For the first time we're able to perceive our parents, spouse, family, and friends without distortions.

This clarity of those close to us is a new and confusing experience. And most of us don't find it very appealing to perceive people, especially those close to us, without feeling certain obligatory concessions.

Nevertheless, for us to conquer what others have taught us, we must be willing to "lose ourselves in order to find ourselves." In other words, we must lose the ego-self, with all the labels and judgments, and discover our unconditioned consciousness of enlightenment.

Powers of Mind is the source of all of our power. What we know comes from the beliefs and values in our minds. And for us to go beyond the world's limitations, we must use our Powers of Mind.