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Rewiring Neural Pathways for Higher Awareness

by peace2all

Those who study truth as taught by those who have become
enlightened see the limitations of conventional psychology quite
clearly. Studying the works of Freud is one thing, but a Zen
master is on an entirely different level and can solve many more
problems, and generally with greater ease because their
understanding of the mind and reality is much deeper. Freud was
still identified with being the mind, while the enlightened are
identified with the Awareness that is able to silently watch the
mind from an outside perspective. The first one thinks about what
the truth might be, while the other is the Truth (with a capital
"T"), and therefore truly knows the Truth. True knowing involves
being that which is to be known, otherwise it's nothing more than
mere speculation and intellection. This article is for those who
are ready to go beyond the intellect.

The brain is basically a computer that automatically plays the
programs (society's beliefs) that are put into it. The neural
pathways, thought processes, and mental associations of the brain
become ingrained and habitual, thus perpetuating the same
behaviors and thought processes over and over again. Just as a
drop of water will continuously and repetitively flow down the
same pathway after the first drop originates the way, the energy
flowing through the brain's neural network will do the same.

The good news however, is that we can change those neural
pathways; first, by realizing that we can, second, by wanting to
change the brain's thought processes, and third, by choosing to
adopt different (more positive) ways of perceiving "reality". The
only way to change those repetitive thought processes, and to
create new neural pathways, is to let go of the mental concepts
that one currently thinks are "true". In doing so, energy starts
flowing throughout the brain in different directions to different
parts of the brain, thus contributing to new neural pathways and
new ways of thinking and perceiving. The more we purposefully
think in a different manner, the easier it becomes, and
eventually that becomes the brain's new way of automatically
thinking. With this understanding it becomes quite apparent why
Buddha said "What we think, we become".

When we focus on the negative, we perpetuate the negative. When
we focus on the positive, we perpetuate the positive.

When a person says "that's just the way I am" or "I can't help
it, I am what I am", that's not quite true. They are who they are
because of what they are currently aware of, and because of the
way they choose to think and perceive. Absolutely everything is a
choice, but people don't realize it. The problem is that they
simply aren't aware that they can change the mind's way of
thinking, and that's because they identify those thoughts as
being "me" or "important", when they're not.

The heart pumps blood all by itself without you doing it, the
lungs breath air all by themselves without you doing it, and the
brain associates concepts with other concepts all by itself. The
mind is thinking completely on its own. It has nothing to do with
"you". If you look inside even for a brief minute you'll see that
words, thoughts and thinking are completely automatic. The brain
works all by itself, which means that you are not the doer of
deeds, nor the thinker of thoughts.

The body is a collective community of individually living cells
that are all co-operating together to make a larger whole. The
brain's neural network, and its thoughts and thinking are just
another part of that overall cellular functioning. So if the mind
and body are working all by themselves as a result of cells doing
work, why do we identify the mind's thoughts and the body's
actions as being "me"? Are we the mind and body, or are we the
Energy/Life/Consciousness/Awareness within the body that is
simply aware of itself as existing? Are we the mind and body, or
are we the Awareness that is watching the body/mind's automatic
functioning? Are we the physical doer and thinker, or are we the
formless Silent Observer?

Out of being identified with the body/mind, we are being
controlled by it. We are enslaved by it because we falsely
identify it as being "me". But this is just a part of the
evolution of consciousness that we all go through. The ultimate
goal of life, and really the only one worth pursuing, is to set
oneself free from this false identification that creates
suffering.

You are the silent formless Awareness that is aware of the mind,
its random babblings, and its irrelevant thinking. That thinking
is irrelevant because Silence is all-knowing, which explains
perfectly why people experience sudden epiphanies, insights, and
intuition in moments of inner quietude. Epiphanies happen in the
Silence of the mind, not because of the mind, but the mind likes
to mistakenly take credit for those brilliant ideas that come out
of seemingly nowhere. The mind thinks it "knows", but only
Silence actually does.

As long as one thinks their current physical sense and brain
perceptions of "reality" are "the truth", one will never come to
realize otherwise.

Words, concepts, and perceptions have nothing to do with reality
because they are only based on the interpretations of human
anatomy. Every different species of animal on the planet
perceives their reality differently because their physical senses
and brain work differently. A dog's sense of smell will give it a
completely different sense of "reality" than that of any other
species on the planet, an elephant's sense of hearing will give
it a completely different sense of reality than that of any other
kind of animal, and a fly's sense of vision will be entirely
different than that of any other type of animal. Every different
dog or human will also sense and perceive things differently than
every other dog and human as well.

To think that a human's perception, or your individual mind's
perception, of "reality" is "the truth" would mean that every
other living thing on the planet that has a different perception
of reality is "false". That simply cannot be true. If it's all
relative, all subject to change, and is only based on one's level
of current awareness, then it's all irrelevant.

To think that the mental concepts in one's own brain are "the
truth" is nothing more than the mind's egoic wishful thinking.
The ego has a superiority complex. It likes to be "right", and it
will try to perpetuate that notion in whatever way it can.
Individual perceptions, opinions, concepts, and thoughts are not
at all important, but the ego/mind/brain/intellect likes to think
that they are, and it often sees this kind of information as a
threat even though it's the solution to one's problems. There
comes a time when we eventually realize that thinking is the
original underlying source of all conflict, hardship, and
suffering, and at that point we choose to start letting the
thinking process dissipate as it arises, or before it arises.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder because of the mind's
perceptions of, and beliefs about, so-called "reality". Things
are only seductive, attractive, and tempting out of an automatic
result of biology, anatomy, and unawareness of higher levels of
truth. Without the mind interfering, everything just IS; nothing
more, nothing less, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Existence is perfect exactly as it is and it doesn't need the
opinions of a faulty neural network running on autopilot to tell
it that it is or isn't.

The brain/mind is faulty in that it can't decipher truth from
falsehood, but at the same time it's perfect because it is what
it wants to be. People think what they do because that's what
they want to be "the truth". Everybody can believe what they want
to believe, even if it means their own suffering.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but only thinking makes it
so." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The only Absolute Reality is that Awareness Is, and as soon as
the mind tries to conceptualize that "Is" into a thought form,
it's already falling into error. All words and concepts beside
"Is" are a mental distortion of Reality based on fantasy,
fiction, and the wishful thinking of the mind. Actually, even
"Is" is a concept that is best to be let go of in order to
realize the ultimate in peace of mind. Why? Because silence of
mind means peace of mind.

So "what is enlightenment?" you might be asking at this point.
Well, it's the permanent cessation of all concepts, thoughts, and
perceptions of the ego/mind/brain/intellect, and it's the
full-blown realization that one's true identity is actually
formless, shapeless, timeless, non-local, all-encompassing,
all-knowing pure Awareness. And don't even think about trying to
imagine that with the mind!

Jarett Sabirsh is a very serious student of truth in all of its
relative forms, and its absolute non-form. A profound spiritual
experience radically changed his life. He is the author of <a
href="http://www.thetruthsoflife.com">The Truths of Life</a>.

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