Dealing With A Crazy Mind
The mind isn’t crazy; it is just full of memories that consciousness clings to. These memories cloud direct perception because consciousness is always referring to these memories. It is that which is driving us crazy.
The answer is simple. The instant we acknowledge the presence of memories, we are free, and stop re-enacting. That is all we have to do to cut through the perpetual cycle of inner chatter and outer performance. 🙂
If we do not acknowledge this state of affairs, we are bound by memories which become the governor of our mental prison.
The discipline of short moments of meditation reminds us of the clarity of direct perception, seeing afresh. The world seems crazy because most people are trapped in their memories, and repeat the same reminiscences, day after day – we can hear this in every coffee/tea shop 🙂
The key to unlocking the mind is awareness.
Pure awareness.
A true guru tells us what we already know.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
“The key to unlocking the mind is awareness. Pure awareness.” Something so simple, easy, clear and direct…and yet, the world is lost and struggles every step of the way in suffering, unable to see this straight truth and come out of it. Something has gone very wrong with the majority of humans during our civilization. And as a species, we continue to follow generation after generation, the same patterns. One wonders WHY is it so difficult to come out of suffering for most humans?
Hello Ramble,
There is good and evil in the world, and evil creates and feeds off suffering, and has been doing so for a very long time.
We are lured into believing rather than knowing. The lure is constant distraction,
because at any moment we can wake up.
Tony