Wash Your Mind of Brainwashing
- olivierbranford
- May 20, 2024
- 7 min read
Updated: Jan 28
Your mind is the enemy. Your brain needs washing out of your ego. You can be at peace even with a chaotic mind. The mind is an unstable, unwell, unhealthy phenomenon. Thoughts and feelings are unstable: They are like clouds, floating in the great expanse of the sky. Even who you think you are (your ego) is changing. The mind is not well. It is filled with fear and false beliefs. Wash it all away. Put that ego on a hot wash. Spirituality is a washing of the mind, to leave only awareness behind. There is something inside you that is beyond the world experienced in the mind. You are not a factual self. You are the great ‘I AM’. It doesn't belong to the mind or to desires. This is eternal. Mooji said “No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe with the thought, you give power to the thought.”
Don’t define your Self through others or their projections: They are illusions that define them, not you. They are temporary. Don’t be attached to others, things, or to circumstances. Let go of everything: Surrender.
How much pleasure you take in acquiring worldly goods. Your obligations have scorched your heart. The world is just an idea. Nothing will be enjoyed or suffered for ever. This too shall pass. All is well. If all these things are changing, that which observes them is not changing: This is the Self. We are only troubled by things as we want them a certain way and they won't obey.
What is always stable, complete, total, content, anxiety-free, joyous, effortless, natural, peaceful, unconditionally loving, and harmonious is your True BEing. You are what is there before your mind, before your personality. The Self is eternal. This is your pure, ultimate Truth and it has always been here despite the changeful brainwaves of the mind. Your BEing can be remembered and discovered by simple investigation, profound understanding, and clarity – it is not created. It is the witness, the observer, always neutral, not judging, experienced as awareness. Ram Dass wrote that “Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.” Keep marinating in your awareness.
Every living BEing is searching for this spiritual bliss. You already are the peace you are looking for: Be still and know that. Become the embodiment of love and joy.
Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not. A Phoenix rises from the ashes and fluorescent flowers pierce the landscaped ruins of a wildfire. We are no different. We too rise up against all odds, looking more beautiful, feeling more empowered, and seeing a deeper Truth on the path to Self-realisation.
You may feel a deep yearning to discover your Self: And you can. Just unhook your Self from your thinking. Love your True Self. Awaken to your own unchanging Nature and all delusions melt away like a dream. Be patient. You can only know your Self and discover wisdom by taking a journey and have experiences. You can’t know your Self by reading a book or over-intellectualising. You don't have to be an intellectual. There is no need to think. In fact it's better if you don't. There is no knowledge to amass. Mooji wrote “Throw everything away, forget about it all! You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying too hard . . . relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow.” When you are conscious that you are conscious, everything becomes light and you have a natural feeling of healing, wellbeing and floods of joy. Mooji said "Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind."
Realise where you are looking from, not just what you are looking at. You will feel fear if you are looking from the ego as it is terrified of being washed away. Look at the world from your Higher Self. The peace and joy that you are looking for in the world must first be found in your heart. Let stillness fall upon you with its sweet and cooling showers. You are not in awareness, you are awareness. Just rest as awareness. You are only disturbed by your imagination. The noise will be replaced by a field of BEing and peace. And you did not have to create anything to do this. Joy will flood your BEing. You will not feel overwhelmed. The emotional exhaustion will disappear. You will no longer need to escape anything. You will no longer crave anything. You will be still. You will be freedom itself. Alan Watts said “How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a God?”
Mooji wrote "You don’t have to worry about anything. This world is so full of love. And your heart, your BEing, is so full of love, so full of peace. You don’t have to go to some place else to find peace. It is right where you are.”
You will feel the peace that passes all understanding.
In the realm of contemporary spiritual teachings, Mooji stands as a beacon of light, guiding seekers on a journey of self-discovery, inner peace, and spiritual liberation. Rooted in the non-dual teachings of Advaita Vedanta, Mooji offers individuals a space for profound self-inquiry, Self-realisation, and the recognition of one’s true nature. Mooji serves as a catalyst for awakening, inviting us to transcend the limitations of the mind and experience the boundless freedom of pure awareness. Mooji is a Jamaican spiritual teacher based in Portugal who gives talks on Self, awareness, and spirituality. Before becoming a teacher, he traveled to India, visited the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharishi, and met with Papaji which he claims had a lasting effect on him. Watch this video with Mooji to get a real sense of this journey:
Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you: Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
George Bernard Shaw wrote that “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Are you ready to change your mind?
Namaste.
Olly
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