Mind-less to Mind-filled

Some of you are going to take what I am about to say personally, which is fine. If the shoe fits…

YOU think too much.

Look, I’ve been there and am still doing it – in moderation to some degree. However, I am also very aware that the only reason that I am often doing it is simply to satisfy my ego. Yes, that is correct. We think, and over think, merely to soothe our fragile egos.

Admit it! YOU have no ability to be humble. Life is all about YOU and what makes YOU look good, even when everything, and everyone, around YOU is plunging into the abyss of the crab pot we call life.

For those who are not familiar with the nature of a crab pot, YOU need to read this. When a fisherman goes out to catch crabs, the catch is taken out of the traps and placed into a holding tank or pot. Now crabs are notoriously known to be free spirits in their activities until they are placed into a collective. Something happens to the crab when it is forced to share space with other crabs. If a crab makes an attempt to crawl out of the pot, the other crabs will intentionally pull that crab back into the pot, sometimes over and over again, until it stops trying to leave. Then, when another crab begins to express the same desire for freedom, the collective performs the same suppressing routine.

YOU are the crab trying to break free or YOU are the crab trying to keep everyone in the same pot. Hence, YOU think too much – freedom or containment. This is what feeds your ego.

In the current movement of spiritual attainment there exists a process called “mindfulness.” Its purpose is to release a person from the inner focus on self and open up avenues of realization to the world which surrounds them. In other words, YOU need to quit being transfixed on YOU and look at the world around YOU and what it is going through despite YOU being there. At some point, the intention is for YOU to become “mindful” of others. Good luck with that! Remember, YOU don’t have the ability to be humble just as the “other” doesn’t have the ability either. Ego doesn’t play favorites unless it is YOU.

The apostle Paul encouraged the collective in Corinth to remember that they have the mind of Christ. And to the collective in Phillipi he exhorted them to “… let this mind be in you…” and then immediately followed it with, “…thought it not robbery to be equal with…” It is what follows this claim that YOU have an issue. So, let’s deal with that now.

Remember Jesus, the man? According to the fourth gospel, the man, praying through the mind of Christ, asks for all of us, across the span of time, to be ONE with the Father as HE and the Father are ONE. So long as there is YOU, there is no ONE, simply because YOU rob God! Truth hurts YOU as it set you free.

Who is all powerful, YOU or God? Who is all knowing, YOU or God? Who is all loving, YOU or God? What prevents YOU from being equal with God, just as Paul claimed about the man, Jesus? YOU know, right?

What if YOU are simply one, from a global multitude of expressions, of who God is? What if YOU forgot this – no – elected to ignore this? What if this mind in YOU is in direct opposition to the ONE mind simply because YOU think there is more than ONE mind? What if YOU are merely a thought, an illusion, a projection of a fractured ego seeking to return to ONE whole?

YOU need to be mind-less of YOU to be the ONE mind known in Christ. The egoic thoughts of YOU will always be a stumbling block to the mind of Christ, a mind which you already possess and lives inside you. This is simply because the desires of the ego are not the same as the desires and affections of Christ. To the ego, life is all about YOU. With Christ, it is all about the Father and the oneness they share. This ONE-ness is what fills the Christ-mind, the thoughts, and the subsequent actions from those thoughts. YOU want no part of this or do you?