Day 35 – Stopping the Mind is Not the same as Meditation

This post goes out to all those who may read my blogs or other Destonian stuff where we talk about ‘stopping the mind.’  There are those who may wonder what this means exactly, and may even confuse it with meditation, as I have in the past.

 

Stopping the mind is not to be confused with meditation.  Meditation is more like parking the mind to gain certain benefits, but not stopping it.  While meditating, one ‘stills’ the mind as much as possible and within that ‘stillness’ one can derive a sense of power, of peace, or blissfulness, or serenity, and even insight.  There is also a positive connotation that most associate with meditation where most believe meditation to be a ‘good thing’ or ‘spiritual’. 

 

When one meditates, however; one does not actually free or releases oneself systematically from the constructs of the mind, which is the result of ‘stopping the mind’.  In fact, meditation can even work to enslave a being further into the mind through feeding the ego of that being wherein the being sees him as ‘enlightened’ and therefore separated from all other beings within the point of superiority; and also meditation can act as a drug providing an energetic experience of euphoria. 

 

The act of stopping the mind as practiced by Destonians is a process of ‘release’ from the mind by stopping the mind through identifying the entirety of what “one” is actually existing as, as the mind.  After identifying the various mind-constructs one then moves to ‘release’ oneself from these through self-forgiveness, and then follows through with this ‘release’ with corrective application and breathing until the particular point being released no longer exists within and as that beings experience. 

 

Furthermore, as opposed to meditation, the act of stopping one’s mind is beneficial equal and one with that particular being and all of existence as that being.  In other words, the act of stopping the mind is not a form of ‘enlightenment’ or ‘attainment’ that provides benefits for the self-interest of just that being and therefore keeps the greater reality exactly the same, but is the starting point to bring about a world that is best for all as well as best for that particular being.

 

This is so, because the act of existing within and as the mind actually has an effect on all of existence, and thus is in-fact creating this very existence that we all experience today.  The existence that we all experience today is one of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘positive’ and negative’, ‘pain’ and ‘pleasure’ of which neither side can exist without each other and are all polarity constructs of the mind, and as a result millions suffer unnecessarily.  In fact, if we all were able to stop our mind, then none would suffer – ever.  This is because polarity would cease to exist as it cannot exist without the mind.  Would this have an effect on the current laws of physics?  That remains to be seen.

 

Another point to consider is that one who is walking a process of stopping the mind has already come to the realization that one is NOT the mind as opposed to one who practices meditation who does not make this realization.  One who practices meditation is seeking to ‘control’ one’s mind or ‘tame’ one’s mind or ‘tap into the potential energy’ or one’s mind, but rarely makes the realization that one is not the mind and even if so, does not make the realization as to the extent of what one is existing as within and as the mind.

 

The mind is, in fact, all of ones thoughts, feelings, and emotions.  The mind is also, all of ones judgments, fears, personalities, characters, and memories and so on. 

 

The mind is also all of ones pre-programmed reactions to any and all events and things.  A ‘pre-programmed’ reaction or response is any action that one takes without being present within and as the breath in every moment. 

 

For example, fear of spiders, is not real.  It is a self-created experience, of the mind.  If one reacts by ‘jumping back in fear’ at the sight of a spider and then yells ‘damn spider!’  That is a pre-programmed reaction based on a self-created mind-based experience to a spider.  Someone who is stopping the mind will write out the construct of ‘fear of spiders’ and then follow through with self-forgiveness and then corrective application and breathing to ensure that one walks out of this mind construct and in effect stops the mind in its fear reaction to spiders.  One who is walking the process of stopping the mind eventually has NO reaction to spiders, in this case.  This being has really changed, unlike one who meditates. 

 

Then one who is stopping the mind moves on to the next point until finally after several years, one is ‘free’ from the mind and living here as a truly free being – free of all thoughts, feelings, emotions, fears, judgments, personalities, characters and so on and living here as a living, breathing, being in full directive control of one’s being always constant, stable and the same, unchanged in every moment, and therefore able to act, always, in ways that is best for all.

 

What is best for all is the final result of stopping the mind.  Meditation can never accomplish this.