I saw this quote the other day and
thought that it would be fun to break it down. This is an
interesting quote as it has some valid points in it, but ultimately
if one follows the advice of this quote one will be abdicating all
self-responsibility to direct self from the starting point of
self-awareness as what is best for all, and as a consequence thus
abdicating self to the mind, once again. Let's have a look.
First let's look at the first part of
the statement 'when your troubled or seeking answer's...'. Within
this statement, I would assume that this means that there is a lot of
mental backchat / dialog going on in relation to fears / fear of
things that might happen to self or others and within the point of
'seeking answers', this would indicate to me that one does not see a
way out of the fears coming up in relations to something. Whatever
the case, there must be thoughts and emotions dominating the mind in
order for one to define self as 'troubled and seeking answers'
because if not, then self would simply be 'here' breathing, right?
Then as a solution, the author of this
quote, offers the idea of 'silencing the mind and thus allowing the
'divine inner wisdom within to guide you'. Well see, this is based
on the reality that the act of silencing the mind is the direction
one would want to go in order to alleviate the self-inflicted torment
of participating in all the backchat / internal dialog associated
with the fears 'of what might happen' or 'what is happening' that
must be currently 'troubling' the individual. So, what the author of
this quote is saying is 'stop all those fears and the backchat /
internal diagonal associated with all those fears so as to stop
torchering self with one's own mind, and then accept and allow the
'inner divine wisdom' to take over that comes from the silence of the
mind, as the solution.
So, that is cool and all, and has some
veracity to it, yet there are some questions that one must ask self,
if self desires to be the solution to one's apparent problems or
'troubled-ness', such as: “where does this divine inner wisdom come
from?” and “how does one know that this divine inner wisdom can
guide self?” and “how is one going to stop all this backchat /
internal dialog that's going on in the mind in the first place? Is
one going to truly release self from it, or just suppress it? - and
how does self know the difference?” and “how does self know that
this divine inner wisdom is not coming from the subconscious and
unconscious mind? And “why is it so enticing to hear a statement
like 'the divine inner wisdom'? - why not just breathe and act within
and as common sense as a solution?” and “where is our
self-responsibility if we are guided by this 'divine inner wisdom'?”
and '”why do we like to believe that we have this inner wisdom and
that we are divine and that our 'inner' selves or 'higher selves' or
other 'higher beings' out there are here to guide us, if we only
believe in them or ourselves as these guides?” and “who is self
within all of this? - is this an act of self-responsibility to
believe in something outside of self, or a 'higher divine inner self'
that will guide us through 'troubled times / waters' that we can
access if we stop our mind?” Is this not an act of separation?”
I will look at all these questions in
the next post. For now, the point that I would like to make is that
it is so easy to get caught-up in these seemingly cool statements
because they sound so good and bring hope that there is a way out of
our fears, an easy way out – like all we have to do is stop the
fears and the backchats and then believe in ourselves because we
already are these great wonderful beings. But the huge problem with
that is that we are nothing other than what we have already created
ourselves to be and that to be the solution for ourselves or others
takes self-application, time, and self-commitment. It is not magic
that just happens when we 'believe' in something or ourselves.
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