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February 09, Vol.1 : Issue 1
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Mind Management
Prof Antara Sengupta,
IILM BS, Kolkata

IILM BSIt is difficult to define Mind Management using a single sentence as Mind Management can mean numerous things and can have several dimensions.

It can mean building self-confidence, self-motivation and drive, improving self-image and avoiding defeatist habits of the mind like laziness, procrastination and so on. It could also mean emotions management, which would then involve managing negative emotions like anger, jealousy, hostility and fears and developing positive emotions like love, ardor, and passion and so on. Some would say mind management is development of self-mastery and assertiveness.

 Tibetan mind management traditions would say that it consists of stilling the ‘sem’ or ‘sempa’, the lower or ordinary mind, which is “the mind that thinks, plots, desires, manipulates, that flares up in anger, that creates and indulges in waves of negative emotions and thoughts, after stilling it and transcending it, rising to the higher mind which they call rig or rigpa, “the primordial, pure, pristine awareness that is at once intelligent, cognizant, radiant, and always awake.”

The world we live in, is created by us, created by our mind. Good people or bad people populate our world.

The bird of paradise cleans its living place for itself and its mate, removing every fallen leaf and every small twig lying there. The pig turns any place it lives into a sty.

Not only is the world we live in created by us, but what we are, too is decided by us. We are made of our thoughts. Our self-image, our personality, our inner world, is all products of our thoughts. As we think, so we become.

If we constantly entertain angry thoughts in our mind, over time we turn into angry people. Entertain jealous thoughts in our mind, and over time we turn into jealous people. Our thoughts turn us into an intolerant person, a vengeful one, rigid and unyielding and so on. Negativities make it impossible for us to know what joy is, what happiness is. We may occasionally know excitements, but apart from that, we know no joy.

A man whose heart is filled with anger, with hatred, with jealousy, vengeance, greed or lust knows no peace of mind. These feelings are like the forest fire born from the friction of two dry branches – the fire first consumes the branches and then burns down the entire forest.
Meditation is the food for mind. The mind doesn't ask for food when it is hungry, unlike your stomach, which almost roars when kept empty for a long period of time. The mind is like a silent obedient servant, always at the disposal of the master. By riding the car of meditation, the mind can be made to turn away from those unwanted human emotions of anger, jealously, thoughtless pondering, fear. 

The meditation process just acts as a speed breaker for the thought process in our mind and gives us time to get in touch with the infinite, which is the ultimate source of energy. The infinite lies within self. It cannot be seen and touched. It can be only experienced. When one reaches the ultimate core, he becomes unshakable.

Meditation is not what you always had in mind that of a jungle full of trees, anthills and snakes. Just go to a place, where you won't be disturbed for at least 15 minutes and can feel relaxed.
Meditation is the master key to piece of mind. Harness your mind through meditation because it will increase the mileage of happiness in your mind.

 




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