Face Your Mind One Thought at a Time
Attack your enemy one thought at a time. If you think all thoughts put together is your enemy, you empower your enemy. Always understand, when you work with your enemy, divide and rule! If you think all your enemies are gathered together, you will start having all unnecessary fears.
Your enemies are not as intelligent as you always think. This is one of the important sutras. Understand: even in your life, your enemies are not that intelligent, cooperative and understanding as you might think. Just like you, they will also have problems among themselves.
If you think your mind is your enemy, do not empower it by saying, it is one single huge organism. No! Handle it one thought at a time, because in your hand, you have only one weapon, you have only one thought. One thought is one weapon. With one weapon, one thought, how will you handle ten thousand thoughts? No, you can't. So, break your mind also. Tell your mind, 'Come one thought at a time. We will see face-to-face...' Face every single thought. Un-clutch from every single thought.
Your mind will say, 'No, no, no, half an hour I have un-clutched. Now again thoughts are coming.' The un-clutching that happened 30 minutes ago, the un-clutching that happened twenty minutes ago, the un-clutching that happened 10 minutes ago are totally different individual experiences. Why are you connecting all those un-clutching experiences and feeling that this un-clutching and that un-clutching are the same? No!
This moment, what is happening in me is an independent experience.
Please understand, you need to put your whole attention, your whole energy, your whole awareness, only then the click will happen. If that click happens, you are blessed. Because this single click can be used as a key for so many difficulties and problems in your life. It will revolutionize the way in which your mind functions, the way in which you make decisions, the way in which your fears strengthen you, the way in which your desires drive you crazy. The whole thing will be reorganized. The whole thing will be revolutionized.
Live Enlightenment
If you know any big idea or goal which drives you crazy can be replaced, just by a thought of having a cup of coffee, will you have respect for that goal? Will you have respect for that ideal? Suddenly you will see, whatever you thought as a goal does not have any more power over your inner space. Suddenly, you will see a non-moving, immovable, authentic Self arise in you. That is what I call 'living enlightenment'.
Understand, an authentic Being, who does not need the mind to operate the body, is what I call 'living enlightenment'.
Your Being does not need your mind to run your body. If your mind is constantly staying inside you, it is just because of your fear, 'What will happen to me? How will my body run if my mind leaves me?' You don't understand, if your mind leaves you, life will happen in a much better way, in a much more intelligent way.
Your mind is the culprit. Your thinking is the problem. Your dilemma is the suffering. Your movement is the depression. When you sit, if thoughts are arising, just remember, 'Let me un-clutch.' Just unclutch. Tell yourself, 'I am not going to empower this thought by following it, or by fighting it. Let me un-clutch.' Again, in two seconds, one more thought will come. Again say, 'Let me un-clutch.' After few minutes, you will see you are continuously repeating the thought 'un-clutching.' 'I am un-clutching,' 'I am un-clutching'… Then un-clutch from that too. The moment you remember, you immediately un-clutch. Un-clutch from the very idea about you…