Beloved Master,
As per my understanding, there are many ways to go beyond the mind. Is psychological therapy one of these ways?
There is only one thing that can lead you beyond the mind: meditation. Psychological therapy can help you understand the mind, but it cannot lead you beyond the mind. So, it cannot lead you directly into the experience but it can help to give you the understanding.
It is like a garden. Psychotherapy is like laying out the soil, but it is not the garden itself. You have to remove the weeds and all the unnecessary dirt. Psychotherapy can do this. But it is meditation that plants the seeds. If you take care of these seeds, they will blossom into beautiful flowers.
Psychotherapy is a good cleaning method, but nothing more than that. In order to go beyond the mind, mediation is necessary. Once you have gone beyond the mind, you have realized your being; you have understood yourself. Meditation is the only possibility for creating the space for going beyond the mind.
You see: there is nothing wrong with psychotherapy. In fact it is good, but only at the initial level. It is good to start with, but it is not an ending. It is a good start for understanding the mind. But in the West, it has been thought of as an end. It has been used as an end. This is why psychotherapy, especially in the West, never feels complete. In the beginning, it brings much clarity; it is a good stepping stone. But when you continue, you are doing nothing useful. It will feel like moving in a circle. The whole point is to get to the end, but where is the question of an end in a circle? Understand? There is no end in a circle. This is why psychotherapy should only be used as a stepping stone and not the final step.
Psychotherapy can be helpful, but it can also be dangerous. It can create a wall between you and the divine. It will help you realize that there is something beyond the mind, but it will not lead you out of the mind. You must be aware of this.
Yes.