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Written by Charles Gibson
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No experience you have, nothing you perceive, ever defines YOU in any way. Any experience is the perception of some kind of thought form, be it in your head as a thought, in the body as a feeling or emotion or in the world as some sense perception. This is all a veil of thought unbroken, but appearing different, the same way the camera film is all plastic but appears to contain different forms.
Who you are is the Consciousness perceiving, not that which is perceived. So nothing you experience, nothing you perceive, ever defines you in any way. You may perceive a mortal individual, with this and that desire, this and that thing to be accomplished but that was never YOU. The perception that this is otherwise, that you are that false individual, is attachment.
Just know that that is all it is, it is just attachment that causes suffering, you are not bound by anything external, you only bind yourself. This is like the story of the man with the donkeys who stopped for the night and had no rope to tie them. Simply going through the motions of tying the donkeys, they believed that they were bound and would not move all night nor in the morning. In order to break this rope, the rope of attachment to thoughts, dont pull against it, resist and struggle with thoughts attempting to subdue them. Why resist and struggle with something that never has anything to do with you?
RELAX and let the rope go slack, let the mind do as it will, just be still, calm and relaxed, there is nothing you have to do. Know that you are in no danger, no matter what the mind comes up with, let it do as it will. This indifference to the mind will develop of itself and attachment will dissapear of itself. Smile and be happy, you are free and always were. The mind may appear otherwise, but you are not the mind, you are not a human being, you are only conscious of a human being.
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