The Art Of Going Beyond Your Mind: True Self-Development
When we embark on a journey of self-improvement or personality development, what we are actually doing is cultivating our ego-selves – with the ultimate goal to meet social and biological necessities.
We strive all of our lives to better ourselves emotionally, intellectually, and psychologically in order to deal with society, our desires, and our urges – all by disciplining our minds. Most of the time, we confuse self-development programs with the actual process of knowing our true self: that center within us which is the ground of all our experiences.
Only by watching your true-self shine within will you be able to appreciate your mind and body as bearers of life, not sufferers of circumstances.
Attempting to find our real self through popular self-improvement exercises is futile, because the ground upon which the mind projects itself isn’t located within this content of our minds we attempt to accumulate.
Don’t get trapped in some of these so-called spiritual practices that do nothing but appease our mind-created ego-selves.
It’s only our ever-changing minds and our social constructs that need to be organized and regulated.
The true self needs no improvement because the real you knows neither future nor past.
You – the real self, that center within you, the true definition of who you are – exists only in the present. The ego-self needs the aid of memory to categorize experiences and to act accordingly. The real self is your very being. Accumulation of knowledge about the real self does nothing but add more and more content to your mental space, a mere knowledge warehouse that’s tied together by the thread of memory and offers no sense of enlightenment.
