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Peace happens only when mind is not.
Mind is muddy; all kinds of relevant and irrelevant thoughts are jumbled there.
The watcher is always above the mind. The watcher is never part of the mind.
The mind is just like a TV screen on which thoughts, dreams, imaginations, projections, desires, and a thousand and one things go on passing. The watcher is not on the screen, he is sitting in the movie hall. But the problem arises when the watcher becomes identified with something on the movie screen.
This is happening continuously in your mind. The whole confusion is that you jump into the drama of the mind, which is just a screen.
If you can keep alert not to become a victim of your thoughts, soon fewer and fewer thoughts will be moving on the screen.
is your identification with thoughts that is creating the confusion.
There is only one peace, and that is when there is no mind. When there is only a watcher and nothing to watch, suddenly everything becomes calm and quiet.
Only this moment is all for the watcher. It is the imagination that needs future, it is memory that needs past, but the watcher is neither imagination nor memory. He is always in the now.
Laugh, relax, and just be in the moment – watching whatever is going on, outside or inside, in the world or in the mind.
You are neither the world nor the mind. You are behind all, just a pure watching consciousness.
Intellect is the functioning of the head, instinct is the functioning of your body, intuition is the functioning of your heart. And behind these three is your being, whose only quality is witnessing.
If you accept the body in its absolute naturalness, it will help you tremendously.
Nourishment to the heart comes from the body. And if your head, your heart and your body are all in a symphony, then to find your being is the easiest thing in the world.
Intellect can be helpful, but it needs consciousness to be its master; otherwise it can behave in a very stupid way. It can misunderstand things, it can misrepresent things. It needs a master to guide it, to give it a sense of direction. That master is your being.
