MIND VERSUS US
51When you are able to silence your mind, you free yourself from the negative habits and attitude.
When you silence your mind, at least for some time, you realize that you are not the mind. It is a sort of energy that occupies your attention incessantly. For someone who encounters this approach for the first time , it may sound weird and silly. Someone who has practice meditation for sometime will understand and accept these words. From this inner silence you can look at the mind, understand what it is and come to know its nature and how it works.
The mind usually suggest all kinds of reasons and excuses why its better not to bring it under control. It wants to be free and roam wherever it likes. It believes that if it is silenced, life will cease to be. It can't accept that life can go without its incessant chatter and inner dialogues. The moment it is silenced it doesn't participate in what happens after the silence. Therefore it can't think about the state it has never experienced.
When mind is made quiet, the spirit , consciousness and creative power steps in. they always exist in us and its our true consciousness, which we have forgotten .
It is appropriate for one learn how to read his own mind and how to switch it off and on whenever he need, for this build up our confidence and happiness. When the mind and its thoughts are quiet we are able to use it in a most effective way
