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  • Recorded on: 29 Mar 2005
  • Language: English
  • Length: 0h 06m

Mind is like a river flowing

Unfulfilled desires retreat into the subconscious, unresolved and ready to reemerge. Even fulfilled desires return there, becoming a formless psychic residue that retains its pain. Meditation can clear mental disturbances, but blocking your inner flow is fatal. For your life's aim, self-discipline is key. It means directing mind, desires, and vision so all energy joins you, leading to a goal that, like the full moon, is always changing. The aim is to change the mind, not to stop its thoughts.

"Fulfilled desires also go to the subconscious."

"Self-discipline means to direct your mind, your desires, and your vision in a particular direction so that all your energy will automatically join you."

Filming location: Brisbane, Australia

What happens to those desires we could not fulfill, even in a dream? They remain unresolved. They retreat back into the subconscious, only to emerge again later. The example of an extreme desire was just one illustration. There are many desires, many things we somehow cannot do. We wish to fulfill them, but we cannot. Even fulfilled desires constantly return to the subconscious. The intellect loses its connection to these desires. They become formless, like a tool in your head. You may not understand them, but the pain is still there—a psychic residue. Fulfilled desires also go to the subconscious. Meditation, according to this yogic exercise or practice, can clear up schizophrenia, anxiety, and sickness. If you block or stop the river of your being, you can die. For the particular aim of your life that you wish to achieve, self-discipline is the key to success. The famous American school of thought always repeats the famous saying: self-discipline is the field of your life. Self-discipline means to direct your mind, your desires, and your vision in a particular direction so that all your energy will automatically join you, leading you to the full moon. The full moon, in turn, is always changing. Our feelings are changing, our imagination is changing, and the mind is constantly changing. The goal is to change the mind, not to control it to the point of stopping your thoughts. If you want your mind to sense desires...

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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