The Direction of Intention

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When the mind is searching for an answer it needs a focal point – it needs to attach to something. It needs to make a story. It buys self-help books. It looks for answers in experts and gurus and teachers and preachers and therapists and astrologers and the I-Ching. It seeks answers in the eyes of its lover and its friends. It will turn over every stone, try every diet, chant every affirmation, make every accusation, and grasp onto anything that hints at an answer only to find the answer empty, to think it caught the prize only to discover air in its hands. Slowly the story changes.

A mind seeking answers is usually a mind rooted in a fear story. Fear is like a drug; once the mind attaches to it the mind needs it – fear makes for an easy story because a mind on fear will always play the Victim in the story. It eats it up! Victim is a juicy role and easy to play.

The problem/opportunity with a fear story, like all other drugs, is that fear eats what attaches to it. Consume fear and it will consume you. When the price of the Victim story becomes too high to pay, the story changes.

Eventually the mind recognizes that the answer it seeks is not out there but in here and the focal point becomes the mind itself. A mind focusing on itself enters a warrior phase (when the mind goes to war with itself). Eventually recognizing that there is no answer, no one need be right or wrong, no one need lose or win, the mind relaxes. All of that seeking only to find that all roads return to your Self! There is surrender all the way around, the weapons of comparison and perfection are placed in museums. It is at this place that the focal point of the mind returns to the body/experience. No interpretation necessary! The story fog dissipates; the mind releases the zany notion that it can control, and seeing returns.

The Victim. The Warrior. The Seer. All are necessary roles. Most of us are playing Victims or at war with ourselves. Where you place your focus will determine the play you are performing. What is your play?

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