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Big Mind Small Mind - How When You Learn To Wield The One With The Other You Will Come To Know What Limitless Living Is All Abou

Written by Grant Storey

Topic: EmpowermentPublished February 21, 2008
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Big Mind, Small Mind
How when you learn to wield the one with the other you will come to know what limitless living is really about
From ‘The incredible teachings of Hang Sen’ Wisdom that Works™ series.

Download your free e-book ‘the incredible teachings of Hang Sen’ simply by clicking here www.win-within.com/thankyounnBig Mind and Small Mind:

We were walking in the rain, breathing in the heady scent of the washed earth that clung to our bare feet as we strode languidly through the forest which surrounds Hang Sen’s house. I had come seeking his counsel and, as usual, the old man was more than willing to provide me with a teaching.
Hang Sen moved ahead of me in silence, leading me onward to a place I had not been with him before. I allowed myself to enjoy the playful stroking of the rain on my skin and to listen to the liquid whisper of the drenched forest.
After a while we came to an opening set into a cliff. It was a cave and I followed Hang Sen inside and waited as he laid out two blankets and lit some candles. We sat down and the lesson began.

Hang Sen told me to close my eyes and to relaxn“Observe your breathing for now,” Hang Sen said quietly “become still and calm and watch your thinking”
“You mean, watch my thoughts” I replied, meaning to correct him.
“No” he replied “Watch your thinking. Watch the entire process of yourself as a thinking being and perhaps you will discover something interesting”
I opened my eyes and saw the old man smiling disarmingly at me. It was a smile laced with a hint of mischief, yet his eyes, as always were two compassionate gems set in a face of pure peace and wisdom.
I closed my eyes and set about ‘watching my thinking’.
I began by watching my breathing; observing the gentle intake of air and the rising of my chest and belly as I breathed in and the warm rush of breath as I exhaled, allowing my body to deflate. Again and again I observed my breathing in this way, trying as best I could to detach from every thought as it arose in consciousness. As each thought would pop up I would merely acknowledge it but try not to attach or be carried away by it.
I sat like this for perhaps ten or fifteen minutes, always with Hang Sen’s command to ‘watch myself thinking’ guiding this entire process.
Gradually my thoughts slowed and I became completely immersed in stillness. It was then that I experienced a gentle shift in my perception. I felt as if I were now removed from merely watching the thoughts themselves and was now actually watching myself thinking. I was watching the thinking process itself from outside of it.
It was at this point that Hang Sen’s voice drifted into my awareness n“Observe closely what your thinking is’ he directed ‘Observe also what is observing yourself as a thinking being”
I realized then that I was actually two minds at the same time; one mind I knew was the thinking, rational mind of my everyday life wherei
I placed my identity and from where everything in my life - my thoughts, my feelings, my actions and my experiences stemmed from. But encompassing and permeating this ‘small mind’ was a mind that was incomprehensibly vast, pure and brimming with wisdom and infinite possibility. It was a mind which expanded in a way that did not seem to adhere to any time-space restriction. It was boundless. This mind was a mind that was not of thought because it was beyond thought yet it contained the thinking mind. It was aware of itself and aware of the small mind - it was aware of its identity and yet assumed no identity at all. n“That is your Big-Mind” Hang Sen explained as I sat utterly mesmerized. n“Big mind cannot be experienced through rationality. It cannot be locked into a definition through words or thoughts because it is beyond rationality and words and thoughts and yet it encompasses all these things!” he said.
As I rested in the state of big mind I was able to see this ‘small mind’ before me as a ball of spinning, sparkling energy – as if the mind itself was a small ball of electric energy with thoughts flashing around like lightning from the clouds of contemplation - My ego spun before me like an electric egg! n“Your small mind is a tool. That is all” Hang Sen explained ‘ but because it is the ‘thinking part’ of you, you and many others like yourself fall into the trap of believing that that spinning egg of your small mind IS WHO YOU ARE! Your small mind is not who you are, it is only who you ‘think’ you are and herein lies the basis of all limitation you experience in your life’ n‘Your small mind’ he continued ‘is a tool which, when wielded by the big mind, can bring about everything and anything you can possibly imagine. There are no limits as to what you can achieve or accomplish. There is no restriction as to what you can be or do – there are only limits as to what you think you can accomplish, or be or do. When you place your identity in your small mind you become the tool.’
Hang Sen paused and gazed intently at me with those piercing black eyes of hisn‘When your small mind controls your life then you are bound by its limitations. When your big mind wields your small mind, there are no limitations whatsoever because you are wielding that infinitely powerful tool from a place of limitless potentiality. The question is - Are you the one wielding your small mind or is your small mind wielding you?’
Think over this well’ Hang Sen said finally before standing up and striding out into the curtain of silver rainfall and the watery applause of the forest.

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Yours in limitless living
Grant Storeynwww.win-within.com/thankyoun

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