Written by Mathew Naismith
To a controlling ego this is going to sound utterly
ridiculous, if you are inactive you are nothing, what would be the point of
existing when you don't act and/or interact?
This is because the ego is all about actions and specifically about
intentional actions, any other response is going to be wrong to an ego that is
controlling. I find this reaction by the
ego strange, so it's alright to express intentional actions and destroy the
Earth at an alarming rate, but it's wrong to live within this reality without
destroying it in any meaningful way. According to a controlling ego, it's even
wrong to balance out our intentional actions with inactions!!
What does inactions, being inactive, actually mean
especially in a spiritual sense?
We need to first look at a cause of an inaction, if the
brain or the mind period, weather it be of the human mind or otherwise, was
active in thought, is this going to help us be inactive? No, this is because
all actions are from the mind or a mind, only through an inactive quietened
mind can we express an inaction. Looking at Earth itself today, it's obvious
most of us haven't learnt to be also inactive therefore less destructive.
This isn't saying that all actions are destructive, only the
minds that are egotistically controlled can be destructive, however, all
actions have an effect on the environment around us no matter what. I recently
had someone say we need to balance out our actions with our inactions, I couldn't
agree more on this, however, is an egotistically controlled mind going to be
able to become inactive, in otherworld's give up it's control on it's
environment? This isn't going to happen mainly because such minds can't
comprehend anything but a controlling ego controlling the mind and our own
actions.
There is however a huge tilt towards quietening the mind
like through meditation for example, a quietened mind is an inactive mind, what
is the physical self doing when the mind is inactive during meditation? It's
totally inactive and in this state it's impacting on it's environment very
little, this means there is nothing being destroyed while in this state. The strange thing is, while in this state of
inactiveness (meditation), your physical self is revitalising itself, it's
basically healing itself. The question is now, would not this quietening on a
global scale also heal this unenlightened consciousness but on a much grander
scale, in other words would it heal the Earth itself and ourselves at the same
time?
This of course isn't going to happen because most people
can't comprehend not being in control of their environment in some way, the ego
needs to be controlling to exist so it influences the mind making anything
other than being controlling incomprehensible. It's quite understandable that
any state of inactiveness is going to be incomprehensible to any mind
controlled by the ego.
You might mistakenly say, by meditating to quieten the mind
and body, one is controlling such things, this isn't actually the case. You are
mindfully and physically becoming inactive from an active state, this doesn't
take any actions at all but to become inactive. Because a lot of people are
unable to quieten themselves in this way, they feel they need to take action to
do so they have an intention to take certain actions to become inactive. I'm sorry but to me this
is counterproductive, you are using actions, a busy mind, to become inactive, a
quietened mind and body.
The trick is to release control over your environment and
specifically yourself, again this is going to sound ridiculous to a mind
controlled by the ego, not taking control over your mind or body would have to
end up badly for us but it doesn't, it's actually the other way around, control
does us more harm than anything inaction can do. This again is going to sound
ridiculous to a controlling ego but I will explain why it's not ridiculous.
What makes us fat and lazy for example? The ego strait away
tells us it's our lack of control over our minds that do this, if you have no
control over your mind, you will just let yourself deteriorate in mind and
body, this controlling ego is a tricky little devil indeed as this isn't the
case at all.
Intentional actions have given us fatty foods, media to lounge
in front of while we are eating such foods and an undesirability to do anything
else but be expressive of such intentional actions. All these intentional
actions that are meant to control us, are all from a controlling ego, now take
away such control, what do you have left? You have a mind and body that is no
longer controlled or controlling, what's then going to happen to such a mind
and body? They are quite automatically going to become inactive to such
control, which like mediation, will quite automatically heal the mind and body,
in other words you will exercise more and eat better to what your mind and body
need, not what a controlling ego desires.
Once gain a controlling ego will say that to exercise and
eat correctly is an action therefore controlling, this couldn't be further from
the truth, it's an inaction to control, which like mediation, automatically
without any intentions heal the body and mind from an over active state
controlled by the controlling ego. All you are doing is releasing yourself from
the control of an over active controlling ego, this doesn't mean you are taking
no action at all, it just means you are balancing out your inactions with your
actions.
The next part I feel is important to understand, instead of
your actions controlling you to cause you harm while in a quietened state, it's
your inactions that are releasing you from the intentional actions of a
controlling ego, automatically healing you without any intentions. It's
important to have no intentions what so ever to what a quietened state is going
to create, just let it happen without trying to be in control in any way.
Having any kind of intentions is of control, try to avoid having intentions at
any cost if you are able.
A true spiritual path is a quietened path for only in our
quietness can we observe!!
PS I should also state, there is a big difference between a
controlling ego and an ego not in control, one is highly destructive and other
isn't, one never lives according or with it's environment and the other
does.
