Buddha Amritwani, Gautam Buddha Story: Mind is very fickle, that’s why it remains restless and as long as there is restlessness in the mind, the person will be surrounded by thousands of questions. Until the person does not get the answers to the questions running in his mind, his mind will remain restless. But the main question is how to control the mind and how to understand the mind?
In this story of Gautam Buddha, he has told about 6 steps to know the mind. You cannot understand the mind without knowing the initial 5 steps. Know about this story.
Story of Gautam Buddha related to knowing the mind
Once a man went to Gautama Buddha and asked, what is the first step in controlling the mind? Buddha says- The first step to understanding your mind is to see the futility of the greed it gives. Because when the mind is partial, it gives many types of greed, the one who has recognized these greeds given by the mind, he has understood the mind. Then the person asks Buddha, but how do we know that our mind is tempting us and that greed is in vain? Answering this, Buddha says- ‘From experience.’
The work that a man does excessively due to the greed of the mind, he only gets loss in it and only after the loss, he also experiences it. Like, one who has truly seen that intoxication is only misery, he will begin to be free from intoxication, one who has realized that envy destroys himself, will be free from envy. This is the first step in understanding the mind.
Buddha explains the second stage of knowing the mind
One asks the Buddha, if one knows from the first stage that one is suffering because of the temptations of the mind, then what is the second stage? Buddha says- ‘going on a quest’. For the second step, one has to go in search of such a person, who has already become free from it by knowing his mind. Because only he will be able to guide you.
Buddha explains the third way to know the mind
The person says, but how will such a person be identified? Buddha says – this is the third step. ‘Listening’ is the third step to understand your mind. The person says, can’t it be known by looking at it. Buddha says- A person can look very calm and nice to see. But what is inside his mind, it is known only by his words. But one should not believe anyone’s words until it passes the test of your conscience.
The fourth step is to do ‘karma’
Buddha says. ‘Karma’ is the fourth step in understanding the mind. To know oneself it is necessary to work in the right direction. But every time a person commits two mistakes while doing his work. The first mistake is not starting at all and the second mistake is not going all the way. Behind both these mistakes is the trick of our ‘mind’.
That’s why a person is unable to fulfill his work. Because he thinks that I will start from tomorrow then someone thinks that I will fail. The main reason for these mistakes is lack of awareness. Without this, the mind does not allow the person to walk in the right direction.
The fifth law of knowing the mind is ‘awareness’
Buddha says that the fifth stage of knowing and understanding the mind is ‘awareness’. That’s why do every work with awareness. An act done or a moment lived without awareness is like death. The man asks the Buddha – How can one raise one’s level of awareness? Buddha says ‘meditation’.
Meditation is the last step to know, understand and control the mind. Means ‘meditation’ is the only boat on which the river of mind can be crossed. The person who has come to know meditation through these initial 5 steps has come to know his own mind.
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