Mind Is a Tool of Awareness · Don't Fixate It for Your Nest
⁘ “The mind in itself isn't fundamentally problematic. It's just an instrument of awareness. It breaks down when you incessantly meddle with it, battling the workings of nature. It settles in its own terms as you let it settle. Leave the wrestling, release and let it be as it must. You will be more at peace and find more clarity. If action is called for, then let the mind act as it must. You need not be there at the prime driver's seat. You are not the mind.”
It's not that the mind in itself
is fundamentally problematic.
It's simply an instrument of awareness,
but it becomes broken when
you incessantly meddle with it,
try to turn it into something that
it is not in nature's course.
It will settle in its own terms as you let it settle.
Too much effort in quest for
your peace of mind is counterproductive.
Leave the wrestling, let it be –
you will be more at peace.
In that peace, you will find clarity –
and with that clarity,
you will find peace.
In that clarity and peace,
in acknowledging "it is as it is",
whatever that it is, let it be.
If action is called for by the environment,
then let it act as it must.
You need not be there at the prime driver's seat,
forgetting all the rest of what you are,
and what you are not.
What you are not is a permanent entity
with a fixed framing in a specific role.
Let those be, let those operate unto themselves
without establishing your nest in any of them.