Befriend the mind, and it will be your best friend

The mind has had experiences. It proceeds only on the basis of experiences it has had. It has nothing else. The little self, the ego is nothing without time. And what it has been doing through the course of time? It has been interacting with the world.

Time means — a relationship now, and a relationship then. Something happening right now, and something happening later on — that is ‘time’. So the mind is all full of experiences. And the mind’s experience has been such that whenever it has wanted to quench it’s thirst, it has never had pure water available. It has never experienced pure water at all.

Probably pure water is something that cannot be experienced. So what has the mind had? Soda water. That when you are thirsty, you should have soda water. Even in soda water, what is the mind really looking for? Water.

So it brings the soda, and in the soda, what is it that it finds useful? The water. But it does not ‘know’ water; water has been outside experience. What has been within experience? Soda water. So now the mind’s conditioning is: when thirsty, get soda water, or some coke, or some canned juice.

Now it’s ‘your’ mind, not really separate from you. I say that the mind is your own shadow, which means that your fundamental desire, and that of the mind cannot be two different. In…