Himalaya Putra
2025
From the Chapter 'Mind Age': Mind Matters Most - The Mind Exercise The human mind: the classic enigma wrapped in mystery, a riddle with cunning tricks, a slave to inner enemies of impurities and delusions. The human mind: a warehouse of unused power so vast that wise gods envy life in the human plane of existence. The human mind: a Jekyll-Hyde storehouse of both great and horrific qualities, of the good and garbage gathered across time. No greater puzzle than the unaware mind – lost in shadow lands of apparent realities, a confused mind that cannot see reality, real happiness. The Vipassana light of awareness pierces the darkness of apparent reality - reality penetrating the mind’s dark dungeons like a laser light. Developed to its peak purity, nothing matches the power of the Vipassana light of insight - not even the 500 petawatts laser light from the National Ignition Facility, Livermore, California, USA (500 petawatts is more than 1000 times the total power output from all electric power plants on Earth). Vipassana insight leads to the liberating light of enlightenment –the indescribable state of Nibbana to go beyond the impermanence of mind and matter. This is the ultimate happiness and final freedom. *** Vipassana practice enables realizing how much the mind matters most. Otherwise, the mind misses the obvious. Easy to understand we need to take care of the body with healthy food and exercise. Forgotten, ignored or not realized is the need to take care of the mind. We bathe the body daily but leave the mind carelessly unclean - even as it gathers dirt and dust of days. We take care of bodily injuries as we should, but neglect the mind and its injuries accumulated from heedless thoughts, words, actions and reactions. Exercising the body is good. So too the need to make the mind stronger with the mind exercise of meditation. The mind rules everything in life. Courageous people with a strong mind overcame physical disabilities to serve the world. Helen Keller (188
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