Master, How Does The Mind Control Human Beings?

Student (S)

Master (M)

S: Master, how is it that the mind controls human beings?

M: It finds his wounds and sticks its finger in them.

S: Why does it do so, Master?

M: Because it is untamed.

S: Is it evil?

M: It is untamed.

S: Why is it untamed?

M: Because man allows it to carry on, unchecked.

S: Why does man not tame it?

M: Because he does not recognize that it is untamed.

S: What does he think it to be?

M: He thinks it to be normal and natural. Why would anyone attempt to change something that is normal and natural?

S: Why does he believe it to be normal and natural?

M: Because the minds of everyone around him are also untamed.

S: So, the mind pokes a finger in man’s wounds because it is untamed. Is this correct, Master?

M: Yes, my student.

S: What else does the mind do to control human beings?

M: It infiltrates man’s innermost being and whispers lies to him. And because the sound of the words comes from an inward direction, man believes they are coming from himself.

S: Ingenious is this mind.

M: It is indeed, my student.

S: What if man attempts to fix the mind?

M: The mind recognizes this and puts a stop to it.

S: How?

M: By posing as the fixer.

S: Wow! . . . How else does the mind control man, Master?

M: It bombards him with wayward thoughts.

S: What does this do, Master?

M: It keeps man slightly off balance. As he gropes through the barrage of thoughts, his visibility is limited. And he sees things askew.

S: Master, this is warfare, is it not?

M: You haven’t the slightest idea, student, as to the extent of this warfare.

S: Man is at war and does not even realize it?

M: Man recognizes only the wars of nations. They are but a pittance as compared to the war that rages within him. It is, in fact, the latter that creates the former.

S: Is this what led you to seek Wisdom, Master?

M: This is what led me to seek Freedom, student.

S: For the whole of his life, man is at war?

M: Every minute of every day, my student. But the genius of this war is that although it occurs right before a man’s eyes, it occurs behind the eyes rather than in front of the eyes. Making it difficult to recognize as self vs self.

S: I am fascinated by this, Master.

M: That too is Mind.

S: Is anything that I speak not from the mind?

M: Your every thought, word, and action is of the mind.

S: Can this be put to an end?

M: Yes.

S: How?

M: You are not yet ready for this answer, my student.

S: Why do you say this?

M: In looking into your eyes, in hearing the quality of your voice, and in sensing the nature of your words, I smell the fragrance of the mind.

S: Tell me, Master. How is it that mind knows the location of a man’s wounds.

M: Why would it not, student?

S: Do you mean because it is so keen?

M: I mean because it was the one who created the wounds to start.

S: Master, what is the most ingenious creation of the mind?

M: The creation of a student asking his master how to be free of it.