Mind Trainer

One should say to the mind,

'Look here, you are my mind, you are my instrument.

You are my slave and servant.

You are here to help me, to work for me in this world.

You have to listen to me.

You will do whatever I wish.

You will think whatever I wish.

You will feel whatever I wish.

You will not think or feel differently from my wishes, for you are my mind and you must prove in the end to be mine.'

By doing this we begin to analyze our mind.

We begin to see where it is wrong and where it is right.

What is wrong in it and what is right in it; whether it is clouded, whether it is rusted, whether it has become too cool or whether it has become over-heated.

We can train it ourselves, in accordance with its condition, and it is we who are the best trainers of our mind, better than anybody else in the world. -- Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Elder's Meditation -- Heart And Mind

The combination of heart and mind is very powerful.
The Medicine Wheel teaches that two worlds exist - the seen and the unseen.
The seen world is the physical and the unseen is the spiritual world.
Both of the worlds are necessary to discover true reality.
The seen world is easiest seen by the male side.
The unseen is easiest seen by the female side.
The heart is the unseen and the mind is the seen.
Blessed is the leader or person who has developed the heart and the mind.
Truly, the person is of tremendous value to the Creator and the people.

My Great Spirit, help me this day to develop

both my female side and my male side.

Let me know all the feelings of each,

let me develop and grow my intuition and my mind.

Let my development only serve You.

An Inner Choice -- Peace

Often we look at the outside world and find it in a state of seeming chaos or disorder.
We feel compelled to transform the situation from one of turmoil into one of peace, yet we are often disappointed in our best attempts to do so.
One reason for this is that we cannot bring to the world what we do not have to offer.
Peace starts in our own minds and hearts, not outside of ourselves, and until its roots are firmly entrenched in our own selves, we cannot manifest it externally.
Once we have found it within, we can share it with our family, our community, and the whole wide world.
Some of us may already be doing just that, but for most of us, the first step is looking within and honestly evaluating the state of our own relationship to peacefulness.
Interestingly, people who manifest peace internally are not different from us; they have chattering thoughts and troubled emotions like we all do.
The difference is that they do not lend their energy to them, so those thoughts and feelings can simply rise and fall like the waves of the ocean without disturbing the deeper waters of peacefulness within.
We all have this ability to choose how we distribute our energy, and practice enables us to grow increasingly more serene as we choose the vibration of peace over the vibration of conflict.
We begin to see our thoughts and feelings as tiny objects on the surface of our being that pose no threat to the deep interior stillness that is the source of peacefulness.
When we find that we are able to locate ourselves more and more in the deeper waters and less on the tumultuous surface of our being, we have discovered a lasting relationship with peace that will enable us to inspire peace beyond ourselves.
Until then, we help the world most by practicing the art of choosing peace within.

-- DailyOM