In this talk with Caverly Morgan from the Wednesday Night Meditation + Talk, the focus was on Recognizing the Conditioned Mind (A Teaching from The Heart of Who We Are).
Have you ever noticed how the mind is continually asserting that you should be different; that life should be different; that if X, Y, or Z would change, then you would finally be happy? It’s likely that you recognize this storyline as a trap. This storyline belongs to the conditioned mind. The mind that has been shaped and influenced by parents, school, society, culture. The mind that is habituated to think in a particular way. The mind that believes what we were taught: This is how I’m supposed to be. This is how life is supposed to be. The mind that regrets the past and worries about the future. Through practice, we can recognize the conditioned mind for what it is. This recognition frees us to find out: if I am not this conditioned mind, who am I really?
This teaching not only includes a talk, but an exercise as well. This exercise invites direct experience and is a practical tool allowing us to see the conditioned mind for what it is, thus creating the opportunity to disidentify from it.
Some key points that she covered in this meditation and talk are:
• Learning to recognize the voice of “If only…”
• Recognizing our own conditioning.
• Seeing that the conditioned mind is not bad or wrong.
• The value of disidentifying from our conditioning.
• A Practice: Fleshing Out Our Conditioning--A practice tool for seeing beyond the mind of limitation.
• How to step off the train of suffering sooner and sooner-until eventually you won’t be called to board.
• Recognizing that:
You are aware of your conditioning.
You are not your conditioning.
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