Chapter 1: you are not your mind

El gran error que todos cometemos es identificarnos con nuestros pensamientos, igualar nuestra mente a nuestra identidad. Dejamos que nuestra mente nos use (para resolver problemas) en vez de nosotros usarla a ella. Al separar nuestra identidad de nuestra mente we reach a state in wich we dont take the contents of our mind all that seriously

The mind is a tool and we must learn to use it when necessary and then lay it down. 90% of our toughts are repetitive and useless and bc of its often negative nature most of it is also harmful

There are 2 ways of creating this gap on your mind

• Watching the thinker: estar atentos a mis pensamientos in a non-judmental way. You will start to identify old thoughts that repeat themselves thousands of times, internalize these thoughts and essentially redeem them meaningless. Eventually you will stop from judging the present/future from past experiences
• Be deeply consciouss/aware of the present. This is the essence of meditation. Don't meditate with a goal in mind of reaching a state of mind of peace thatll never work. Be aware of your breathing, the way you wash ur hands, the way your car shakes when it starts up. There is one way to wich you can measure how well you are archieving this and that is the amount of inner peace you are feeling

All creative thinking comes from a place of "no mind" or pressence (def the reason why I like playing and making music so much)

Emotions are a physical maniffestation of what the mind is thinking

Chapter 2: consciousness: the way out of pain

Pain comes when the mind reduces the present as a means to get to somewhere in the future. Pain is amplified when you try to reduce it

The present may be very unpleasent* whatever the present moment contains worm with it as if you have chosen it, always work with it not agaisnt it. Be grateful.

Pain come in 2 ways: dormant and awake
Dormant pain builds up and doesn't manifest
Awoken pain manifests physically

Pain clinges to survive as any other being. Once the pain body has take you over you want more pain. You either want to inflict pain or want to suffer pain or both. You may say you dont want more pain but your thinking and behavior says otherwise.

Pain survives when you unconsciously identify with it

When dealing with pain:

• Focus the feeling inside you, know that it is the pain body, accept that it is there
• Don't let the feeling turn into thinking, don't judge or analyze
• Do t make an identity for yourself out of it
• Stay present and continue to be the observer inside of you, be the silent watcher

The secret of life is to die before you die and to find that there is no death

Chapter 3 moving into the now

The past seeks to create an identity and the future promises prosperity, both ilusions.

Now is all we have there is nothing more real than the now, nothing happened it the past, it happens in the now, nothing will ever happen in the future it will happen in the now. The past is a memory trace you relive in the now, the futute is a imaginary situation of the now.

Learn to use time in a practical way and when you are done using it come back to present; learbing from the past to avoid the same mistakes predicting the future by recognizing patterns and math laws etc. AVOID identificatition with the past and compulsive speculation/dreaming of the future. Use clock time and avoid psycological time

Ask urslef is ther joy and easy in what im doing? If there isnt time is covering up the moment. As soon as you honor the present moment life becomes easy

Chapter 4 .mind strategies for avoiding the now

When a problem or "life situation arrives it pulls unconscious prople into more unconsciousness and makes consciouss people even stronger

Chapter 5: the state of presence

I wonder what my next thought is going to be?
When you are highly present yu are free of thought, yet still highly aware

There are 2 types of waiting: one in wich you deny the present and anticipate the future and one that requires your total alertness in wich anything can happen and if you are not totally alert you will miss it.

A lot of ppl cant appreciate the beauty of nature bc they are so in their head, they might say "what a pretty flower" as a label they already have in their head but dont truly see the flower, its essence

Listen to the silence of things as a technique to become present. Even when there is noise the is silence underneath, lookout for the pauses of someone speaking,

Chapter 6

The outer body gets old and breaks down fast but the inner body can be timeless,

Being present helps against aging

Chapter 8 relashionships

When a person has a false sense of self, needy and looking to identify with external things (aka ego) and a "special relashionship comes" you become adicted to it, to the validation and sense of being needed, you define your identity with the person you are in love with. When the other person fails to act as you ego needs, the fear, anger and jealousy of the egoic state that was covered up by the love relashionship now resurface. Just like a drug you cover the negative emotions like a high when the drug is available but when the drugs stop working the same feeling come back even stronger but now you perceive your partner as the cause.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Wheter you are addicted to drugs or a person you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain. When the initial uphoria passes there is a lot of unhappiness in intimate relawhionships, they dont cause pain and unhappines but rather bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you.

Avoiding relashionships in an attempt to avoid pain is not the answer either, the pain is there anyway. 3 failed relashionships in whatever period of time is more likely to force you in making a change in yourself then 3 years of loneliness, however bringing attention to your loneliness to become present would also work too.

The moment judgement stops thro acceptance of the mind you are free from it. First you stop judging urself and then you stop judging your partner