The Word
"In the beginning was the Word"
Words are the constituents of Thoughts
Mastering the Word, is mastering your Thoughts
Prayers, invocations, incantations and mantras all have one base. Words.
“The Secret of change is to focus all of your energy,
not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
– Socrates
By retraining ourselves and establishing a base for enlightened words to be spoken from our Hearts, we establish the necessary foundation for our thoughts to also change. Enlightened thoughts of Wisdom emanate from enlightened words.
If we always speak bad about our selves and our actions, if we always speak in negative terms for other people, then also our thoughts will be negative and will have a binding force rather than a liberating one.
Thoughts are the constituents of the Mind
Mastering your Thoughts, is mastering your Mind
By retraining and paying attention to our thoughts we establish the necessary fertile ground for an enlightened Mind to emerge.
Even if we look at it purely from a scientific point of view, the Mind is a massive neural network. Every time that we generate a thought, this thought is essentially an electrical impulse that travels across a certain set of synapses that connect neurones. The more often we think about a given thought, we are essentially strengthening the synapses that are related to the specific thought-pattern. So fundamentally when we start to change our thoughts and the way we think, we are inherently rewiring our brain and are creating new synapses. This in the beginning is of course a difficult process, but the insight is that how our mind works is fundamentally linked to what thoughts we generate.
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
-Buddha
The Mind is the womb within which the I appears
Mastering your Mind, is mastering your Self
By holding on to the fertile causes and conditions of the enlightened Mind and abandoning the infertile ones, we are able to create a womb within which a new enlightened I-dentity can emerge.
Just like the Buddha said, we are what we think. But we are also how we think. Our actions are a direct result of what and how we think. As such who we are as an identity, as a character, as a persona, is directly causative to this very Mind that underlies the structure of our being. The bodhicitta, or Mind of Liberation, is the necessary and sufficient condition for an enlightened I to emerge.
The I is the filter through which we experience the world, ourselves and others
We don't see things as they are, but as we are.
The Word is the ground for the emotion, the great movement, which delivers the I into the great expanse and liberate us.
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"The realisation and experience of universal Love or God of the Christians
The Atman, Brahman and Vishwarupa of the Hindus
The Mahamudra & Dzogchen of Vajrayana Buddhism
The Nirvana & pure lands of Hynayana Buddhism
The Bhumis of Mahayana Buddhism
The Union of Tantra, Mantra & Yantra of the Tantrics
The Turya of the Yogis
All are rooted and become available to one who has mastered the power of the Word"
- David Verdesi