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By Tzvi Freeman

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The mind will always find the answer most convenient for itself. Even when searching for spirituality, for enlightenment, the mind will only rest where there is enough room to remain a mind. Therefore, on its own, it can never come to know the Infinite.

To reach the Infinite takes a sense that is beyond the need to exist, the essential knowledge of the inner soul. Only once the mind has drunken from that fountain can it be trusted to see beyond itself.

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By Tzvi Freeman

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman. To order Tzvi's book, "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here. Rabbi Freeman is available for public speaking and workshops. Read more on his bio page.

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Posted: Aug 5, 2008

A convenient mind

Thank you so much for the answer! I realize no I was using techniques I learned in Yoga where one is to sit for long periods of time thinking of nothing. I have learned to meditate by preparing and then concentrating on Hebrew letters, or say "the Shema" letter by letter. Thank you so much.

Posted By Anonymous, Boca raton, Fl

Posted: Aug 4, 2008

For Boca

You can't feel non-existence--if you are feeling, that means you are feeling that you exist.

What you may be doing is emptying the mind. Emptying the mind as a goal on itself is not a good idea. It's a preface to filling it with good things. But if the focus is simply on emptying, then you are making a vacuum for the wrong things to enter--something like blasting away all the benign bacteria with disinfectants so that the real nasty ones have room to take over.

What's written here about the mind going beyond mind has nothing to do with either of these concepts. It's a matter of the mind visualizing those things it can never really grasp. Chassidus Chabad is a discipline that trains the mind to do this.

Posted By Tzvi Freeman

Posted: Aug 3, 2008

The Convenient Mind

Is it not dangerous for the mind to attempt to go beyond itself? While meditating it is possible to feel non-existence. It is wonderful! But I am fearful each time I try. It is not the desire not to exist. It is the desire to exist only in and for Hashem. It is a wonderous moment, one that is beyond explanation and with a desire not to leave. Is this safe?

Posted By Anonymous, Boca raton, Fl

Getting Past the Mind


	Where the Self Lives


	Snake Poison


	No Limits


	The Escape Hatch


	Unexperience


	Inner Torah


	Supermind


	The Convenient Mind


	A Real Fool


	Being Not That


	Memory


	Mind Over Matter


	A Quiet Heart


	Mind and Heart


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