A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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http://www.visibleorigami.com/2022/10/people-argue-because-they-think-they.html

People argue because they think they know. People who know that they do not know... do not argue. Stress is the major killer. It is at the root of most maladies. It is not often linked with Frustration, but... Frustration is one of the main causes of Stress. Ah... the Hells of unrequited desire. We want what we cannot have and scheme to get it, only to find it was not what we thought it was. Everything is a front for what is concealed within. So... what you got in this wasteland of runaway desires and mind fevers is... a Hollywood house. If you go through the door there is nothing but two-by-fours propping up the false front.

All of us have a false front. Most of us are a Hollywood house. Very few of us shine with the incandescence of The Indwelling Light. Guru Bawa was one of those. He glowed like a lightning bug all over. You could see it. It was palpable and real. I have had a few Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women. He was one of them. I got Wisdom from him that continues to this day. It was he who told me about The Dog of Desire and The Monkey Mind.

I like to think of my monkey mind as Hanuman. Was he not The Monkey Mind of Rama? It seems so to me. How many other meanings of that force could there be? Hanuman is The Realized Mind. You can ALSO have a realized heart. It seems to me that the male aspect personifies The Realized Mind, and the female aspect personifies The Realized Heart. Man or Woman can have both when you become them both. When The Heart swallows The Mind.