What is our mind?

Swami Rama
To be creative, you first have to be emotionally balanced, and to attain balance, you have to understand the negative emotions and how they arise. You have to understand how to use self counselling with them. But unless you regulate your primitive urge - food, sex, sleep and self preservation, your theraphy will not work.

You must learn to regulate the time at which you fulfill the urge. You also have to learn to cultivate and understand your positive emotion and then learn to express them through your mind, action and speech.

All actions are controlled by thoughts
All thoughts are controlled by emotions.
By comparison with your emotions, thought has little power, if you can use your emotional power constructively, you can channel it.
Then your emotional power can be utilised in a creative way and lead you to a height that will give you real happiness.

Soul - I tot is the tot that is powerful. Mmm.

Swami Rama
Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Guru Nanak. They were all born as a son of God, just like us.
They were great and powerful because they knew the inner dimensions of life and the laws that motivate them to function. They knew their internal states; they knew their own mind. Like all the great ones, in order to make spiritual progress you first need to understand your own thinking process and there are many levels to understand.

Action
Thoughts
Emotion
Fountains - food, sex, sleep and self preservation

A combination of your emotional life and your thinking process is what you call the mind.
You perceive things in different ways because you receive them from different angles.
The mind is the wall between you and reality. But at the same time, the mind can become the means for you to attain the highest goal in life - to know that dimension of life that is presently unknown to you.

The mind has 2 parts
1. Conscious - very small part, used during waking state
2. Unconscious - hidden, that dreams and sleep. Uncultivated, uncultured and unrefined

Only the great ones who were enlightened because they learned to control the unconscious mind. The sages know how to expand the conscious level of mind until nothing remains unconscious for them.

They expanded their field of the conscious mind and are conscious of that which is unconscious for you. For them, there is no such thing as past, present or future.
For you, because you have no present awareness, there are only past and future. You do not live in the here and now.
Your samskaras come forward constantly in your mind and motivates you to perform new actions in the present.
When this is not the case, then you are thinking about the future.

Soul
I always been fearful of being unconscious. The main crux of my path was to unravel all these unconsciousness so that I am aware and they don't lead my life. To me, they were doors that needs to be open, darkness that need to be cleared. Well, at least I am on the right path n the meditation helps to
consolidate me.
I never knew their power. I thought their power was the way operates us unconsciously.
Yea, the mind is on auto-wheel. Never let up. Everytime I have conquered something and jus started to rest, it will call to me. At first work, then meditation, then partner, then transformation, then others.....non-stop
Yea, I go back to the basic card. There is no need not strive to transform. Just my ego pushing me again.