MIND CAPTIVITY:

[Pravin Kumar]

Mind Captivity:

Being dependent on anything but life’s essentials creates a bondage that one becomes captive to...this captivity is of the mind and blocks love's guided energy...so you may be alive...but you never truly live...

A substance or object can seem like it holds you in captivity, but it's your own mind that puts you in the place of needing to reach for something. Without the mind telling you something is needed, dependency on anything would be non existent. The subtleness of this captivity is mind boggling. Take an alarm clock as an example, as soon as the alarm rings if the snooze button is hit, instantly you are captive because the mind wants the moment to be in different. This is the way being captive works and if there isn't awareness of this, it’s off to the races of being controlled by a Conditioned Mind that's dependent on wanting things the way that it wants them.

This dependency and captivity takes on many forms: drugs, alcohol, and gambling usage, talking about others, eating habits, pouting or sulking, social status, being miserly (cheap), trying to control situations and people, judging, lust, greed, envy, self righteousness, false pride, and the list goes on, but what all these have in common is they're the external solutions used by the Conditioned Mind to fix an internal problem of lack. Until something is done to allow the mind to settle, this lack will probably be there until the last day of your life in this form. If this happens life will never truly be experienced in the way that it could be. Some dependencies may not seem as devastating as others, but whatever is used it doesn't allow love to be your guided energy. Life can’t be experienced from the captivity of your own mind and because of this, life will never be truly lived. Only love's guided energy allows you to truly live and it's only a binding dependency that holds you in captivity to your own mind and blocks this from occurring.

MICHAEL CUPO