March 25, 2017

Mind versus consciousness

Mind is the unreal you.
Consciousness is the Real You.

Mind lives in past and future.
Consciousness lives in present.

Mind thinks, chatters constantly.
Consciousness watches, feels, lives.

The source of mind is knowledge and memory.
The seed of consciousness is silence and existence.

Mind is in the absence of consciousness.
Consciousness is in the absence of mind.
You are when consciousness is.
You are not when mind is.

You are temporarily dead, when mind is.
You live when consciousness is.

Mind creates doubts, questions, worries and stress.
Consciousness clears all these.
And rejoices at truth.

Mind wanders through what you know.
Within those borders.
Consciousness transcends all.
Lives in infinite space.

You, with everlasting consciousness
Is the awakened one.
You, with chattering mind
Is the Dead One.