You and the Garden
You are not the mind, you are the one using it and the one who visits it. The mind is both a tool and a place; it’s your sharpest weapon and your most beautiful garden.
But you’re above the mind. You are that thing that is experiencing all that is sorrowful and all that is beautiful, the one who has witnessed all the highs and all the dawns. The subjective experience perceiving the colors, the sounds, the smells, the tastes and the touches; the one observing the thoughts.
You are that pure will, those eyes full of wonder. You are the one that wants to create, to experience, to love; the fuel that mobilizes your hands, your eyes; you’re the one that chooses, the one that is above the conditioned existence, the one that transcends the series of causes and effects of our physical universe.
Taking Care of the Garden (And the Strength of the Soul)
If you realize this, you will notice that the most important and sacred muscle is not in your arms, is not in your legs and is not in your torso: it’s the strength of the soul.
You need to develop it to effectively control your mind. Through this muscle you will make of your mind a beautiful, well organized garden. A well cared place to be, a perfect tool to wield.
Will you let that pretty and promising seed that appeared over there grow? Will you feed it and water it? What about that big and noble tree that accompanied you for so long? Will you take care of it? And those beautiful flowers that you wanted to cultivate over there?
From time to time a darkness will appear on this garden, like a black substance contaminating the air. It will attempt to envelop you, to make you forget what you truly are. Dark impulses, feelings and thoughts will arise, clouding your judgment, against your true will, it will try to make you believe its will is yours. It will attempt to fill you with doubt and with fear, destabilizing the mind. It wants to take control over the garden, to consume it. The stronger you become as your life unfolds, the stronger it wants to take it from you; the more it wants to stop you, the more it wants to destroy the garden.
Keep a firm grasp on the mind, don’t let that darkness proliferate out of control, don’t let it fool you. Dissipate it through your awareness of it, as you observe it and choose to discard it, as you remember your true essence and what you really want from the deepness of your heart, it will fade away.
As your garden grows and becomes more beautiful, as your soul becomes stronger and learns to keep the darkness under control, you will rise above the world and detach from this mundane existence, and through this, peace and bliss will be found.
So, keep your garden well groomed, protect it from the darkness, and advance forward, always forward.