What is big mind?

 

If I could accurately explain this in a single word, I would use interconnectedness. 

If I could help to simplify this idea more, I would say that small mind exists within Big mind, and that Big mind can not exist within small mind. 

Inside the small mind, there exists the ego. To access Big Mind, you have to let go of the ego.

This is something that I see a lot of people struggle with when trying to open themselves up to Big Mind. Trying to define your ego is like chasing a shadow. However, the answer is more simple than people make it. In ego death, you open to big mind. Ego death, is much like actual death in the sense that you can no longer implement your will.

So to lose these ideas that you are some individual person that exists in this ocean of life is to connect to the larger self. How to do so is thought…….fully. How to do that is to raise your awareness.

The next time that you sit to meditate, take the time to consider that you can not exist on this planet without the sunlight. That burning ball of gases that seems to rise and fall each day. It is the sun that grows the plants that we all depend on to live and thrive. It's light and heat so strong that it can travel millions of miles and still light and heat our planet. If the sun were to go out, we would stop existing in our human form. All the plants on the earth would die, the planet would go too cold to live on. Without the sun, plants can not turn carbon dioxide into breathable oxygen. The plants would no longer be able to feed the herbivores that help humans to sustain life.

The next time you sit down to eat a piece of bread, consider that it is part of the sunlight that traveled all these miles to give the plant energy. That the wind blew the rain over the field to water it. That its roots grew into the ground to pull the nutrients from the soil. Now that you are going to eat this, ask your self….how are you not the sun, the wind, the earth, and the rain?

Thank you for reading, Phoenix.