“Every Microcosm is an hibernated Macrocosm”. Or, putting it in another way, Mind is a distorted projection of Consciousness.
From both this perspectives, we can draw the same conclusion, that the fundamental nature of everything is, in fact, just One.
A common example to explain this is to imagine a rainy night, where puddles of water accumulate on the floor, and countless moons can be seen reflected, while just one moon exists.
Depending on the cleanliness and turbulence of the water in each pond, the reflection can be more or less similar to the real moon. In the same way, the jumble of vibrations, thoughts, desires, fears, complexes, etc, that we carry with us all the time, create more and more distortions in our mind, making it more and more difficult to see that reflection of pure consciousness.
We are in an age were millions of people are getting more and more focused on personal development, working to understand complex psychic processes of their minds, trying to solve fears, emotional blocks, and others. While I have no objection to any of this (I have my fair dosage too), I’d like to point out the other-side of the equation.
Everything that makes us who we are, is a distortion of consciousness. Every virtue or vice, pleasure or pain, like or dislike. Plainly speaking, if we did not have any of these at all, we would simply cease to be, as there would be nothing to seperate the mind from its original source (consciousness).
In the process of spiritual evolution, we are aiming to return to that state. Hence, the mind has, imperatively, to get herself free from those bondages. And as a spiritual aspirant progresses further and further, and is able to tear way those limitations, his mind will experience a greater degree of freedom from those mental attributes.
I often like to mention, as an example, the case of Detachment. You’ll see it very often advertised as a kind of new-age thing, that is very “cool”, and we should all practice and train it in order to avoid suffering. In my experience, “training” detachment is a pure waste of time as it is something that can not be artificially implanted on you. True detachment comes in the most natural of ways, once the mind elevates itself and is able to “see” a bit more of what is reality. You don’t even need to care about detachment, it will just be there.
In the same line of thought, we should perhaps spend less time and worries in trying to “fix” our mind’s problems, and more time elevating the mind to a state where it automatically becomes free from them.
Just imagine a comet approaching the sun. As it gets closer and closer, the sun’s heat will start consuming the comet, that begins to desintegrate, until nothing else is left and it just merges with the sun.
Or, like Rumi put it: “I once had a thousand desires. But in my desire to know You, all else melted away”
Under the Tamarind Tree 