1. The document discusses how our own minds cause us problems through constant streams of thoughts about the past and future, and how we mistakenly identify with our minds instead of realizing we are greater beings. 2. It explains that enlightenment is the end of suffering and achieving a state of inner stillness and oneness with being, which our minds prevent through incessant mental noise. 3. The key is to free yourself from your mind by watching your thoughts and disidentifying from your mind so you can find gaps of no-mind between thoughts.

1. WASTAGE OF THOUGHTS

2. CONTENT
You Are Not Your Mind
The Greatest Obstacle to
Enlightenment
Freeing Yourself from Your Mind
Enlightenment: Rising
aboveThought
Emotion: The Body's Reaction to
Your Mind

3. • It's Not What You Think It Is
• Look beyond the Words
The gift of thought is the most precious thing we
have. Without it, we would just be another species
of animal.

4. 1. we have to come to understand our role as
the creator of our pain; our own mind causes
our problems, not other people, not "the
world out there."
2. It is our own mind, with its nearly constant
stream of thoughts, thinking about the past,
worrying about the future.
3. We make the great mistake of identifying with
our mind, thinking that's who we are - when,
in fact, we are far greater beings.

5. it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as
"the end of suffering."
Mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.
This incessant mental noise prevents you
from finding that realm of inner stillness that is
inseparable from Being.

6. You believe that you are your mind. This is the
delusion. The instrument has taken you over.
FREEING YOURSELF FROM YOUR MIND
watching the thinker.
witness of the thought.
a gap of
"no-mind."
learn to dis identify from your mind.

7. Emotion: The Body's Reaction to
Your Mind
What's going on inside me at this moment?’
NOTHING EXISTS OUTSIDE THE NOW

8. THANK YOU