11/11/2025
Today's Deep Learning
*Did you know our mind is very adept at creating false and imaginary stories?*
"Your mind is not a 'fact' machine, but a 'fictional and false story' machine—and this machine never stops."
This learning can be life-changing because it exposes us to the truth within our own minds. Let's understand its depth in a simple, clear, and inspiring way:
🧠 **The Depth of This Learning: 5 Key Points**
1. **The Mind's Basic Function: Creating Stories**
Our mind doesn't see reality as it is. It combines every event, experience, or thought with past memories, future fears, and incomplete facts to create a "story." This story is often imaginary, but it feels so real to us that we believe it.
2. **This Machine Never Stops**
This factory of the mind runs 24/7—not stopping for even a second.
- Right now it might be thinking: "This learning is useful" or "This is boring."
- Right now it might be making plans for tomorrow.
- Right now it might be reliving a past event.
Change the question: "Is my mind making up a story?" to "What story is it making up right now?"
3. **90% of worries: Just a figment of imagination**
Most of our worries are scary stories that begin with "What if..."—like horror movies, which never become reality. The mind specializes in these, and they contain no trace of truth, yet they still engulf us.
4. **Feelings are real, but the story is false**
This is the biggest deception: when the mind creates a negative story, the resulting emotions (fear, sadness, anger) are 100% real. The body also responds. We think, "If the feeling is real, then the story must be true too"—but no! The feelings are real, the story can be completely imaginary.
5. **You are not the story, you are the witness**
You are not the story your mind is telling you. You are simply the "listener" or "observer." The next time you hear a negative story, step back and say: "Oh, my mind is replaying its fantasy world!" This distance will give you freedom.
💎 **Today's Powerful Practice**
Whenever anxiety, sadness, or anger arise:
1. **Acknowledge the feeling:** "Yes, I am afraid."
2. **Catch the story:** Recognize the fantasy behind it.
3. **Ask this question:**
**"Do I have 100% concrete proof right now, this very moment, that this story is true?"**
99% of the time, the answer will be: "No, it's just thoughts!"
Repeat this practice, and see how your life becomes calmer and clearer.