Hello! Do you know this line from Dalai Lama,"The Mind is like a parachute - it works best when it's OPEN?"
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Then we all need a reserve parachute as periodically the mind stays closed at the wrong time :-)
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Something I learned in my Yoga class- You take those thoughts or feelings, and you visualize putting them into a big helium balloon, and you let it go and watch it float away, and those feelings go with it. It just takes a moment.
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No! there is no concept in Buddhism that is comparable to formless consciousness or god. \n\n"Primordial awareness", or the "Buddha Mind" is something that is at it's core, fundamentally us. It is the part of us that is unborn, or always present. \n\nTo make this a littler more easy to understand, the human body is made of molecules. These molecules are the same molecules that at some point in time resided in the earth and before that in the dark reaches of space perhaps even within the son or some other star. You could say that the substance of our bodies id Primordial Matter. \n\nLikewise, our consciousness is made up of the physical, biological aspects of our mind as well as the energy of our mind. It is this everlasting energy mind that is the Primordial awareness. It is OUR awareness of the universe and our part within it. When we achieve enlightenment, then we will reside within the Buddha mind, that part of us that is one with the universe. We will be awake to all that is.
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"I love the fact that this is quite obviously a clever joke and not everyone has got it. HE'S IN TWO MINDS AS TO SEEK HELP. COME ON PEOPLE! Pay attention!"\n\nI love the above quote.\n\nAll of the answers up to his were ironic and he didn't get it. Reminds me of someone I used to know, my secret friend, mini me!
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The past is already past.\nDon’t try to regain it.\nThe present does not stay.\nDon’t try to touch it.\n\nFrom moment to moment.\nThe future has not come;\nDon’t think about it\nBeforehand.\n\nWhatever comes to the eye,\nLeave it be.\nThere are no commandments\nTo be kept;\nThere’s no filth to be cleansed.\n\nWith empty mind really\nPenetrated, the dharmas\nHave no life.\n\nWhen you can be like this,\nYou’ve completed\nThe ultimate attainment.\nLayman P’ang (740-808)
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Einstein:  "We cannot solve our problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."\n\nPretty much sums it up, eh?  ;-)
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http://www.dalailama.com/page.4.htm   <<< hope this can give you an idea...read under 'Discovery as Dalai Lama'
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Yes, Buddha says the mind is all and controls all.\n\nIf we control mind ... we control all.
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From a Buddhist perspective...\n\n“We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them”\n- The Dalai Lama -
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http://www.dalailama.com/ < ask him yourself?
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I am tempted to answer with "42" :) Your consciousness control the life (although not so obvious). That is why the self-control techninques like meditaion work so well.
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If you think about it, all the experience we call life is actually our impression of external events, but filtered through the nervous system and the brain. Whatever you see, you see in your brain, also what you touch and what you taste and what you smell, it's all sensed through your brain. That's why taoists say that ultimately, nothing really has an intrinsic "existence", but it's all conveniently rendered into ideas by our thoughts. Anyway, besides that fact, I think there's a factor in your life that is not allowing you too feel 100%. When all your senses are in order you don't become aware of how life seems to be a construction of the psyche. I think you need to do things that make you more "grounded", and you'll get over that. Best thing to do is to spend some time outdoors. Go camping for a couple of nights, or just for a hike outdoors, or visit a farm, or ride a horse or something. All those things make your senses go more into survival mode, therefore relaxing all other anxieties. Just a thought.
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Hunter S. Thompson. The entire quote is: 'Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"' \n\nHope I helped!!
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MEDITATION I.\n\nOF THE THINGS OF WHICH WE MAY DOUBT.\n\n\n1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful; and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions I had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if I desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. To-day, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions], and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions.[L][F]\n\n2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the wholeof these are false--a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach; but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor; but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested.[L][F]\n\n3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us; and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.[L][F]\n\n4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt; as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in my hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty; or clothed [in gold] and purple when destitute of any covering; or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant.[L][F]\n\n5. Though this be true, I must nevertheless here consider that I am a man, and that, consequently, I am in the habit of sleeping, and representing to myself in dreams those same things, or even sometimes others less probable, which the insane think are presented to them in their waking moments. How often have I dreamt that I was in these familiar circumstances, that I was dressed, and occupied this place by the fire, when I was lying undressed in bed? At the present moment, however, I certainly look upon this paper with eyes wide awake; the head which I now move is not asleep; I e
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yes, I too find this subject very interesting.  Recently I have come across the subject on the egoic mind and about living in the present..  I often find it hard to meditate my mind chatters on, The subjec ton the ego trying to take you over and often capturing your mind to stay on the negative is very interesting.  Ekhart Tolles has written a lot about the subject and is worth reading.  Ekhart says ... in order to be happy we have to learn to disidentify with our thoughts and emotions and take a higher stance in witnessing our internal life. That way we shall develop presence in the Here and Now and learn not to be taken away anymore. This is the Mystical Warrior Stance: to remain firmly rooted in the Now and fight all distractions of the mind, out of our deep knowledge that nothing can make us happy and blissful apart from this our own inner Self.\n\nCheck out his website.
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It certainly sounds like something Bohr would have said to Einstein.  Great Quote!
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" The wisest man knows what he doesnt know " - chinese proverb   . I like it because it makes you think and not act like a fool.