Read carefully the definition of 'puppeteer'(from wikipedia):
"A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object—a puppet—in real time to create the illusion of life. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings, rods, wires, electronics or directly by his or her own hands placed inside the puppet or holding it externally. Some puppet styles require puppeteers to work together as a team to create a single puppet character."
You are the puppeteer and your thinking mind is the object that has the illusion of life. You created this mis-identification without your fault or anyone to blame. You have created yourself to be a marionette. You have handed control over to your thinking mind, such as your emotional thoughts and beliefs and past experiences which you believe to be is you, that you think is alive, but is in fact an illusion. You may believe that your mind is your center of who you are and therefore does not really need any deeper improvement. If you choose to not live in ignorance and begin searching for true knowledge about yourself, you will be closer to your real, authentic nature and will climb the ladder towards higher states of awareness. Your personality is not bad and has nothing to do with thinking mind. It is the fear caused by the thinking mind that compromises the personality. These afflictions are the cause of some ignorance within us (that we ignore either deliberately or without our awareness). Because we identify ourselves only with the thinking mind, the behavior and actions we have are mostly out of our control -- especially the emotional behavior which arises within you almost automatically without your control (emotions have a much quicker speed than the intellect, read Slow Down part 1). Therefore ignorance is a delusional sickness.
If we believe the mind to be our center or in control then we fall asleep. We fall asleep in our tunnel vision that we have created, blind to reality and blind to choice. When we do this we have given complete control to the subconscious mind and therefore let it run almost entirely on auto-pilot -- that is why we fall asleep. We have created an emotional puppet and the result is that we are the marionettes. If we want to win control then we must look impersonally at the way we function in life. We must look honestly and observe how our thinking mind behaves and the nature of it. If we look honestly and impersonally, the truth is there. The truth is in understanding our nature. Remember the mind is ONLY the result of the conglomeration of past experiences, emotional thoughts, and beliefs and DNA. This is ignorance because we are much bigger then what the mind attempts to know and the mind is limited in its capabilities because it takes information from your limited 5 senses but then turns it into a 2D image inside your mind. The more you rely on the thinking mind for answers, the more 2D everything becomes and then you are in a dream because a dream is not alive!
This is connected to Duality & Desire which I will be discussing soon.
"We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world."
- The Dhammapada, the sayings of the Buddha
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