Does the Mind Try to Tempt Us Away from Being?

During meditation, it felt as though I went deeply into being, then suddenly thoughts about breakfast arose, tempting me out. Is this the mind acting as the serpent from the Garden of Eden? Rupert says: ‘Your being is the kingdom of heaven, or the Garden of Eden. Through force of habit, your mind doesn’t like you to rest in being for too long, because the mind remains outside. The mind feels starved and neglected, and it feels it will die if you spend too long there. So in order to reassert the mind-made identity, the mind will try to take you out. It’s just an old habit. Every time you go back to your being and you rest there, you gradually weaken the power that the mind has to take you away from yourself.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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