The Discipline to Discover Yourself

       "The ex army commander walked into our high school assembly," My companion said, "and we all expected him to relate to us some great hero's story, or some great motivational speech. We only recieved a lecture on the importance of making your bed in the morning.
     "'How can we be successful,' the commander said, "If we've lost the first battle of the day? Make your bed, and the first victory over self is won."

"At first discipline is trying to discipline the body of your physical needs. The second is to discipline your mind. Because if you can control and stand aside from your body and your mind, you discover your essential nature which is the spirit. If you've lost track of that... that is why your are struggling. That is the human condition, to discover our essential nature of the spirit.
     "What is the heart of Hinduism? The Heart of Hinduism is to experience religion. Don't just sit on the sidelines, experience what you are talking about.... You are a spirit my boy. You are that. And through all these various approaches: through rituals through narratives through worshipping, you are trying to regain that essential dignity. You are a spirit. Such lovely stuff doesn't doesn't come out. It lifts all of humanity up to the level of God."  

-London Based Physicist Jay Lakhani     

     1 Corinthians 2: 13-14, 16
     Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
     But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
     For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

     See post on Meditation under Buddhism. Meditation in Buddhism is about conquering the Monkey Mind.


*Sources
     1.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRZzvbhc7ww