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The Still Mind,
Present Moment,
Open Heart
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For one day, fifty forward-minded thinkers switched off their cell phones, left their ipods at home, and gathered at Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa to experience the Still Mind, Present Moment, Open Heart teaching. The experiential class is taught by its creator Dr. Daniel Condron.
“I’m here today because I think the still mind is the most important message for humanity,” Condron begins the morning session. His accomplishments support his conclusion - a Master of Science with research time in Peru, Doctorates in Divinity and Metaphysics with 30 plus years teaching Mind, two consciousness-expanding trips to India, and superconscious experiences since childhood form the basis of his research.
“You are here from choice,” he tells his audience. “Choice is the result of thoughts. Thought is cause.” The concept is not a new one – Siddhartha who became the Buddha began his teaching with “All that we are is the result of what we have thought” and the Old Testament proverb teaches “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Condron makes the timeless truths accessible in the modern world.
“You can always find sources to tell you what you should believe – friends with advice, coworkers with ideas, analysts with opinions,” he pauses, “then there’s the internet.” His point is today’s world is filled with information on everyone and everything. “The quest becomes, ‘What’s most important to think?’ “
“Not too long ago, I gave an hour and a half talk on the subject of a book I wrote called the Purpose of Life. A woman came up afterwards and asked, ‘So what is the purpose of life?’ I realized she wanted a one-word answer, like love, joy, interconnectedness. People want to know the secret of life and they think its one thing.
“If we want to know who we are, we have to access knowledge about ultimate truth from some source beyond the five physical senses,” he says. The means for that access are the core of Condron’s teachings.
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| For those who might think the day is too much theory, think again.
Condron, author of Permanent Healing, brings up science. “Quantum physics is only 100 years old. From its earliest days, scientists have allowed results to produce bias toward the five senses. They expected specific experiences to get certain results. They had trouble receiving the results of experiments because science became rooted in the idea that the observer does not affect the experiment.”
People do the same thing in their every day life. “One memory can last for years” playing again and again like a rerun, never changing or evolving. “People say, ‘I have a memory of the past.’ They don’t have a past, they have a memory. You can’t do anything with the past.” It is easy to see the science of your thoughts creating your life, when put in this context. That’s part of Condron’s genius.
“Mental discipline is the key to wield the maximum universal truth: Thought is cause. With discipline, you can direct the minds in harmony with universal truth so we and others gain maximum benefit of the time we have on earth.”
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| One theme Condron emphasizes to explain how “thought is cause” works in the everyday world is connectedness, and it’s more than signing up for the latest cell phone network. “Connectedness is the true nature of life. If you want the highest in life, you must think thoughts connected in all reality.”
Toward that end, Condron has consulted the most treasured books on the planet. Raised Christian, he began with the Bible which he read from cover to cover when he was young. Since then, he has read and interpreted the ancient Chinese text the Tao Te Ching, and the Yogi Sutras of Patanjali, a Hindu teacher. He has studied and taught the Buddhist text, the Dhammapada, and the Bhagavad Gita, a part of the world’s longest poem, all for the purpose of distilling the highest teaching of people on the planet.
The commonality of all these scriptures is to “grow in self-knowledge. One way to do this is to put self in the proximity of someone who knows more than you do,” he counsels. “Great people study under great teachers.”
That’s why Condron directs the College of Metaphysics, a 1500-acre campus for full-time study of the mastering consciousness program offered through the School of Metaphysics, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational institute in the United States. The purpose of the school is to accelerate evolution by ushering in intuitive, Spiritual Man.
“All power proceeds from the still mind,” Condron says. “You have to have space created for something to fill that space.” He then tells a parable about the young seeker who travels to the mountains of India in search of the secrets of the universe. Arriving at the Zen master’s abode, he is invited in and offered tea.
The young man is filled with questions. They arise so quickly and in a constant stream that the master has no space to respond.
The master offers to pour the man’s tea. Without missing a beat, the man continues talking while the cup is filled. The master allows the tea to flow over the sides of the cup and onto the floor. The young man begins to sputter, “But you are spilling the tea!”
“Your thoughts are like this tea,” replied the master teacher. “Go and empty your thoughts, then return, for you will be ready to receive.”
For Condron, such emptiness revealed the purpose of life. “After I achieved the still mind, I discovered the present moment. I then began to develop power. I began moving beyond being a teacher to a world teacher. I had a message, I consider the most important for the planet.”
“Some say love, kindness, truth are the most important. I say, How can you know any of those unless you are in the present moment?”
In the first two hours, Condron has people in pairs, face-to-face, repeating three words: “thank you, gratitude”. The effect is potent. Signs of time and aging are visibly washed away from the faces of participants. Wrinkled foreheads smooth, eyes soften, lips relax and assume the natural, curved smile worthy of a da Vinci painting. Participants are on their way to experiencing the thought-free, open-heart state that the still mind brings.•
–reported and written by B. Condron
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