(11-10-2019, 06:19 PM)unity100 Wrote: They are both one and the same. Some of you are extremely complicating the thing.
The moment you practice discipline to not do something you want to do at that moment and instead choose to finish what you have been doing, you are exerting a form of control. You are overcoming the desire to do something else with your desire to be disciplined and finish what you are doing.
From early 6th, two paths must converge. You cannot be constantly captive to your mind, just like how you cant be constantly captive to your emotions.
Mind and heart must work together in harmony.
They are not one and the same.
Discipline can be the awareness of things you want to do.
By saying "The moment you practice discipline to not do something you want to do at that moment and instead choose to finish what you have been doing, you are exerting a form of control", you are choosing to focus on only one aspect of it.
Discipline isn't the refraining of acting on a thought.
It's a commitment to holding true to a path or decision.
Control...is our attempt to function, utilizing our ability to channel infinite intelligence...using our own ideas of right and wrong...good and bad. Decisions based in dualism.
In other words...control is an ego based decision.
Discipline is exercising free will, to be in alignment with what we see as a beneficial way of being.
Control is the expectation of a certain result, attached to that focus.
For example...
Discipline, is saying "I choose to love without expectation".
Control...is saying "I choose to love...because that will get me more love, in return"