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The Puzzle of the Mind

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The Puzzle of the Mind

Finding Stillness in the Noise of the SelfMushin Ru

The Puzzle of the Mind

Length45m

About this audiobook

There comes a quiet moment — often unnoticed — when we stop questioning the world and begin questioning the eye that sees it. The Puzzled Mind meets that moment. This book is not a teaching, method, or belief to adopt. It is a subtle unraveling — an invitation to look directly at the structure of the self: its memories, desires, conflicts, and hopes, and to notice what is not in order to recognize what is. As the third part of the trilogy, following The Train of Thought and Conversations with Nature, this book turns toward the root of inner conflict. By exploring the illusions of striving and the quiet pain beneath hope, it reveals how attachment to the self creates division — within, and therefore without. Here, awareness becomes the path. Not to improve the self, but to see through it. This is a book to be read slowly, without expectation. It does not promise peace. It reveals what keeps peace away. When what is not falls away, what remains is what is.

Psychological

Identity

Healing

Memory

Grief

Audiobook details

GenrePsychology, Self-Help

Length45 mins

Publish dateNov 27, 2020

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Title Page

9The Nature of the Purpose

2Copyright Page

10Conflict Versus Evolution

3Introduction

11Behind the Work

4The Memory of the Self

12Sign up for Mushin Ru's Mailing List

5Two Sides of the Same Coin

13Further Reading: The Twelve Keys

6The Manifestations of Conflict

14Also By Mushin Ru

7The Influence of the Self

15About the Author

8The Nature of the Motive

16About the Publisher

About the author

Mushin Ru

Mushin Ru

Mushin Ru writes from silence. Not to teach, but to remind. Rooted beyond belief systems, his words speak to what we already know but have forgotten. With clarity, honesty, and true presence, he walks alongside the collapse of false structures—not to rebuild the illusion, but to call us back to what was true all along.View all audiobooks by Mushin Ru

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