The Puzzle of the Mind

Finding Stillness in the Noise of the SelfBy Mushin Ru
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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.

Audiobook details

GenrePsychology, Self-Help
Length45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
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
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6The Manifestations of Conflict
14Also By Mushin Ru
7The Influence of the Self
15About the Author
8The Nature of the Motive
16About the Publisher

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