Why Believing Your Mind Keeps You Stuck
Most people assume their thoughts are accurate. They believe what their mind tells them, often without question. According to Vishrant, this is exactly what keeps people trapped in lower consciousness.
The mind constantly offers opinions, judgments, fears, and conclusions, and most of us treat these as truth. We rarely stop to ask whether what we think is actually real, or simply conditioned programming. As long as the mind is taken at face value, there is no space for genuine inquiry.
For a seeker, this unquestioned trust in thought becomes a serious obstacle.
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The Courage to Doubt
Real investigation begins with doubt.
Not cynical doubt, but open, honest questioning. Vishrant points out that each of us carries a whole collection of belief systems that may be completely disconnected from reality. The only way to discover this is by becoming willing to doubt your own mind.
This is uncomfortable, because people want to be right. They want certainty. To admit “I don’t know” can feel like failure. So, the mind insists on being correct, on holding positions, on defending its stories.
Yet this type of mind cannot support true inner investigation.
Only a mind that is willing to doubt itself can begin to see through itself.
Direct Experience Versus Belief
Vishrant shares that even as a teenager he became aware that many of his beliefs were not based on direct experience. They had simply been inherited from family, religion, schooling, culture, and society. Everyone around him accepted these ideas as truth, yet when he looked honestly, he could not confirm them for himself.
They required faith.
And here lies a subtle trap. Faith can become the enemy of the seeker when it replaces inquiry. Faith stops doubt. Faith closes the door on investigation. It encourages belief without experience.
Vishrant discovered that the only reliable guide was direct experience. If something was known directly, in the present moment, then it could be considered true. Everything else belonged in a “maybe” category.
This approach changes everything. Instead of collecting beliefs, you begin observing your own experience. Instead of repeating ideas, you start discovering truth first-hand.
How Conditioning Shapes the Mind
Most people believe they are meant to know, even when they have never actually experienced what they claim to understand. This creates a false sense of certainty and blocks deeper looking.
The mind itself has been programmed by others who did not truly know who they were. Cultural conditioning, education, religion, and social norms all leave their imprint. When you automatically trust your thoughts, you are often trusting second-hand information passed down through generations of unconsciousness.
At nineteen, Vishrant began systematically questioning every belief that was not grounded in direct experience. He describes this process as deeply freeing. Through it, he also realized how extensively he had been conditioned to accept things that simply were not true.
For the seeker, this questioning becomes essential. Wisdom does not come from adopting new ideas. It comes from understanding how your own mind works, seeing through its patterns, and learning to distinguish what is real from what is imagined.
Developing a Beginner’s Mind
In Buddhism, this openness is called beginner’s mind.
A beginner’s mind does not assume it already knows. It approaches life fresh, without rigid conclusions. It is willing to learn, willing to observe, and willing to admit uncertainty. This mindset dissolves arrogance and creates space for higher consciousness to emerge.
Very few people genuinely doubt their own minds. Most continue believing their thoughts, which keeps them confined to familiar patterns of suffering and limitation.
Vishrant challenges these beliefs to invite genuine inquiry. Doubt, when used consciously, becomes a doorway to truth.
Without it, the journey into higher consciousness cannot truly begin.
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