Beyond the Monkey Mind
Tue, Jan 13
|Newport Beach
Transcending Thought to Find the Heart.
Time & Location
Jan 13, 2026, 7:15 PM – 9:15 PM
Newport Beach, 230 Newport Center Dr Ste 235, Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA
About the event
The voice in my head is not me. I am that which chooses to react or not to react to this voice. Realizing this I am free." — Yogi Amandeep
In the yogic world, the mind is described as a monkey that is drunk, bitten by 64,000 scorpions and is possessed by a ghost. This monkey mind creates a thousand thoughts in a blink of an eye. From these thousand thoughts, only one is expressed and the rest enter the subconscious and then the unconscious mind.
This monkey mind is never at rest. It is jumping from past to future, back and forth, from good to bad, right and wrong. The mind is like a chattering box. The very effort to stop it gives it more nourishment to go on. The illusion is the mind itself trying to solve the mind’s problem. But the reality is that even if one…