Mind’s Low Nature ~ You or the Rest of You

Have you ever noticed that sometimes, even in high meditative states, the minds attempts to degrade itself, to initiate lower habits of thinking and conceiving, to recall or invoke memories of trivial matters which if permitted would ruin the meditation session?

Have you ever admitted to yourself that the mind is a basically a low reality, something which, even if it gets the chance to become elevated, even if it is shown a more exalted method of behavior, would again come down to a vulgar level as soon as it could.

I am not talking about physical actions caused by the mind’s control of the physical body, I am talking about purely psychic actions especially the ones which occur in the psyche and which no other person by the very self may perceive. This means what is very private to the self, which only the self usually observes.

Were you ever in a high meditative state, either because you worked to put the mind in that condition or because it just happened spontaneously, and then find that the mind reached out for memories of trivial or vulgar events. Where the mind stole away from the meditative absorption, and grabbed a memory of some event which had no significance or some event which did not happen even but which it constructed mentally or emotionally on the fly?

What did you do when this happened?

Were you helpless where you could do nothing and found yourself following the mind by observing the development of that memory and the constructions of the mind which it created subsequently?

Who is the master of the psyche, you, the observing self, or the rest of you, which is the mind?