On 26 November 2022, I wrote down this sentence: “You are not the master, mind! I am the mastermind.” I used it during meditation as a reminder to step back from my thoughts.
Why that wording helped me
The phrase turns “mastermind” into “master” and “mind”. In my original explanation, I described the mind as a tool and referred to my higher self as the one using it. That is my spiritual framing of the experience, not a scientific claim about separate parts of a person.
I wrote that the reminder helped me calm the mind and identify less closely with its activity. This is what I reported about my practice. I am not promising that repeating it will have the same effect for everyone.
What I can say about authorship
In the original post, I said a Google search had returned no results for the phrase and therefore claimed it as my own. The date of my post documents when I published it. A search with no results cannot establish that nobody used similar words before.
I can accurately call it the wording I used and wrote down that day. I cannot establish that it was the first use in history.
A reminder rather than another argument
For me, the point was to loosen my identification with a thought, not to win a debate against it. Turning the sentence into an order to have no thoughts would add another struggle to the practice I was describing.
The phrase is personal and a little playful. Its value in my account comes from how I used it, not from proving ownership of the words.
