Do You Mind

    How easy it is to speak your mind, or whatever you think. How can you speak your mind when you don’t know what your mind is?

In the world, we think we know what we are, and what we say and do, yet we never admit to not knowing something.

    The way of the world is something that we like to think we have some input in its creation, and mostly what we create in our world that is based on ignorance. So, does that mean we are ignorant people?

    When everything is taken into account, in the end, we are ignorant not only of what we do but more importantly of what we think and say.

    How can we speak our minds when everything we know is hearsay?

    Ask yourself what is the mind you are talking about; can you describe it? Of course not, because we have no mind as such, for we are only a bundle of memories that we revive and use for making comparisons when making a decision.

    We read about the power of thought, especially when we put our minds to something. We are loose and wordy, believing that words describe our thinking process, and we are only wordy when we do not know what we are writing about. We have been educated to compose our sentences thoughtfully, whereas we are just trained parrots.

    We learn to talk before we write, whereas children mimic others, but through schooling we begin to match shapes with sounds.

    What does it have to do with the mind and is it more than just storing memories and activities?

    It is said that the mind is a container for consciousness, and truthfully, we have no idea of what consciousness is, for unlike the brain, it has no shape or form.

    So, it is another invisible state in our world.

    Again, we say we have emotions that can be defined as what occurs by our reactions to others, and we are told they occur spontaneously and are not learned reactions, but are they?

    Children, as we have seen when learning to talk copy others such as their parents, and it is the same with emotions.

    A parent tells their children to stop doing something and they are naughty, sending them to their room. Later the child plays with their toys having them set around the child and begins to single out a plastic figure and shouts: ‘Stop doing that! Naughty Mary. You are bad and have to be punished, and waving her finger at the figure throws it out of the circle.

    Eventually copying the actions of others becomes a habit with other siblings, and at kindergarten and school that constitutes the behavior patterns that continue throughout and are considered as being emotions that stem from our psyche, where they are learned and conditioned responses.

    We continue to copy others throughout our lives not knowing that our behavior is conditioned and created, and we have no awareness of why we all share the same pain, suffering, and punishment as individuals have accepted as our reality.

    When we are told we are not our bodies, but something more, we say:

    ‘Don’t be foolish, for without a body we would not exist! And do we?

    Is our brain nothing other than a computer that has been ordered by our programming, and is not the body programmed by its illusion?

    Unless we are aware of what constitutes the world, and how we are the creator of this world by our mindless acceptance of perpetual ignorance we will never know what lies beyond this sensual world that we think is real.