Are you your mind?
In previous posts , I wrote that we are not the physical body, we are something beyond it.
So now , are we the mental body ? I mean are you your mind?
Let's dig dipper
Once a famous philosopher did a thought experiment , he closed his eyes and tried to think that his body don't exists, he succeeded , then he tried to think that I don't exists , he failed. You try yourself . Then he wrote down "cogito ergo sum"
Means"I think therefore I am". So he means that thinking is necessary for existance . Can you think that you are not thinking ? Of course no. Because thinking of not thinking is also a thinking .
But there exists a state in deeper consciousness when someone becomes thoughtless . Many monks , yogis have achieved it . So thinking is not necessary for existence .
In general mind is described as the thought generater
Actually your mind generally thinks the way it is trained to think . Like..from childhood, the society has taught us many things. For example , object permenece . This term Means that objects which are not disturbed remain there even if you are not observing them. Consider you have kept an apple in the fridge and closed it , now you left the room , there is no evidence that when you were not in the room , the apple was there. without your observations, things may or may not exist where they were left,because you don't really know what is going on in that fridge . But you come after an hour and see the apple was there, now you assume that the apple was there even when you were not observing it . When you play hide and seek with children , sometimes they close their eyes and claim that they are not there.because they believe that what they are observing is only the truth. And because with closed eyes,they can't see their body .while growing up ,they interact with the society and start taking assumptions.
Do you think that direction exists in the world or only in your brain ? Of course it's just an assumption we have made for our comfort .
We make assumptions ,believe them to be true then explain the true things on the basis of that,
Because sun doesn't rises in the east, the line or plane in which sun comes up in our frame of reference is called east .
So it is clear that what generally we consider mind thinks the way the world teaches it , it sometimes argue but finally it comes up with assumptions.
But we existed before the world had taught us something . So that which thing you generally term as mind is not you. Your mind works on the data or memory it has gathered from it experience. It's impossible to think about something beyond your experience . Don't you believe? Try yourself. Try to think a new colour. Can you do ? None can.
Realising that the mind is just a accumulation of your experience and ideas are just the relating one experience to other is the next step towards this journey to yourself.
We will discuss deeper in next post .
Once a famous philosopher did a thought experiment , he closed his eyes and tried to think that his body don't exists, he succeeded , then he tried to think that I don't exists , he failed. You try yourself . Then he wrote down "cogito ergo sum"
Means"I think therefore I am". So he means that thinking is necessary for existance . Can you think that you are not thinking ? Of course no. Because thinking of not thinking is also a thinking .
But there exists a state in deeper consciousness when someone becomes thoughtless . Many monks , yogis have achieved it . So thinking is not necessary for existence .
In general mind is described as the thought generater
Actually your mind generally thinks the way it is trained to think . Like..from childhood, the society has taught us many things. For example , object permenece . This term Means that objects which are not disturbed remain there even if you are not observing them. Consider you have kept an apple in the fridge and closed it , now you left the room , there is no evidence that when you were not in the room , the apple was there. without your observations, things may or may not exist where they were left,because you don't really know what is going on in that fridge . But you come after an hour and see the apple was there, now you assume that the apple was there even when you were not observing it . When you play hide and seek with children , sometimes they close their eyes and claim that they are not there.because they believe that what they are observing is only the truth. And because with closed eyes,they can't see their body .while growing up ,they interact with the society and start taking assumptions.
Do you think that direction exists in the world or only in your brain ? Of course it's just an assumption we have made for our comfort .
We make assumptions ,believe them to be true then explain the true things on the basis of that,
Because sun doesn't rises in the east, the line or plane in which sun comes up in our frame of reference is called east .
So it is clear that what generally we consider mind thinks the way the world teaches it , it sometimes argue but finally it comes up with assumptions.
But we existed before the world had taught us something . So that which thing you generally term as mind is not you. Your mind works on the data or memory it has gathered from it experience. It's impossible to think about something beyond your experience . Don't you believe? Try yourself. Try to think a new colour. Can you do ? None can.
Realising that the mind is just a accumulation of your experience and ideas are just the relating one experience to other is the next step towards this journey to yourself.
We will discuss deeper in next post .
It is great explanation about the topic which you choosed.but the line you mention that we can't think about something witch we not experienced I don't think it is right when I thought about Einstein,Tesla and feradey.
ReplyDeleteRead the next post , I have written about that thing describing more , I think you will believe after reading the post that you really can't think something totally different from experience, all you do is connect the dots
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