The Mind Which Perceives Nothing
The mind is not just some tool with which we perceive reality. Perception is the job of the brain. The brain is the device through which the physical universe is filtered, and by integrating and analyzing an almost infinite bombardment of frequencies it helps us construe the idea of "reality."
The mind, however, lies beyond that. In fact, the mind doesn't even perceive at all.
Brain or no brain, the Mind remains.
Perception draws understanding through the use of our senses, but the Mind is that which observes the resulting perception. If one lost the use of all their senses, the Mind would still very much be observing through them, but there is no individual perception to be observed.
If I die, my mind does not die. Saying my mind is folly, anyways, because one can not own mind. Our sense of being is simply a facet of the Great Mind which observes through the lens of our senses and perceives through the supercomputer of the brain.
The mind is not going to disappear simply because this body or brain does. A gamer doesn't die when their character does, they just retry or play a different game. Post-mortem, Mind simply withdraws from an individualized seat of awareness.
The Mind is an expression of the One Great Awareness, which precedes Being entirely. I am, therefore I think. Descartes had it backward.
Each of us, as individuals, are simply using the Universe as a canvas to paint a neverending picture with our experiences. When an artist dies, their art does not die, and nor do the memories and lives that we create while we're here. We are eternal musicians and we've been given this great cosmos to orchestrate an incredible symphony, one note at a time.
Anyways, back to perception. The mind is not that which perceives, nor even that which thinks. Thoughts are generated when awareness is filtered through an individual's lens of perception; two people observing the same situation will think different thoughts. If we're both looking at a canoe and my entire boating experience had been bailing water out of a sinking craft while yours was floating smoothly, we'll be thinking different thoughts.
The mind does not create thoughts, but the observer and their cognizant perception do.
"Nothing is bad, but thinking makes it so." Shakespeare's quote rings true, here, and also illuminates the harmony and balance of Mind.
The mind does not think and thus cannot perceive anything as either good or bad. The concept of good and bad - that great knowledge that we took on when we greedily ate the fruit from the Forbidden Tree - are merely opposing points of perception. Good and bad are the same thing in different proportions, and since the mind doesn't quantify or qualify what it observes it cannot judge anything to be good or bad.
It cannot judge at all. It simply observes. And that's all we are - awareness, housed in human bodies for a while (hopefully not too much longer) because we went a little crazy thinking that this third dimension would be ALL THAT!
The mind, however, lies beyond that. In fact, the mind doesn't even perceive at all.
Brain or no brain, the Mind remains.
Perception draws understanding through the use of our senses, but the Mind is that which observes the resulting perception. If one lost the use of all their senses, the Mind would still very much be observing through them, but there is no individual perception to be observed.
If I die, my mind does not die. Saying my mind is folly, anyways, because one can not own mind. Our sense of being is simply a facet of the Great Mind which observes through the lens of our senses and perceives through the supercomputer of the brain.
The mind is not going to disappear simply because this body or brain does. A gamer doesn't die when their character does, they just retry or play a different game. Post-mortem, Mind simply withdraws from an individualized seat of awareness.
The Mind is an expression of the One Great Awareness, which precedes Being entirely. I am, therefore I think. Descartes had it backward.
Each of us, as individuals, are simply using the Universe as a canvas to paint a neverending picture with our experiences. When an artist dies, their art does not die, and nor do the memories and lives that we create while we're here. We are eternal musicians and we've been given this great cosmos to orchestrate an incredible symphony, one note at a time.
Anyways, back to perception. The mind is not that which perceives, nor even that which thinks. Thoughts are generated when awareness is filtered through an individual's lens of perception; two people observing the same situation will think different thoughts. If we're both looking at a canoe and my entire boating experience had been bailing water out of a sinking craft while yours was floating smoothly, we'll be thinking different thoughts.
The mind does not create thoughts, but the observer and their cognizant perception do.
"Nothing is bad, but thinking makes it so." Shakespeare's quote rings true, here, and also illuminates the harmony and balance of Mind.
The mind does not think and thus cannot perceive anything as either good or bad. The concept of good and bad - that great knowledge that we took on when we greedily ate the fruit from the Forbidden Tree - are merely opposing points of perception. Good and bad are the same thing in different proportions, and since the mind doesn't quantify or qualify what it observes it cannot judge anything to be good or bad.
It cannot judge at all. It simply observes. And that's all we are - awareness, housed in human bodies for a while (hopefully not too much longer) because we went a little crazy thinking that this third dimension would be ALL THAT!
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