Perhaps the real question is not ‘what is mind’, but rather ‘what is emotion' - that makes one desire to know things - and how does it emerge’?Mind is what leads us into the unknown, and a monistic understanding of that, seems very perennial. – boringguy
What Is Mind?
Moderators: Clemsy, Martin_Weyers, Cindy B.
I think this sentence sums it up perfectly :
'A fish popped out of the water only to be recaptured again. It is as I, a slave to all yet free of everything.'
http://evinnra-evinnra.blogspot.com
http://evinnra-evinnra.blogspot.com
p.s.
This is just to say sorry to Romansh, Neoplato and Nandu as I must admit that I wasn't in a hurry to answer posts in the past couple of days when I could not trust my own understanding of what people actually mean behind their smilies.
This is just to say sorry to Romansh, Neoplato and Nandu as I must admit that I wasn't in a hurry to answer posts in the past couple of days when I could not trust my own understanding of what people actually mean behind their smilies.
'A fish popped out of the water only to be recaptured again. It is as I, a slave to all yet free of everything.'
http://evinnra-evinnra.blogspot.com
http://evinnra-evinnra.blogspot.com
-
- Associate
- Posts: 3395
- Joined: Fri May 31, 2002 12:45 am
- Location: Kerala, the green country
- Contact:
Well, when I use a smiley I generally mean what the smiley represents. The wink, of course, means it is partialy tongue in cheek... which happens in my case many a time.Evinnra wrote:p.s.
This is just to say sorry to Romansh, Neoplato and Nandu as I must admit that I wasn't in a hurry to answer posts in the past couple of days when I could not trust my own understanding of what people actually mean behind their smilies.
Nandu.
Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavanthu
Really Cheers
'A fish popped out of the water only to be recaptured again. It is as I, a slave to all yet free of everything.'
http://evinnra-evinnra.blogspot.com
http://evinnra-evinnra.blogspot.com
-
- Associate
- Posts: 18
- Joined: Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:53 am
- Contact:
I think that most of what we 'know' as mind is just egoic and/or cyclic thoughts – ideas that are in a holding-pattern of sorts, just bouncing around our consciousness... I think very few of us actually access the greater mind, but to me, there's no point where our mind ends and the greater collective mind begins ... it's one and the same ... except that we get so "me" focussed and keep listening to those cyclic old thoughts and belief systems that we actually think that's who we are -- the sum total of who we are. But the possibilities of diving into the collective/cosmic mind are much more exciting (certainly more illuminating!) ... don't you think?
Learn to Live a Life You Love
http://www.facebook.com/ifeelthemagic
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
http://www.facebook.com/ifeelthemagic
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .