What is the mind?
What the mind is doing inside our body?
What it is?
Ordinarily we think that mind is,
something substantial there inside the head.
when we start to think about the mind. We think about the mind and keep on thinking, after we come to a satisfactory answer. we used to decide what we thought of is called mind.
mind is a collection of everything what you have got from the 5 senses. EYE, EARS, SKIN, TONGUE and NOSE.
whatever we SEE, HEAR, TOUCH, TASTE and SMELL goes into the brain and the brain as usually stores it.
(remember that persons who don't have any sense organs functioning from the time of birth, don't knows what it is. example: 1.person without eye don't knows what's light
2.person without ears don't knows what's sound
and so on....)
I HAVE TOLD ABOUT WHAT THE SENSES DO,
BUT,
WHAT DOES THE MIND DO?????? WHAT IS IT??????
but the real truth is,
Mind is just a function, IT IS AN ACTIVITY.
YOU can check this, YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE ME because, that is what is happening right from our birth. mind keeps on popping, always popping the memories inside our brain.
when you are cooking, writing, working, bathing, driving, blogging, surfing, watching TV. Something keeps on going in our mind. AND WHEN YOU START TO THINK WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME ALWAYS, WHEN WHATEVER AND WHEN EVER I DO???
WHEN THIS QUESTION REALLY ARISES IN YOU. THIS POST IS USEFUL TO YOU.... until then its really a waste.
(PLEASE DON'T THINK ABOUT MIND, REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE THINKING WITH THE MIND)
You walk and I say you are walking. What is walking? If you stop, where is walking? If you sit
down, where the walking has gone? Walking is nothing substantial; it is an activity. So while you are
sitting, no one can ask, ”Where you have put your walking? Just now you were walking, so where
the walking has gone?” You will laugh. You will say, ”Walking is not something substantial, it is just
an activity. I can walk. I can again walk and I can stop. It is activity.”
Mind is also activity, but because of the word ”mind”, it appears as if something substantial is there.
It is better to call it ”minding” – just like ”walking”. Mind means ”minding”, mind means thinking. It is
an activity.”
THE SOLUTION IS:::::::::::::::
Patanjali says just look. Let mind go, let mind do whatsoever it is doing. You just look. You don’t
interfere. You just be a witness, you just be an onlooker not concerned, as if the mind doesn’t belong
to you, as if it is not your business, not your concern. Don’t be concerned! Just look and let the
mind flow. It is flowing because of past momentum, because you have always helped it to flow. The
activity has taken its own momentum, so it is flowing. You just don’t cooperate Look, and let the
mind flow.
-Patanjali via OSHO
