23/07/2025
Understanding our mind is perhaps one of the greatest challenges for modern science and each of us personally. It is the human mind that generates outstanding achievements in science, medicine, arts and engineering, but it is the same mind that can produce the most awful atrocities and acts of greed.
It is our mind that will creates grasping, selfishness, pitting, collaboration conflicts; or an open, reflective, cooperative, and sharing approach to life's difficulties.
Imagine a scenario of a Doctor seeing a new patient. First, Doctor must pay attention to the pain and suffering of their patients in order to identify the root cause of it. However, once they have pinpointed the problem, they then turn their attention to what will relieve it. They draw on their knowledge and experience in order to prescribe a treatment that will bring about healing. (Deep study and Understanding is imperative)
Developing Mindfulness and Self-awareness is like becoming our own Doctors and healers. We cultivate and develop the ability to engage with what is painful and seek to understand its roots. It is what Buddhism talks about in its doctrine of the 'Four Noble Truths'.
It is our minds that are the source of our own personal experiences of happiness and joy, or anxiety, misery and despair.
Knowing the causes and conditions leading to happiness or misery is important.
So the practices of Mindfulness is about Knowing (self awareness).....when does the mental affliction arise, when is the mind more focused, when is it dull, when is it agitated, when is it whole; and the clarity about how it becomes so!, what are causes, what brings about the change in the state of our minds!
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