Reclusland

The mind is not box into which we must place information to be retrieved later, nor is it a place where we must place facts and functions in order to learn how to do a certain thing, to achieve goal or accomplish a task.

These are all functions of the mind, tools which we can use.

The mind is something that stores and repeats patterns of existence.  When we do something or are exposed to something repeatedly, it becomes stored in our mind as a part of how we see the world.  In this sense our mind holds a microcosm of the world within it, as a guide for how to respond.  This is also a tool, which we can use to obtain satisfaction in the world.

The idea of satisfaction, the fulfilling of our desires, is a broader topic, one I am not ready to try to understand and explain at this point.

What is important now is that these patterns we learn are always approximations, they should come secondary to our interaction/involvement with the world.  If our mind is a boat in a river, they are the rudder.

What this means day-to-day is that we need to be watchful of these patterns of understanding, to make sure they are working properly.

There is a clarity, or a clearing, needed, of old thought patterns that are no longer productive.  These feel to us to be blocks in our life, things that stop us from achieving our goals.  But really, they are just mistaken patterns of thought and behavior in our minds.  To clear the blocks, we must examine our behavior patterns.

This sounds very obvious and trite now.  I think I am done for the moment..