Mind

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Eupsychia Institute
PO Box 151960
Austin, TX 78715-1960

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The mind is an incredible mechanism. It is the filter that sits between our conscious and unconscious lives, defining what is acceptable and real. Once the mind decides what is legitimate, it creates a mental boundary. This boundary then circumscribes our universe and becomes our limitation. We unconsciously say, "This is all the 'reality' I can handle.

Webster's Third New English Dictionary provides a perfect opening definition: "The mind is that which reasons; the doer of intellectual work. It organizes groups of events, which it perceives, classifies, transforms and coordinates...It is a biological organism but is not organic in nature. It has to be experienced as emotions, imagination or will. It can act as an organizing whole or split into dissociative parts."

What the dictionary doesn't say is that the mind is a magician. It serves both as the creator and the slayer of truth. According to the Buddha, the mind is a conjurer of both the unreal and the real; it can create sickness, and it can create cures. It can make things seem ugly, or call them beautiful. It latches onto ideas and makes them your world: it decides what your life is. If the mind were always clear and in touch with absolute Truth, it would be an impeccable spiritual guide.

[excerpt from AWAKENING IN TIME, pg. 114-115]

Be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable and perfect will of God.

-Romans 12:2

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