Layers of mind..

 Sharing an understanding from the first chapter of the Yoga sutras:

The world is what we create in our minds! It is the projection of understandings of the external world.

Consider there are three parts to our being: 

The stimulus: It can be visual, auditory, sensory etc

The organ : That perceives the stimulus

The mind: That makes sense of the stimulus

A discerning mind can only understand the mind deciphers the world based on its past conditioning.

A particle of sand is enameled by an Oyster to create its own little pearl, that is what we do as human beings; distort the reality with the enamel of our biases and conditioning.    

Truth is to look at the stimulus as it is: unbiased.

How is it possible to discern?

Knowledge, understanding, rationalisation, questioning, contempt, introspection...

Look at your patterns, the layers which we naturally create in our minds...

Is this the better way of living or creating our own enamel is a better way? That needs to be decided based on what gives you and people around you peace.. 


    

#yogasutras #yoga #peace

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