Self Mastery – Part One
18/06/2012 16:20
Superficial Mind
Superficial mind is a program working within the hardware of the brain. This program is an operating system that has an architecture that includes the sub programs of ego, logic and reason. Superficial mind also includes what is referred to as the sub-conscious which runs the body’s intrinsic functionality.
Be certain to understand that no thought is ever created within superficial mind. A program is but a program after all, regardless of its intricacies or capacity for upgrades. Thus on our path to self mastery we can bypass any system, modality, technique or practice that remains focused on or within the realm of the superficial mind.
Now, if the superficial mind is the programming running within the hardware of the brain then where did that programming originate and how was it loaded in the first place? More on this later.
The Reality of the World
We humans think of ourselves as walking and talking bodies continuous in our thought and motion. We live in this world that is, without doubt, defined by our senses. We sense the reality of the world through the five senses of sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. Yes some would say we have a sixth sense of intuition so we’ll include that sixth sense in this essay.
It is a fact that we sense this world we call reality, of that there is no doubt. But what is “sense”?
To “sense” means to interpret. To interpret necessitates assumption.
To expound on this idea let’s look at the sense of sight and what we see. First off, you can’t see anything without light. Everything you have ever seen has been a due to light bouncing off an object which then follows a path to the receptacle of you eye, which then transmutates into an electrical impulse that travels along the optic nerve which then is translated by a specific part of the brain using a specific program. Thus you have never seen anything first hand. What you have done is re-imaged information. The hardware software configuration has interpreted information and that is why we use the term “sense” of sight. The same system functionality is used for the rest of the senses, including intuition. The term “common sense” is rooted in the mass conceptualization that humans refer to as reality. To put it bluntly, we play in a world of interpretations.
The seekers path inevitably leads to this finding. The question then becomes how to use this knowledge to further our quest for self mastery.
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