Mind is your Business

“The intellect is like a scalpel which is constantly cutting through everything. Your ability to discriminate between one thing and the other is purely because of your intellect.”

—Sadhguru

The mind seems to be a rather dynamic entity - its mysterious workings have cast a spell on scientists, spiritual seekers, and even poets and novelists. Mark Twain once jested, “I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up”. Though we freely use such terms as “never mind” and “mind you,” most of us still have a rather ambiguous idea of what the mind really is. Poets, psychiatrists and philosophers have each given their own take on the subject (often contradicting one another), and of course, the cliché “Mind, Body and Spirit” finds mention in bookstores and spiritual expos all around the world.

However, for most people, the question is less about what the mind is, and more about what type of influence it has on our daily experience of life. Most of us experience the mind as a continuous and seemingly unstoppable train of thoughts running through our heads. Behind this incessant flow lies a sophisticated web of likes, dislikes, attitudes, habits, inhibitions, morals... and so on and so forth, ad infinitum. This often unconscious patchwork determines how we interact and relate to the world around us, giving shape to our joys, griefs, pleasures and fears.

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