If the brain suddenly realizes its own limitations – can it then change?

 

A Beech Shaded Hollow, Cranborne Chase, By Howard Phipps

Our brain is not merely a certain brain, but the brain that has evolved through millenniums.

The physical and the non-physical are altogether a whole

Is there a difference between the brain and the mind?

The physical brain which is a result of the past, which is a product of evolution, of many thousand yesterdays, with all its memories, knowledge and experiences - this brain is a part of the total mind – the mind, which contains a conscious and an unconscious plane.

The physical and the non-physical are altogether a whole.

It is through thinking, evaluation, that you divide it in the conscious and the subconscious, the brain and the non-brain.

As a Life Artist you must observe the entire thing as a whole, instead of fragmented.

The brain can´t formulate or understand that which is the total, the whole, the complete

The brain is the centre for all the senses; the more the senses are awake and sensitive, the sharper is the brain.

The brain is a storehouse of experience, knowledge and tradition.

Therefore, it is historical limited, conditional.

Its activities are planned, thought out, but it functions in historical limitation, in time and space.

Therefore, it can´t formulate or understand that which is the total, the whole, the complete.

The wholeness can´t be assembled, and produced

The nature of the mind is the emptiness in which the things of the mind can exist, but the things are not the mind.

Because of this emptiness time and space begin to exist.

The brain, and the brain´s things, can cover an entire field of life; it is occupied by multifold problems. But the brain can´t catch the nature of the mind, because it only functions in division; logical analyzing in the one as different from the other, emotional evaluating in sympathy and antipathy, ethical in good and evil, religious in holy and profane, sexually in gender, the reality in the observer and the observed.

None of these parts can produce the wholeness. And yet the brain is occupied by putting the many contradictory parts together in order to produce the wholeness. Just like the thoughts the brain functions philosophical.

But the wholeness can´t be assembled, and produced. The sacred circle would in that case be broken.

There happens an unnatural movement when the brain limits itself concerning nationality

There happens an unnatural movement when the brain limits itself concerning nationality.

Is it not the brain´s function to seek safety? Of course, it is the brain´s function to seek safety. This is something natural.

But there happens an unnatural movement when the brain limits itself concerning nationality; when it says: ”This is mine, that is yours”.

And then it is not at all safe, even though the movement is due to a quest for safety.

When the mind is in constant activity it sucks the energy and life away from the present

Energy and matter have their origin in life itself.

Therefore mind also has it´s origin in the stream and movement of life.

But when the mind is in constant activity it sucks the energy and life away from the present, and transforms past and future into reality, and reality into emptiness.

The mind makes itself independent as an ego, which is standing outside the stream of life, which is in conflict with the facts.

And this affects the brain cells, which are weared out and reduced in this eternal inner talk.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory

We are ceasing being creative, when we imitate, when we as natural beings only reacts on the bases of memories.

Answers from the memory are usually called thinking.

But such thinking is only reactions from those preconceived conceptions, which are memory.

It is only a reaction in the brain and not real thinking.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory.

In this awake and passionate emptiness there is creation.

And when you are in this condition all stimuli and demands of life vanish.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory

We are ceasing being creative, when we imitate, when we as natural beings only reacts on the bases of memories.

Answers from the memory are usually called thinking.

But such thinking is only reactions from those preconceived conceptions, which are memory.

It is only a reaction in the brain and not real thinking.

There is only real thinking, when there isn´t any reaction from the memory.

In this awake and passionate emptiness there is creation.

And when you are in this condition all stimuli and demands of life vanish.

The brain has evolved from the primitive state, and carries in itself the instinct of the animal

It is obvious that we still have a behaviour, which arises from the instinct of the animal.

This appears especially in situations of crises, such as for instance war, where all civilization and moral suddenly momentarily disappear.

The brain has evolved from the primitive state, and carries in itself the instinct of the animal. Consequently there is something innate.

In addition to this you can say, that regardless how sophisticated, intelligent, technical, the brain is, it can only function within the frames of time and space.

The brain has also got accustomed to the evolution´s idea about becoming something (the will to power).

But you could ask the question: What happens if it suddenly realizes the nature of the will to power?

Without the emptiness in the nature of the mind, there can´t be content

The mind, in which is the brain, the thoughts, the feelings, and any subtle emotion or fantasy, is, according to the Buddhists, an extraordinary thing.

All its content doesn´t create the mind, and yet without them the mind is not.

The mind is more than what it contains.

Without the mind the contents would not be; without the emptiness in the nature of the mind, there can´t be content, just like that it is the emptiness in a pot, which makes possible, that it can contain water.

The contents exist because of the emptiness.

The intellect - the thoughts, the feelings, all consciousness - have their existence in the total emptiness of the mind.

A tree is not the word, nor a leaf, branches or roots; the wholeness of them is the tree and yet the tree is none of these things.

If insight can change the brain, then insight must be beyond the brain

Some people say, that there nothing is beyond the brain. The materialists.

But if insight can change the brain, then this is implying, that insight somehow is beyond the brain.

This doesn´t have to be something mystical.

If an alcoholic is having the insight, that he must stop his abuse, and actually is stopping, then this insight is affecting his brain cells. And this insight must therefore be something different than the brain.

Please, go deep into this question.

The present intensity is altogether unrelated to any desire, wish or experience as memory

The present intensity, which the Buddhists speak about, is altogether unrelated to any desire, wish or experience as memory.

It is something, which flushes through the brain.

The brain is here only an instrument, and it is the mind, or the nature of the mind, which is this timeless expansion, this exploding intensity of creation, where everything is middle, fullness and is lying in light.

This light radiates both from the brain, and beyond the brain.

This seeing and feeling are not only in the brain, but also beyond the brain.

The total perception of life is within the mind, not within the brain

The brain can be aware, aware about itself as a part of the whole movement of the mind.

But love, for instance, has only importance in the total perception of life, which is in the mind´s area, and not in the brain´s area.

So the brain can´t see the wholeness of life; the brain is a part, regardless how educated it might be. It is not the wholeness.

Only the mind can see the wholeness, and within the area of the mind is the brain.

But the brain can´t contain the mind regardless what it does.

If it doesn´t do anything there can come an insight in the wholeness, and this insight can change the brain, but insight itself is beyond the brain.