UNDIVIDED ATTENTION<\/h1>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The senses receive information which is monitored by the mind. \u00a0 The mind is not as most people presume it to be, however. \u00a0 We cannot prove the mind to be an entity unto itself, for when we look for it, it eludes our grasp. \u00a0 All that is possible to say about the mind is that it is the nearly incessant flow of thoughts and thinking. \u00a0The thoughts and the thinking can be found; they can be perceived, recognized, and inspected, but a mind is never seen. \u00a0 Sometimes the brain has been thought to be the mind, but recently science has shown that the brain is more like a switching-board, a circuitry panel that directs sensory impulses throughout the physical nervous system. The mind seems to be connected and interrelated with this circuitry, but not dependent upon it. \u00a0 Science has a lot of work left to do before the mind and thinking will be even minutely understood. \u00a0 A mind divided by the dichotomies of discriminative error becomes the creator of illusionary dreamscapes built from sensory information and tainted by faulty observation, lack of reason, and aberrated discernment. \u00a0 Add to this an unbridled and rampant imagination and then come the mental sets based on false views and blind opinions. \u00a0This is the ground and support for the further structuring of fictitious identity complexes, the ego-notion, and then the dualistic dance spins a great web of confusion. \u00a0People get absorbed in a hypnoidal life story and living becomes focused on a materiality and a hedonistic outlook dominated by a divided mental state. \u00a0 The process will continue to proceed until some catalyst, usually the experience of suffering, gets a person\u2019s undivided<\/em> attention. \u00a0 Then there is potential for enquiry and a possibility for conscious intelligence to step out of the dualistic dance.<\/h2>\n

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