Can a mind anlyze itself?

what is mind, no matter, whats matter : never mind!

Published on July 27, 2004 By web_poet In Philosophy

Last night, I could not sleep. So, I opened "The Alchemist" by Paul Coelho. It's a great book, about a sheperd's search for the ultimate treasure and fulfillment in life and search for his "soul".

He goes to many lands, meets many beautiful girls on the way, earns money and then loses, yet he never gets fulfillment.

After searching all over the world, he ,at last, realizes that what he was searching was always there inside him and where he started-he didn't have to travel the world to seek it. But,alas,he realized that only after peregrinating the nooks and corners of the world. He found his "soul" at length.

The point is: can a soul search for itself, can a mind analyze itself? Is it not a dagger cutting itself? In other words, can one attain one's one nirvana by analyzing his own mind. Is it possible. Or how so one achieve a sort of no-mind state when one gets linked to one's intimate 'self', one's core 'soul'. Is it possible?

Or do we also need to take a sisyphean odyssey through the ends of the world to find one's soul and to reach the place from where one started!

"sitting quietly,
doing nothing,
the grass grows by itself!".

PS. Is there some elusive thing called 'the subconscious mind' and how to tap its energies?

Comments

Shulamite

on Jul 27, 2004

Very interesting. I find it truly interesting that a person, not believing in a higher power, God for instance, can use his or her own mind alone to come to a single conclusion about the universe. The reason is as you state above: if we truly hail from a billionth of a chance due to chemical reactions, what makes us trust our own thoughts and conclusions? They're simply chemical reactions themselves. Without an outside force to interact, our thoughts and conclusions are as insignificant as we are and just as untrustworthy. However, an outside force, a higher power, God, changes the whole conversation, doesn't it?

AndyBaker

on Jul 28, 2004

He goes to many lands, meets many beautiful girls on the way, earns money and then loses, yet he never gets fulfillment

I think that if it weren't for our worldly adventures, we wouldn't be able to attain soul-realisation to its fullest and most profound extent. Soul-realisation arrives after experiencing all the dramas, joys, tears, fears and love of this world. There's a reason why the world is the way it is, I'm sure. God is all-wise and all-powerful, and even though we often (understandably) assume that this world imperfect and flawed, we can trust that it's purpose is perfect and the Divine Plan is flawless indeed. It provides rich fodder for the soul, and we should not doubt the infinite wisdom of God.

Soul-realisation and enlightenment is simply a stage of one's growth - just as a flower blooming it's petals is a stage of growth. All aspects of growth inbetween, including every life-experience that we face - regardless of how dark - and every bad feeling that we feel - regardless of how intense - are equally as significant and necessary as the final stages of soul-realisation.

For most of us, a greater degree of awareness and enlightenment will occur the moment we pass through the veil of death and arrive in Heaven. Depending on our level of growth, and the number of lives we've already lived, we may sense a feeling of 'unfinished business', and feel impelled to come back to a physical plane such as earth, in order to carry on our adventures and progress our souls, (which advance quicker in harsh realms such as earth), until we reach a stage of unfoldment when we can say, "Now I Am Ready. Now I Am Complete. Jesus, now I can experience your eternal glory, first-hand, from within. Jesus, I love you, and my heart bursts open for you." Then life eternal in Paradise can be lived in all its fullness. Then the Heavens will rejoice.

(I'm psychic by the way. But you don't have to believe that, of course)

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