The Mind

The mind does not understand the difference between conceptual processing and experience-based understanding. The mind operates constantly with three underlying programs:

1 I know (and you don't)

2 I am right (and you are wrong)

3 I am afraid of what I do not know

These three programs are constantly preventing deep understanding and experience from happening.

Being the ultimate highjacker, the mind is quick to embrace a concept it likes and make it its own.

The question DO I REALLY UNDERSTAND does generally not arise; this would require new modes of mind training and a rewiring of the processing circuity.

The inability to distuinguish between concept and experience, transferred into the domain of the spiritual quest, is responsible for stagnation and lack of substantial experience-based progress.

This illusion- perpetuating program is difficult to pierce.