Brain is helping you in your day to day activity. You will need your brain to function for eating, sleeping, cleaning, working, without the brain, there is no human being.

Mind is hiding behind our brain ever since we are young. Mind is needed for a lot of things, for memory, for work, for money, for ambition, for goals, for objective. Without mind there is no society. Before we come to this, let’s talk about the mind first.

What is mind? The past and future is the mind. The present, now, is never part of the mind. Some understanding of the meditation teaches about present, why? Because present is existence, if you have stopped for a while and taste the present, you will experience the harmony of the present.

The past is over while the future is not yet coming but the mind always having these two non-exist situation. This is the reason of why the mind is in a chaos because once you are identified with the mind you are living in memories, imaginations, desires and hope but never in now.

A lot of excuses had been created to let the mind to slip into the brain since you are young. School teaches you a lot of things but never a single thing about how to live life in this minute. It is always about mind, about ambition and worst still when parents told the child that going to school study hard and get a good job when you are older. Then get married, have a family and the whole cycle will starts again and again and again.

Once you are living in this kind of life you will feel something is missing. Here is a story:

Bodhidharma is the son of a king. When he decided to leave the kingdom to search the meaning of life, he father, the king stops him. Bodhidharma replies “Unless you can stop my death, else do not stop me from searching the real meaning.” It is told that the father did not stop him and let Bodhidharma has his way.

Somehow, death is associated with searching of meaning of life. It is undeniable. When human starts growing after achieving almost everything, go to school,  go to work, get married, have children, after the children is grown up, having grandchildren, then they start to search for the meaning of life. Before this, almost ninety  percent of the population is living in delusions, in the mind stage.

It is very rare to encounter human being who has the wisdom and intelligence to start searching for life meaning in an early age.

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