An innocent mind vs a Burdened mind
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An innocent mind vs a Burdened mind
It seems innocence is freedom from the burden of experience. A freedom from the accumulated residual memories of pleasures and sorrows. It is the memory of the experience that corrupts, not the experiencing itself. Therefore knowledge, which is the burden of the past, corrupts.
From this accumulation of knowledge there is continuous effort to become. One is this today but would like to be that tomorrow. Obviously this psychological becoming is also another corrupting factor.
An innocent mind, a fresh mind, is a mind which is not cluttered up with the known. An innocent mind is a mind which functions in the unknown, and dying to the known is the door to the unknown. The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure that which is beyond time. When we try to measure something which is not measurable….it seems we get caught up in knowledge and beliefs. And then there is a need to defend those beliefs resulting in the character defects listed in para 1.
An innocent mind isn't a mind that lacks experiences/information (as in a child), but a mind that doesn't carry over the marks of those experiences (as in child-like).
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Re: An innocent mind vs a Burdened mind
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17405&start=75 , but may continue penning some of his thoughts which should only be considered as a continuity of OP and not rebuttals.
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Re: An innocent mind vs a Burdened mind
The lover of wisdom is then faced with a radical question, is it possible to have a mind that does not carry over the psychological marks of yesterdays (whether it was the day before, or the past of 10000 years), which is nothing but a bundle and the burden of the known. Can it meet the new without the burden of the old.
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Re: An innocent mind vs a Burdened mind
Because humans evolved for survival not for wisdom, and in prehistoric times it was largely unnecessary to keep learning new things after the first 10-20 years of age?
Will you present a theory where we need to be fully unaffected by the known, in order to be able to dive into the unknown and receive some kind of divine wisdom?
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Re: An innocent mind vs a Burdened mind
I suppose various folks will use the word wisdom differently, and you are free to use whatever definition you want, but a very common meaning specifically stems from experience, that is what has been learned over much time.Skyblack wrote: ↑June 23rd, 2021, 6:20 pm Continuing from OP:
The lover of wisdom is then faced with a radical question, is it possible to have a mind that does not carry over the psychological marks of yesterdays (whether it was the day before, or the past of 10000 years), which is nothing but a bundle and the burden of the known. Can it meet the new without the burden of the old.
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Re: An innocent mind vs a Burdened mind
When the lover of wisdom asks the question, "is it possible to have a mind that does not carry over the psychological marks of yesterdays (whether it was the day before, or the past of 10000 years), which is nothing but a bundle and the burden of the known. Can it meet the new without the burden of the old",
he or she is faced with another question, can the mind die everyday so that it's free, fresh, sensitive, innocent, tender, gentle? Can it die to the flatteries, to the images one has built (about oneself, of others, and of society), to the hurts, to the reactions, to the hostility, to the bitterness, to the violence, to the acrimony? Unless there is death of all that how can there be renewal? How can there be the silence in which creation happens? Not the contrived silence induced when there is an absence of noise. That's a relatively small affair. But the silence that's even beyond an absence of noise.
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