Filters of the mind. Fears, desires, relationships, beliefs
Filters of the mind. Does one see a human being or an image ?
“What exists in the mind is constantly being filtered.
What are the filters of the mind ?
Fears, desires, relationships, beliefs, habits and conditioning.
They select what is perceived by our senses.
I have no real sensations, but I react to the substantiated images of my mind.
I can look at someone, see an American in him, and have a positive feeling; someone else, looking at the same person, may have an opposite feeling.
Is it a person or an image?
You can tell from other people’s reactions whether you are responding to the impulse of the here and now or to a preconceived image.
When you desire something, you pay attention to many things that others are not aware of.
A mother may sleep soundly in the midst of a tumult, but she awakens at the first sigh of her baby.
Why does she do this ?
Her senses are filtering out other sounds.
Something is happening within us.
It exists as a sensor that responds to what we experience.
This perception depends on the conditioning received in the past.
If someone thinks he is inferior in an area, he will constantly pick up signals that confirm his idea.
We are always validating ourselves in our beliefs.
If I believe that Americans have certain characteristics, I will perceive in them what confirms my belief.
So we live with the result of many selective processes, filters and subjectivities.
What really exists in our mind?
We add our mental constructions and evaluations to the images:
“This is good, this is bad, right, wrong, etc.”
In reality, there is neither good nor bad in human beings and nature.
There is only a mental evaluation imposed on this or that reality.
These evaluations can be: which team is good, which is the best, when is a victory good or bad ?
In reality there is only a game and the people who participate in it, a ball that is thrown, kicked, hit.
Ball and players move from one side of the playing field to the other.
To these actions, people add their own specific evaluations; they cheer more for a jersey or a concept than for the existing reality. They cheer more for their own conditioning and preferences than for the observed reality.
Is this not foolish ?
Men end up in this habitual confusion because they run after things like fools without knowing what they are.
They keep adding their own filters, judgments, and desires to reality.
They introduce good and evil into reality as if they were blowing up a balloon.
They claim that some things are desirable, some undesirable; some right, some wrong.
But things are as they are, whether we understand them or not.
