mind

=Mind=

toc This article defines a word and clarifies its application and usefulness in scale studies.

=Overview= A complete definition of this term is out of scope of the current work. However, disambiguating mind and brain is an important concept.

Mind is distinguished from brain. Mind is the weightless entity, emergent from the collective activity of the human organism metabolizing the world, and is the center or origin of our being, of which the ego is a minor homeostatic component.

The typical, untrained mind is restless, jumping like a monkey from thought to thought and enacting conventional, habitual responses to simultation. We are living in a world of sense impressions. Every object however small is liable to create a thought, the minutest sound, the feeblest smell, the slightest taste, the least touch, or the former recollections of any one of these is sufficient to give rise to a thought. Ceasing to be and coming into existence, such is the ever revolving nature of the mind. It is compared to a monkey that is always busy, leaving one branch, catching hold of another, leaving that and getting hold of another. – The Arya Dharma Of Sakya Muni, Gautama Buddha. Or The Ethics Of Self Discipline. By The Venerable The Anagarika Dharmapala