Mind following mind 2

Non-violence on mind level, how does it work?

Well, violence is really for the body level. The body is valuable and should be respected and protected. So if someone threatens the body, it is a bad deed and a serious one. It has been quite popular during history. 

The equivalent of violence on mind level is forecefulness. It is no good.

The ideal medium of mind is clear without resistance. It is like a good monitor. Anything can be shown on it, and it is of no use using extra force.

Extra force is causing distortion, which makes the image unclear.

Of course, mind is not always in this ideal, clear and neutral state. Often we have mind habits, prejudices and even physical tracks in the brain which makes us prefer some ideas before others.

But if we use extra force in order to break these patterns, we cause resistance. Mind is not made of a passive medium. It is sensitive and reactive. 

For example, if we have a serious problem and spend a sleepless night trying to solve it with all our might, we are likely to fail. Or we might be lucky and fall asleep and find the problem solved by itself when we wake up. Bur normally, our forcefulness makes the problem worse.

We know that the ideal mood for learning is peaceful, nondistracted awareness. So this is what we should seek, even when we are the utmost distracted and disturbed, in the midst of catastrophe and the like.

If we have strong prejudices or biased interests in some issue, mind makes itself hostile to argument. If we use forcefulness in this situation, the problem is likely to get worse.

The solution is instead in non-violence or peaceful, compassionate healing of the sore parts of mind.