Shaded concepts 2

Mind organizes our knowledge as concept and content. Concept might be "movies" and content is everything we know about movies. A more specific concept might be "Matrix" and the content is all we know about this particular movie. Another concept might be "father" and the content is everything we know about father. There are millions of concepts.
The organisation of knowledge as concept - content is all right. Clear concept and clear content is very good.
But concepts can be shaded or unclear. Then there might be problems.
Prejudice is a big group of shaded concepts. There is prejudice against all citizens, be they young or old, women or men, rich or poor, white or black, Muslims or Jews.
So we know the phenomenon. We all have experienced the problem of trying to fight a shaded concept about ourself by referring to content. It is almost impossible.
In a mind analysis, however, the problem is not a big one. In this analysis we do not consider every concept as a fixed truth, but as a matter open to analysis and debate.
In such an analysis we will find that positive concepts are more true and usable than negative concepts. So "nice person" is much more true than "bad".

Good 2

Dissolution of evil in mind is different from fighting evil in the material reality.
The basic rule for mind is positive. It is doing good and getting good. It is a principle of knowledge and relaxation. The good is in the idea, not in the power of the execution.
On the material level, good ideas which are not executed powerfully have no impact.
On the mind level, excess of power is a problem. If you use a PC or Mac, you just break the keyboard if you use too much force.
The strategy for dissolving evil on mind level is just doing good. The presence of evil is a rich source for doing good.
There might be problems if the brain is drugged or manipulated in other ways, if there is secrecy, lies, irrational behaviour and the like, but eventually these aspects are drawn into the light and dissolved also.

Secrets 2

If we want to know the specifics in this universe, we have to know the specifics in every individual mind. And the content in the mind is under constant change. Evaluations can change from extremely positive to extremely negative some 60 times per second. It is a mess and a complex one.
This means that if we have some important message to communicate, we have to communicate it. We can not just hope that others will get it. There are billions and billions of messages out there.
Communication is more abundant than ever before, so the need for communication increases.
In old movies we see the secret agent in his hat and long raincoat under the streetlamp, watching out in the hope of finding the truth. These days we envisage the modern agents in front of their computer monitors following millions and millions of information pieces, in the hope of finding the truth.
Is it likely that the modern methods are more efficient than the old ones? The possibilities of making mistakes must be enormous.
We know - from Buddhist philosophy - that mind is the most important aspect of human beings, and mind works with communication, information and truth - that is no secret.

Trust not the unanalyzed 2

If a person can nothing else, he can always use violence and abuse. This is a basic human problem.
Why all these wars, why conflict, why violence, why abuse, why oppression, why criminality?
It is because of this: If we know not how to deal with a situation, we "feel it right" to use violence and abuse.
This is very sad, as the rational solution is so close. It is about analyze. It is about understanding principles.
Everything we d0 must be justified. If we can not analyze, we trust the unanalyzed, and thus feel justified in doing anything including the most horrible.
If we can do a legal analysis, we see there is no justification for private violence.
If we can do a mind analysis, we see the illusion of spontaneous observation, and we see the solution to the problem.