Problem solving 2

These days we follow in the media the swine flu virus spreading over the planet. It is fantastic that we have the technical means to identify and follow the virus. It can not be seen with the eye, and if you saw it it would probably look much the same as all the other viruses.
The virus causes some problems, obviously. People get the flu and stay at home and rest for a few days. Some people even die. So it is a nuisance.
However, if we would compare this nuisance, to the constant nuisance and suffering made by human beings, the swine flue problems are very small.
So if we were rational, we would follow the spread of human evil over the globe with the same interest as we follow the swine flu virus. But we do no. One reason is that we can not see human evil.
But human evil has a physical reality, as it rests as bagchags in the minds of people. Bagchags are active memories and thus potential thoughts.
If we have difficult experiences - from torture, threat of death and destruction and the like - bagchags are formed. If they are not attended to they will mature into evil actions later. These evil actions - torture, threat of death and the like - will create new bagchags in new generations.
These bagchags can not be seen and measured by science, but they are all important. A few decades ago, science could not see and measure virus, but they were all important nevertheless.

Well being

Mind knowledge for well being, just one example:

If we have a problem, we think about it, and get a lot of feelings about it. It is quite natural. We can even get obsessed with it and think about it day and night. Sleepless nights are difficult.
The problem might be impossible to solve. It might be about the actions of people we can not reach or factors we can not influence. The more we seek a solution, the more obvious it is there is none.
In the most serious cases, this might lead to suicide or some other extreme action.
But if we know mind, we know mind is vast. It is wide as cosmos. And the problem - any problem - is just a small dot in this immense cosmos. The problem is the interlocking of a few ideas. They can be stuck. The problem is a reality.
But compared to the totality of mind the problems is a small thing.
However, if we thrust our thoughts and feelings against the problem, the thoughts and feelings will make the problem more solid.
We do not have to do so. Mind is vast. We can go around the problem. We can think about other things. Maybe it does not concern us after all. Maybe there are distant factors that can help.
So the problem can be solved if we do not think too much about it.
But our thoughts are important. If we will others well and seek solutions and processes that will be good for others, the problem might get solved also.

Giving

Spontaneously we often feel we can give criticism and sometimes even interfere with violence without being affected ourselves.
This is the calculation behind criminal activity and many conflicts including war.
But this calculation is wrong. We get what we give. If we give violence, we will get violence.
There might be time lap between the giving an the getting. But the relation is strict.
If this was generally known, the idea of war as some sort of conflict solver would be less popular than it is.