Unlearning 2

The brain has an ability to learn and to adapt to demands. That is good but also a difficulty. Once the brain has created a routine, it is so much easier to follow the routine than to do something new. As the external world is in constant change, we would need a new kind of brain which is more flexible and less emotionally stuck in its old routines and patterns.
You could say that the external world should change first. The brain is just a mirror of external situations, and as long as there is oppression, rudeness and hostility in the world it is good to have brains which react with disgust and even pain.
And certainly, we should change the external world in order to eliminate oppression and discrimination. One problem is that the negative ideas are born anew with every new generation. So the problem can not be solved once and for all. It has to be solved for every new individual that is born. And there is quite a number of those.
But to eliminate oppression is also a brain problem. It is not an external, political or psychological problem. The difference between the dictator and the democratic leader is in the brain.
Of course, the brain is part of an external reality. The internal reality is mind. The brain is a marvellous instrument in the hands of the mind (does the mind have hands!?) but a disastrous instrument when used for creating disaster.

Non deludedness 2

Mind can be used in different ways. The last one hundred years or so, material issues have been prominent. A lot of great achievements have been made. Material problems have also been invented, as a lot of wars. They were destructive!
But mind is more than a mirror of a material reality. Mind is closer to reality than matter. Matter is of course part of reality, an important but limited reality. We see the proportions in space: small suns and planets move around in an enormous space. Mind is big as space, not small as planets.
Saying that mind is closer to reality means that a certain piece of matter can be seen in different ways by mind. Reality can be understood or interpreted in different ways by mind. Reality is not in a piece of matter, but in the understanding of that piece of matter, and in understanding everything else out there in cosmos and in here in the origin of life.
For mind the brain is the central organ in the body. Brain is fantastic, but it has an initial resistance to new ideas. We can transcend that resistance by learning and contemplation.
If we want to free mind from its occupation with material factors, we have to train the brain.