The Basics of the Mind and Material

Harmony (equality) comes from the mind (nothingness).

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Conflict (superiority or inferiority) rises from the worldly desires for the material (body).

Stand aloof from all scholarly attainments, knowledge.

◎ It is the most important thing to establish the basic ways of thinking to foster a sturdy mind and sound growth of the material.

The pains in the mind of a person, worries, sadness, and the distress from such sufferings all come from one’s own mind. The process of changing troublesome conditions into controlled situations through one’s self-reliance while dealing with them with the basics is most important of all.

The inevitable human mind of feeling sadness, distress, pain from such conditions and sufferings make me think about the numerous people in the world who live their own lives while passing the endlessly many days with patience; their emotions and sentiments are most important to their own self-reliance, which then becomes the biggest food for their minds.

Indeed, the creed in people’s minds is a window for learning the practice of the mind and it is the most important of basics.

It all starts from here. We become to perceive the mind of a person, a path for man.

The great premise is to train the ability to completely, rightly, and fundamentally understand the mind and material and separate them from each other.

Only practicing by oneself toward tomorrow and the future, before others do the same, is the way to prove the character of one’s self-reliance.