New Mind And Old Brain

When we learn something ‘new’, it may take a while for our old brain to catch up, if ever. 😀 That is why we have inner conflicts.

Through experience, the brain acquires pathway/memories/feelings, and the mind saves and creates a library of words and images. These become heavily ingrained as habits, and can limit further understanding. It’s just one of those problems in sentient life.

When seeking knowledge about our reality, we may find it difficult to understand a new approach, because we are stuck in our old established way of thinking, and that unfortunately causes us suffering.

Practice makes perfect, and practice needs tenacity, and tenacity needs a reason. A reason needs dissatisfaction with established ways. The result is direct realisation, and not merely something learnt in order to maintain our pathways, and our same old predictable responses.

The key is that we must want to change
because we see the need to change.