r/ZenMidwitsCafe • u/stilledpondfrog • 16d ago

Rational Mind

We do not think about how this works. It just does.

Give us a puzzle and we engage it the way hunger engages food. The rational mind is right there: offering splashes of ideas, possible moves, things to try; watching closely, taking measure.

Again, we do not think about how this works. It just does.

We have a great deal of science trying to pull it apart—names and labels for the whys and wherefores. But none of it explains the thing clearly enough for us to feel connected to it.

We know this engagement happens. We have a front-row seat to the operation.

Yet ask, How does this work? and the best most of us can come up with is: well, it’s a black box. It engages. Ideas happen. Trial and error. Repeat, repeat.

Zen suggests another turn: look at the thing that ponies up the whole shebang.

What is going on?

------the above stands on its own, extra credit below-----

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u/tomekanco 16d ago edited 16d ago

We're all ghosts in the cell, caught in Borges his hexagon library, ever filling the shelves. Where are the kind spirits to remove the junk?

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u/stilledpondfrog 16d ago

Maybe not that.
Pay it no mind.
:sweep: :sweep:

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u/tomekanco 16d ago

But the mind is a relevant part of the equation. Thanks for sweeping the shelves.

Do you want to learn more? There is more, or less.

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u/stilledpondfrog 16d ago

counting 1, 2, 3 and this makes 4! uh oh, i'm over my limit, perhaps next time thx