Noted thinker J Krishnamurti says that limited and petty mind cannot do a thing about its conditioning though it can explore, analyse and achieve certain results, but it is always limited.
"Whatever its (mind's) projections, hopes or fulfilments, they are always the result of its background and therefore limited...A mind that is merely caught in desires, in achieving a result, in knowing, in experiencing can never be a still mind. When a limited mind meditates, when it thinks of God, its God and its meditation are still petty. However much a mediocre mind may be expanded, however much it knows, it is still mediocre, small, petty, and therefore its problems will always remain petty, unsolvable." Thus, all the techniques, methods, paths and ways suppression and masking of limited and petty mind which would never be able to find out what is true.
He points out, "Reality comes into being only when there is a total cessation of all conditioning, that is, when the mind is free and therefore still." Therefore, it is important for humans to 'experience directly that mind is small, limited' [1]
Thus, as I see, both the de-conditioning and reconditioning attempted by same limited mind through various techniques and methods turn out to be the ritualistic hoodwinking by it. To me, unless we have a unconditioned mind - the mind that has realized its pettiness and meanness - frees the self to manifest pure awareness state of being - the unphysical self, there is no freedom. A still mind - the mind free from desire, thoughts, techniques and systems - is the unconditioned mind.
[1] For more read at
https://kfoundation.org/can-the-mind-be-free-of-conditioning/
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