In scriptures of many eastern cultures, mind has been mataphorised as horse-mind, monkey-mind and snake-mind which stands for undeveloped, untrained and uneducated worldly mind that is a mundane and rudimentary mind.
However, the worldly life and most social systems created by the society pamper the mundane mind and shape it through reward and punishment or conditioning.
But, yet another aspect - beyond conditioning the mind is to fit it into the existing system and remain sinfully slave to it – suggests the ways and techniques of controlling and subduing mind (meditation, contemplation, self-reflection, yoga, etc.) to take you to another world.
However, these mind-metaphors are needed to be understood to develop a philosophy of life which strikes a balance between the worldly life and the higher order sublimated thoughtful life while living in this world. It has been said that we are what our mind or thoughts are since as humans, we are thinking-feeling beings which separates us from animals.
There is a need to analyse these metaphors through comparison and contrast as a thinking tools to find similarities and dissimilarities. Besides this, the metaphor is needed to be subjected to implied, visual and extended or philosophical thinking orders to get the deeper meaning beyond the mundane mind or non-thinking or belief-thinking mind.
The following sketch note in Hindi with a few visuals has been give to deepen our understanding about mind and life. Those who do not know Hindi must do the visual analysis of the sketch note.
SKETCH NOTE
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