Tag: mind

• Old Thinking / New Thinking

  Old mind thinks: How do we stop these bad things from happening? New mind thinks: How do we make things the way we want them to be? Old mind thinks: If it didn’t work last year, let’s do MORE of it this year. New mind thinks: If it didn’t work last year, let’s do something…

  David L. Smith

  March 6, 2023

  Belief, consciousness, evolution, Perception, society, Transformation, Values

  abuse, bad, behavior, breakdown, constrain, control, creativity, crime, desire, discipline, fix, force, future, innovation, killing, law, limit, mind, more, new, problem, repair, solution, writing

• The Universe in a Chair

  When we look at a chair, we see the wood, but we fail to observe the tree, the forest, the carpenter or our own mind. When we meditate on it, we can see the entire universe in all its interwoven and interdependent relations in the chair. The presence of the wood reveals the presence of…

  David L. Smith

  February 3, 2023

  consciousness, Cosmos, evolution, Nature, Perception

  apple, blossom, forest, meditation, mind, object, presence, present, relation, separate, sun, tree, wood

• Consciousness is Fundamental

  All matter originates and exists by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.  I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything…

  David L. Smith

  December 16, 2022

  consciousness, Science

  force, intelligence, matrix, Matter, mind