' The old mind '...

For the "old mind" to be forsaken and the "new mind" installed, the seeker has had to experience a kind of revulsion with yet another turn on the wheel of old age, sickness and death.

Once it is finally understood that the belief (old mind) in things having an independent nature is the cause of suffering and disappointment, the understanding comes creeping in that "attachment" is about an existence that cannot be the way it appears.

Now that the root cause of suffering is grasped (new mind), and happiness is the much preferred condition (even bugs do not want to suffer), the path opens, and transformation begins.

The "misknowing" is the belief in a self and world that have independent, self-standing status.

So then, accumulating more concepts premised on fundamental error cannot get to the taproot of human misery.



- Paul Brunton