Mind - you reap what you sow!

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What is mind?

When looking at the mind and what has been called the right side and left side of the brain, or the conscious and subconscious mind... Reasoning mind and unable to reason mind. The mind is similar to that of a garden and a gardener packaged in one.

The Gardner is the conscious mind that can reason and make decisions. As any gardener, they can go to the local garden store and pick up certain seeds. The gardener consciously chooses different seeds that they want to plant into the garden. Being that the gardener, (conscious mind) can make choices of which seeds he or she plants is going to plant in the garden, the garden, (subconscious mind) simply bears the fruit of the seeds planted. The gardener has complete control over the garden in that the gardener is capable of thought, will, and perception and makes a deliberate choice of the seeds they are going to plant.

The garden is the subconscious mind. Like all gardens, it can only produce that of which has been planted. The garden does not have any ability to reason or choose. If a seed of corn is planted in the garden by the gardener, then corn will grow. It's not possible to plant a seed of corn and have it sprout up as a watermelon. Likewise, if the conscious mind, (gardener) chooses to plant seeds of fear, malice, and hostility... we know what we can expect? What goes in, is what comes out?PERIOD. The choice is only that of the gardener.

It's in the process of growth as a child; children rely much on the parents for those seeds. The parents of the child are the dominant, conscious mind of the child and make choices as to which seeds they are going to plant in that child's garden. Seeds of animosity and hate are going to produce just that. It's impossible to plant seeds of hate in a garden and expect love to grow. It's not natural. The process continues until the child is of the age where they can start taking on the responsibility of being the gardener. They start to choose and make conscious decisions as to what they put into their mind, based much on which is already growing. Their choices are limited by what's already been planted until they reach the level of complete control over their thoughts and become the gardener, (many never reach this stage). A child is born into this world with absolutely no original sin or knowing of such. The child's mind is like a fresh new garden and it's the responsibility of the parents and family members to cultivate and plant good seeds so they don't grow up to be a complete mess, (weed garden).

In raising two children myself, I didn't realize this rather simple analogy of mind. It's a garden? simple as that. It's a computer and what goes in is what comes out. I'm sure we've all heard the term, "crap goes in, crap is going to come out", or "If we keep doing the same things as we have done, then we are going to keep getting the same results."

As a webmaster and consultant, I know that I, as the conscious mind, sitting in front of the computer can make decisions as to the input via the keyboard. The computer, like the garden and the subconscious mind will accept the input without reason. It's the acceptance of the input that cannot be controlled. You can only control the input. The result is only going to be that of which has been entered.

So, when raising children and being the caretaker of your own garden, we must be fully aware of the seeds we are planting. This isn't understood today, it's never been understood. Parents aren't communicating the right things with their children because the parents don't understand this themselves. Many of the adults in the world today have gardens of mush with all kinds of weeds and seeds of hate and despair, not realizing that only they can change it. As the gardener, the conscious adult can start pulling weeds and start to re-cultivate fertile ground and begin to plant those new seeds. Sure, it's much more difficult now that you have a garden that has been taken over by weeds. The only way to change this, is you, as the gardener has to start taking care of your garden. The hard work of weed pulling and planting of new seed takes conscious effort and decision making along with persistence and hard work... Not to mention the pain that goes along with this change.

Change is inevitable. Parents, it's time to start making those changes within so we can change what is being planted in the minds of our children which will, in effect, change the way they communicate with their children. In order to do that we have to first look at our own garden and start the serious and painful task of pulling weeds and changing our conscious thought patterns and making better decisions. After looking in that mirror and seeing our reflection, and making the conscious decision to go through the pain of change, then and only then, will we be able to provide an environment for the people around us to change and grow and effect generations to come.

When we start getting rid of the weeds and planting new seeds is when we will start to see the rewards of our conscious effort and hard work in the harvest. We are the harvest. The funny thing is, that when we change (often very painful), our circumstances change. When we start to cultivate fertile ground, our circumstances and our environment changes, and we gain control over the effectiveness we have. We also see that our actions and reactions change based on the seeds we have planted in our minds and people will react to us differently than before. We'll be building that light. That light, not only attractive, will inspire others to change.

In essence? you reap what you sow.

To make any changes in this battered and beaten world of people who don't understand the science of man and mind, we must first start at home. Lock the door and listen to that still, inner voice crying from within that wants to produce a wonderful and abundant garden of joy, peace and love. Start making better decisions on what we watch and what kind of music we listen to, and who it is we are spending the most time with. Start paying close attention to the type of seeds we're planting in the innocent minds of our children, so they may be an abundant harvest of joy and peace. So our children can be a light in a world where darkness has overcome.

How can we build a city unless we first build the man?

What kind of seeds are you planting in the mind of your child? What is the effect of the seeds you have sown? When is mankind going to understand the essence of existence and discontinue the journey of death and despair that we are currently on?

Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts with you. Please feel free to respond.

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@Justin,

I have watched the seeds in my life grow, and the fruit they've produced. This seed to tree metaphor is a perfect example of what you do to the universe, and what it does to you.

I have no children myself, but I'm thankful for what my parents planted for me, and I do feel what has grown in my life. I can tell you disgusting fruit will grow, and it won't hesitate to grow abundantly, if you nurture the seed with your will. I don't the ratio of good and bad fruits in my life, but I know I've experienced both extremes. I remember how when I was first becoming involved in meditative practices, I kept an open mind and so many beautiful things grew in my life. In some later time, I began engaging in immoral, intoxicating, and delinquent acts. When as the fruit grew, it was all I had to feed upon, and that was the most disgusting spoon of food I ever had to swallow. So don't think the prettiest seed produces the best tasting fruit.

Your thoughts are like seeds, and your actions nurture them. But you see, you aren't going to get rid of them simply by picking them, that only aggrivates the growth, you have to block their source and by time they will wither away by themselves. Thoughts are also like a virus, they are contagious.

You can plant as many seeds at any moment in time, but you have to keep watering them if your expecting anything.

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@joseph tinc,

Joseph, I really appreciate the fact that such a young man as yourself has such a strong desire to understand this kind of stuff.

All of what you and I both said takes hard work and obedience. It also takes understanding the meaning and purpose of life... the essence of life. Change comes from within and has complete control over the external forces that so many people are slave to.

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@Justin,

nicely said Justin!! Really appreciate the seed thingy with sow and reap.
However I also think that much of what is "reaped" depends on the people's charactersitics etc. It is true that what we teach children etc then they will do, but much of it is nature, i.e. genetics etc. I didnt really believe this but soon came to realize that heredity plays a very significant role in this kind of stuff. We may blame parents for bad education of their kids etc - but a lot comes in that too. Or is the result of the child's way of thinking not the genetic but the nurture stuff? WHo knows... but charactersisitcs, way of thinking and personality also get passed down the genetic tree or "garden" Smile

. depends. But genetics really limit us a lot and open or close the possibilities we have.

And what can we or cant we be blamed for? That is the quesiton. What really is our fault and what is the fault of those who planted evil seeds in us? And even THEY may have planted evil ones because they were told to do so. Why? Due to those people before!! And so it goes on, until someone stands against this and changes it.
A person will grow what the surroundings are... so true!!:p

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@Justin,

madscientist - "However I also think that much of what is "reaped" depends on the people's characteristics etc. It is true that what we teach children etc then they will do, but much of it is nature, i.e. genetics etc."

Thank you for your comment. You are correct in your assertion that much of it comes from characteristic. However, when a child is born they know nothing. Every bit of information comes to the child externally. In children, influences outside of themselves plant the seeds and then those influences and the belief of that child will eventually cultivate them.

You see, there are two ways to look at everything...

We can blame our parents for our poor education or blame our circumstances. We can also chalk it up to heredity and accept that as truth. If we believe it's heredity (something we did not know when born), then that is something most of us accept as true and something we cannot change - Because we believe we can't change it. If this is accepted as true and we accept the assertion that we cannot change these things, we become a slave to our heredity and to our own thinking. In the end, if we believe it's something we cannot change due to heredity, that is a ceiling we place on ourselves. Whatever it is that we believe (the garden), is undoubtedly going to effect the harvest. Whether it's heredity or the changing wind.

The beauty of this is that there is another way to view it. We can overcome these obstacles we place on ourselves only if we believe we can. This is where the adult mind now has control of the garden. Weed it, turn it and plant new seeds. Heredity is no obstacle unless we believe it is.

How? Well, it starts with desire and then it takes action and meditative prayer. Everything we listen to, everything we read, all that goes on around us that we allow into our minds and heart, effects the harvest greatly. It can make or break the success of our own gardens. We control it, it doesn't control us. The genetic structure of man accounts for some of his physical being but we aren't physical, we're spiritual beings of energy living in a physical body.

Those genetics were passed to us through people in our lives that were fully aware of our ancestors and our parents tend to teach us what there parents taught them. At child-birth, our gardener (parents or other), knew of these genetics, we did not. They may have told us about our heritage or discussed it amongst themselves and we overheard it. It came to us from an external source as a seed in our mind and once we believe it, then it can be nothing else other than what we believe it to be. Therefore, it's important that we work on our garden and pay the price of that hard work it takes to pull new weeds and plant new seeds and then take care of that garden.

Think of this. You go out into your yard, and choose a spot in the lawn to plant a garden. YOU, the gardener or aspiring gardener (maybe first time), go out and till the grass up and plant watermelon. You know it will be watermelon come harvest because those are the only seeds you planted. The garden has no idea of it's heritage because it's a new garden. Neither do the seeds. So as the garden grows, the seeds of the watermelon sprout and begin to grow. Because it may be your first time having a garden, you didn't weed them properly and those watermelon weren't growing like you had expected them to grow. You were told that these are the best watermelon seeds available, however the garden itself would beg to differ because the harvest was not all that great. Weeds had taken over the garden.

So you try again next year. You risk planting some corn and some roses as well as some beans and you know that's what will grow because that's what you planted. This time however, you are careful to read up on gardening and learn how to properly weed the garden and take care of it and nurture it. When the harvest comes it's in abundance, yet it is still that same garden that did not produce well the year before. The difference is the gardener (consciousness), and how that gardener took care of his garden. Last year has been long forgotten and that garden is happy it's being kept after so both the gardener and the garden end up reaping that which has been sown in the harvest. If it had not been fertile ground, then you order enough dirt to make it so. If there hadn't been enough sun, you move the garden into the sun light. Either way, the gardener has full control over the garden and the garden can only produce that which has been planted.

Anyway, I'm rambling. I have to step away and I hope I'm making some sense with this... One last thought...

"If we believe we cannot change the harvest, we are right. If we believe we can, we are also right." - Justin Smile

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@Justin,

Justin;4111 wrote:

"If we believe we cannot change the harvest, we are right. If we believe we can, we are also right." - Justin

Hmm so right Justin!
Hear so often "you are just like your dad" but then i say "see, it's genetics!" and then ppl say "well that's an excuse, you gotta change it" etc. But the funny thing is my dad says the same thing!! Very Happy

So kinda paradoxical or what. Maybe we got it genetiuc that we tend to blame things on it - who knows!!
As for the other things - yes people can change but it takes patience and will and time.

BTW where you got the idea of garden from - you heard it somewhere or you made it up? Quite cool I must say!! (no surprising why you made this forum haha!! Smile

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@Justin,

Justin, a round about way for saying clean your act up.

If the average parent was a subscriber to a philosophy forum, they would not need much help in educating their children, I would think that they are more than aware of the skills needed.

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