Mental Filter

Mind Filter: When the External World is Defined by the Inner World

"Why is the same event, one passive but the other suffering?"

Have you ever wondered if what we "perceive" is the truth, or is it just a prepared product?

Imagine that our mind is like a water filter, and that "stimulus" (taste, smell, sound, touch, people's words) is "raw water."

These waters have a variety of natural, sometimes clear, clean, sometimes cloudy, sedimentary, with hot, cold temperatures varying, but it is only a natural phenomenon that occurs and flows through.

The Toxic Filter

The key turning point lies in the "filter" within our hearts.

In each person, this filter is of unequal quality. It is woven from:

Past Memories

Future expectations

Love, hatred, fear.

Interpreting and giving meaning

The problem is...Many people's filters are not just "filtered," but instead "added toxins."

If your filter accumulates "heavy metals" (rage, knots in mind, prejudice), no matter how pure clean the incoming water is, it will immediately become "poison water."

You may hear plain (freshwater) speech, but the filter interprets it as insulting (poisoning). The result is pain caused not by the person speaking, but by chemical reactions inside your own filter.

Mental development is clearing filters.

Practice, mindfulness training, or psychotherapy is actually the process of "Maintenance," or maintenance of filters.

Removing Sediment Wash: Knowing Emotions and Residual Memories

Removing Heavy Metals: Cleansing Biases and Attachments That Keep Reacting to Stimuli

Filter Upgrade: Develop Wisdom to Be More Neutral (Neutral)

When the filter is clean and high-quality, it will not exaggerate the reaction. Hot water only knows that it is hot. Turbid water only knows that it is turbid, but there is no "us" to the pain of heat or turbidity.

Today...Did you check your "filter"?

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