First some questions, what makes a mind strong?

Coherent patterns…?
Adaptability.

Other ideas?

Creativity and expression.

What makes thinking valuable? Does anything?

Doing things the correct way for survival.

Well, it allows us to make changes to make our worlds progress.

Can you have a strong mind without having high value thought?

Yes. How so? Hmmm… Well, mind is connected to experience and not just thought.

You can have a disciplined mind, even if the thoughts are shallow.

What is experience other than thought? And does discipline equal strength?

Sensation? Awareness?

Your body generates sensations without their registering on our consciousness quite regularly.

I can heighten awareness of sensation without formulating ideas about it? Heightened awareness is itself an idea you had.

Does what we know solve problems? Do the things we already understand equip us to deal with irregularities in our lives?

No, experiment with what we don’t know does.

Most problems need ideas we don’t currently have, that’s why they’re problems.

How do we know or recognize things we don’t know?

Confusion?

You can solve problems by using things you already know to push your knowledge forward.

Faith? Theory?

Are you ever calmed by the sudden awareness of a problem? Perhaps by the growing onset of this sort of awareness?

No…the opposite of calm.

How do things you already know push your knowledge forward? And how do we recognize forward moving knowledge?

It gives me an idea of where to investigate.

If you were never disturbed, would you ever really think? Can you have thoughts that aren’t disturbances?

I’ve come to recognize that sometimes getting lost is part of the process of moving forward.

You can use knowledge of how muscles work to try to fix problems with tendons being too tight, even if you haven’t had that particular problem before.

Medieval builders turned ships upside down basically to make a roof, so one discipline can help in another. If you are willing to subvert the other discipline, yes.

So, if you were never disturbed by anything, would you ever feel motivated to think about things?

Probably not.

Why’s that?

Strife gives motivation.

Not deeply anyway.

I am pretty much constantly thinking. I am also more or less constantly disturbed, sensory and neurological issues.

Does curiosity arise from disturbance? Indeed, curiosity does arise from disturbance.

Because things get quiet, too quiet, this is universally disturbing. It’s instinctive. We actually seek out distress. We, feel insecure if we can’t find any. Those who seem to only be happy when they are upset are not as strange as they might on the surface seem, they just take it to a non-constructive degree.

Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~