Mind is a Garden!

Mind is a Garden! This is an understanding from a discussion about "How to shut off negative influences". This was so helpful to understand the mind plays.

Have we ever paid attention towards how our likes or dislikes formed?
Why are we sensitive to certain things and to others, insensitive?
how comfort zones and non comfort zones are created?
How we pay attention to petty issues and miss the most important things?
Who is to blame and what is the reason?
Let start the investigation by putting lots of such questions to ourselves. Understanding this process will help to take control of our mind , which will be at peace without distractions.

The whole mind is like a fertile land. In an unpurposeful land which has not been taken care for years, there are so many trees, shrubs, plants, etc. viz a wild thick forest area.
Some trees are small, some trees are big that bear fruits which fall over the same land and they sprout up again into big trees. It is impractical if we assume to have cleaned the land, just by cutting off a few shrubs and plants. We not only have to cut trees but uproot them completely to wipe out forever.
It is exactly the same process with our mind.The soil is mind where perceptions are trees which bear again fruits of experience and again form memory. Do we clean our mind as we maintain and clean our body parts? The mind is filled with habits, patterns and behaviors. When we work to get rid of some habits, sometime we are successful by WILL & determination, but, some may re appear in different form, some appears in same form after a long time and when we don't pay attention, many new unwanted habits we may acquire without our knowledge and finally again it becomes a thought and logic jungle.
It is just the behavior of mind to make new combinations every day, every minute and every second. What is the use of getting rid of one and acquiring a new combination?
All habits have deep roots firmly in to the soil of mind for many years and the whole mind is nourishing from the roots. We just look at the habits or the actions and try to work on them, which are just the leaves of the big tree. Plucking a few leaves, will not bring the tree down, when the tree nourishes from the ground in which its planted. That is the reason my new year resolution broke in January itself.

Well now, how we will proceed to clean and maintain our minds? The mind has to be understood as a whole and not in parts. We need to understand what is thought, emotions, anger, lust, greed, intellect, determination, all these attributes, which will increase awareness, and that is the key to reach the depths.
When there is a problem, there will always be a solution!.

To begin with 

* First is to Know our deep rooted mind, by staying calm and asking question why we are thinking like this. 
*Second is by observation of our core thinking which never changes. How it is formed and understanding the perception of holding those memories still in mind is the reason for attachment to particular memory. 
*Once we find that those past memories are no use for my Present or future living, we can leave them. We may feel bad to leave, but the path is correct, as we learned earlier the feeling and facts, with past memories we cant connect present, we are omitting present completely. The author herself have clung/is clinging towards memories, that’s reason unable to see the present moment. And people think the author is stupid, but the fact is author is clinging towards the thoughts which has completely hijacked the present, THE CONSCIOUS  FULLY ATTACHED TO MEMORY PREVENTS TO SEE PRESENT MOMENT. That’s why author notice people around her say often "open your eyes and fnd it".  But " where ? where? " shouts the author , like a lost kid in a carnival.

In human being, we have greatest a power God has given to Discover and APPLY them, God never stops us.