What is “The Mind?”

Understanding the phenomenon that controls your life

Luan Hassett
ILLUMINATION
Published in
2 min readApr 28, 2023

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I won’t attempt a definition of “The Mind.” That would get us nowhere since the terms in the definition would themselves need to be defined. Instead I want to clear up some confusion: spiritual teachers speak as though absolute truth can be comprehended once you learn to see beyond theories, which the mind specializes in generating and which…

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Luan Hassett
ILLUMINATION

Essays and poems about the use of limited time.