The Mind is where all creativity and art take a back seat.
For the realms of the Mind,
no matter how far one goes looking,
or what "tool" they use in their search,
are a dead end.
How can one find anything truly valuable
in a land that is barren and empty of all virility?
Yes, they will find ready-made cookie-cutter answers.
Yes, they will find proofs, theorems, and analysis.
Yes, they will find methodologies and techniques.
Yes, they will find what others have "found".
But...
Will they find that which has yet to be found?
Will they find masterpieces?
Will they find them?
No, not a chance.
You see man massively misunderstood the Mind.
It is not just that he took it for something else entirely,
paying the price in "all things mediocre" and "all things struggle",
but also that he allowed it to take him too easily.
No, he did not "lose".
For there was no fight.
...
An acquaintance of mine was once telling me about one of his.
About how the said person is paid a fortune to ski in the alps.
For when the person skis, ideas, and radical notions "come to him".
Which are then expanded into theorems and mathematical models.
This output is what is revered by academia,
and worth a fortune in the world of technical innovation.
My acquaintance used this story to pitch to me to go skiing with him.
Lest you take my acquaintance for a half-sane person,
I must reveal that he was half-joking.
But I intend to use this example to make the point.
What point?
The point of the title of this post.
The point that the Mind just does not understand.
It misses the forest for the trees.
For the moral of the fable is not
"skiing will give you notions worth millions".
It is that when one is not stuck in his Mind,
he suddenly becomes a vessel for otherworldliness,
and things, acts or entities,
that the Mind just cannot "cook-up" or "formulate".
Side note, if I ever meet his acquaintance,
I will show him how he can become "a vessel" in his living room
so that when he skis, he can SKI.
...
Now this may have you wonder,
if the Mind cannot produce art,
generate radical notions out of thin air,
allow one to learn a movement in the most unique way possible,
or as I put it early in the post,
is a dead end,
what is it there for?
I have answered this many times.
IT IS A TOOL
Tool for what?
It is a tool for understanding.
It is a tool for expression.
In the example above,
after the person "receives" what the world will know
as a new theorem or a postulation,
the Mind comes is as an "interpreter"
and assists in the expression into words, symbols, corollaries, proofs, etc.
In the very same way, though "I" am typing these words,
was the knowledge acquired through my Mind?
Did I find "all of my writings" somewhere in my Mind?
Not at all.
The knowledge was acquired because it was acquired,
out of nowhere, there was no Mind involved.
And to be more open,
at times there is no knowledge.
There is just pure intent for the reader,
which are "automatically" put into words.
Thank you.