The mind thinks itself to be very clever but actually mind is quiet foolish

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the mind is actually very mind thinks it is very clever but the mind is actually quite foolish at times the mind thinks that the problem is not the indulgence the problem is the consequence of the indulgence if I can somehow be clever enough to avoid the consequence then there is no problem in the indulgence so I once saw a traffic traffic joke the person was caught speeding and caught speeding the cop said did you not see the speed limit yes cop I saw the speed limit I just didn’t see you so the idea is actually speeding is not the problem getting caught while speeding is the problem so the principle so what is happening the mind is thinking that if I can indulge without getting the consequence then there is no problem so now why will somebody be speeding because they have a need for adventure, they want to make head turn, they want to get a sense of admiration many words which were traditionally negative now they have got positive connotations there is a word which is called speed demon speed demon means somebody who drives extremely fast as a demon possessed why are you driving so fast but many young people consider that complimentary I am speed demon I will drive fast yes just see how fast I can drive so I was in London I gave a class and some tricky questions were there so I answered the question so the devotee who had organized the program he just came out of the program and says you killed it what did I kill I was wondering did I sit on some creature and kill it so actually you killed it is a compliment coming from a hunting context an animal is running you shot it you killed it congratulations so now I didn’t want to kill anyone but the word killing normally has a negative connotation but in certain context it may get a positive connotation so the word speed demon now it has a positive connotation some people they speed not just because they want to get to a particular place quickly they speed because they have a need for adventure and if that need for adventure is not addressed in some constructive way then they will keep trying to find some way to fulfill that and if speeding is the way to do it they will do it just telling them you can meet with an accident this will happen that will happen I will take care I will enjoy and there will be no accident so there is a dare devilish attitude that comes up and when the dare devilish attitude is there then even if the unhealthy expression is there still somehow the mind thinks that I can get away with it if you look at the history of smoking initially when cigarettes started becoming popular in the 1920s 1930s initially the harmful effects of smoking were not known and when the harmful effects started coming to be known the cigarette companies tried to suppress those results tried to actually you don’t know this is caused by smoking it could be caused by so many other things they tried to suppress the results but eventually when the results started became so undeniable that they just thrust themselves into public domain then the cigarette companies changed the tack and they started advertising cigarette as a symbol cigarette smoking as a symbol of of a back woman of a person who is fearless who embraces danger who is a hero and just as a hero takes dangers to do various things similarly take the danger of smoke and paradoxically for several years after the mandatory announcement came mandatory note that cigarette smoking is injurious to health actually cigarette sales increased they didn’t decrease yeah its injurious but it won’t injure me I am a hero so that need for standing out that need for looking cool that need for being for being heroic for appearing heroic that need was being served by cigarette smoking and unless that need is addressed that cigarette smoking it will not work so what happens with us is that when our mind can misdiagnose and make us misunderstand in different ways one way is that even when something is bad it won’t affect you and we continue the indulgence that’s one way the mind makes us misunderstand we think that yeah this happens but I am an exception it won’t happen to me other is that when we resolve to do something and we are unable to do it then the mind makes us think you are so fallen you have no spine you never keep your word you are useless and in this way the mind beats us down again so the idea that I can get away with whatever enjoyment I want to do and there will be no consequence that idea comes from the mode of passion where I think that I am the enjoyer and if I am just clever enough then I can enjoy