The human mind is simply the expression of consciousness, which is invisible and unmeasurable, even though it controls and regulates every functioning of our brain and body.

Our level of consciousness decides the types of thoughts we harness. People with higher consciousness always harness constructive, useful, and realistic thoughts. On the contrary, people with lower consciousness always harness destructive, useless, and delusional thoughts.

The efficiency of our sensory perceptions, such as vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, in relation to the activities, objectives, or roles we engage in with our external environments significantly influences the state of our mind.

The state of our mind emerges from the interconnection and integration of various elements: our sensory inputs, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, trust, love, empathy, sympathy, mercy, kindness, compassion, sacrifice, memories, character, maturity, willpower, determination, commitment, gratitude, ideas, imagination, inspiration, motivation, enthusiasm, ambition, feelings, fear, perception, hope, experiences, intellect, and our internal and external environments. This, altogether, is controlled and regulated by our level of consciousness.

While our state of mind is the closest most of us come to experiencing the Mind, the Mind’s existence extends beyond our state of mind. Through the evolution of consciousness, we gain the ability to control and regulate our thoughts. Through commanding our thoughts, we are then able to reach the state of thoughtlessness (Samadhi). It is in this silence that we can experience the true nature of the Mind. This is possible after attaining Enlightenment.