The saver mind vs. The trouble-maker mind

There are mainly 2 minds within each one of us:

The knowing mind (other names: wisdom, intuitive, observing) vs. the habitual mind (other names: the like-dislike mind, auto-thinking mind, repetitive mind). 

Your thinking mind can think about only 1 thing at a time, not the whole picture. That’s the reason why you have trouble making decisions using thinking: one day you like doing something, other days you don’t. When you focus on one aspect of a thing, you like it. When you focus on another area, you don’t. 

There are 2 kinds of thinking:

• Automatic thinking is the trouble-maker mind. It’s your unconscious, habitual mind; your like-dislike mind.

• Deliberate thinking can first come from your knowing mind. We know what we should think about. But then, if we stay with thinking, it changes itself to automatic thinking: repetitive, guessing, building stories.

The knowing mind derived from your direct observation. It’s more gentle, subtler. You can’t really see it as clear as you see your thoughts. Sometimes it just gives you a spark of knowing without any reason. Sometimes you suddenly understand something based on your direct observation. 

But the 2 minds have an overlapping zone. Sometimes thinking is a way to know; other times thinking just obstructs knowing. That’s the reason why you have difficulty differentiating them.

But when you truly want to know, you will have a way to know them. That’s how amazingly our system works.