The Muslim tradition, from the legal specialists to the Sufi mystics, has continuously oscillated between these two poles: the intelligence of the heart sheds the light by which the intelligence of the mind observes, perceives and derives meaning.
When the mind observes the moving billiard ball strike the stationary one, it is moved by force of habit and custom to form an idea of the movement of the stationary ball i.e., to believe that the stationary ball will move.
Until fairly recently the popular route was mindfulness-based meditation, which is about monitoring your mind: observing any thoughts that arise and then returning to the breath as the vehicle to return to the present moment.
It belongs to another person; you are just a mind observing it.
In his sophisticated argument against the physiocrats (those who advocated the supremacy of agriculture), he intelligently employed the idea of the division of labour to defend those who labour with their minds, observing that service is as important as productivity.
The only difference to keep in mind, he observes, is while A-levels are accepted by every university, some won't consider BTecs at all".
In 'Studio Thinking: How Visual Arts Teaching Can Promote Disciplined Habits of Mind,' Ellen Winner observes that "focus and develop inner-directedness... (are) taught first and foremost by presenting students with challenging projects that engage them and require sustained work".
According to the modern mind, Tarnas observes, "Apart from the human being, the cosmos is seen as entirely impersonal and unconscious... mere matter in motion, mechanistic and purposeless, ruled by chance and necessity.
And mindfulness - one aspect of it, at least - tries to get the mind to observe how the mind, or OS (Operating System) as I call it, is functioning.
Through the state of no-mind, Zen observes that each individual thing that is mirrored is recognized for the first time to be individual qua the individual with a sense of equality that is due to other individual things.
Learning from these studies, one should therefore be cautious when drawing conclusions from such analyses, and keep in mind that observing the traces left by mobile phones is only observing selected parts of the whole picture.
