The Upturning of the Mind Let me tell you something very simple — what you call happiness is not an achievement. It is a natural consequence of awareness. Right now, the human mind is trying very hard to become happy. But the very structure of the mind is not made for happiness. The mind is a survival instrument. Its job is to compare, calculate, protect, remember pain, and predict danger. So by its nature, it always leans downward — towards worry, fear, insecurity, and repetition. That is why, left to itself, the mind does not settle into well-being. It settles into disturbance. So mental suffering is not really a disease in most people. It is simply an untrained mind functioning in its default mode. Why Experiences Don’t Transform You People believe happiness comes from experiences. You eat something — you feel good. You celebrate — you feel alive. You work intensely — you feel purposeful. You keep yourself busy — you feel stable. But observe carefully. The experience ends. The mind...
From Nerves to Knowing Program Record Neurology Intensive Session 22/02/2016 Speaker: Dr. Parth How Neurology Slowly Walked Toward Consciousness Modern neurology began with a very modest goal: to find where disease sits in the brain. If a man could not speak — the lesion must be somewhere. If a limb would not move — a pathway must be damaged. The brain was treated like geography. But today we ask a radically different question: Not “Where is the damage?” but “What is the experiencer?” This shift did not happen through machines alone. It happened because a few thinkers refused to stop at tissue. The First Crack — The Mind Cannot Be Seen Sigmund Freud Freud was not trying to create psychology. He was trying to complete neurology. While studying aphasia and nerve disorders, he faced a paradox: Two patients could have the same brain injury — yet their suffering was entirely different. Neurology could map the lesion. But it could not explain fear, trauma, desire, or memory. So he proposed...