A Beautiful Metaphor of CONDITIONING
If you plunge a frog into boiling water, it will immediately jump out.
But if you place the frog into cool water and slowly heat it to boiling, the frog won’t notice and will slowly cook to death.
E.W. Scripture, who wrote The New Psychology in 1897.
He cited earlier German research:
“. . . a live frog can actually be boiled without a movement if the water is heated slowly enough; in one experiment, the temperature was raised at the rate of 0.002 [degrees Celsius] per second, and the frog was found dead at the end of 2.5 hours without having moved.”
This is a beautiful metaphor for how the mind adjusts itself slowly but steadily i.e. how conditioning happens without our knowledge/awareness.
Perhaps the Masters/Gurus just want to make us realize that “all of our actions are happening under the influence of conditioning and genes”.
Perhaps for that purpose they prescribe various mental as well as physical techniques to practice i.e. they try to condition us in a new but easy way so that it can be understood easily.
If Masters say that there is nothing to change…..there is none who is required to be changed………everything is perfect in here-now (moment) ..it will amount to putting the frog in boiling temperature and the so called mind will not digest it.
If you plunge a frog into boiling water, it will immediately jump out.
But if you place the frog into cool water and slowly heat it to boiling, the frog won’t notice and will slowly cook to death.
E.W. Scripture, who wrote The New Psychology in 1897.
He cited earlier German research:
“. . . a live frog can actually be boiled without a movement if the water is heated slowly enough; in one experiment, the temperature was raised at the rate of 0.002 [degrees Celsius] per second, and the frog was found dead at the end of 2.5 hours without having moved.”
This is a beautiful metaphor for how the mind adjusts itself slowly but steadily i.e. how conditioning happens without our knowledge/awareness.
Perhaps the Masters/Gurus just want to make us realize that “all of our actions are happening under the influence of conditioning and genes”.
Perhaps for that purpose they prescribe various mental as well as physical techniques to practice i.e. they try to condition us in a new but easy way so that it can be understood easily.
If Masters say that there is nothing to change…..there is none who is required to be changed………everything is perfect in here-now (moment) ..it will amount to putting the frog in boiling temperature and the so called mind will not digest it.
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