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The Mind Is Like......................................
Shoshin
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The Mind is like.......... a time machine (at times a somewhat faulty one) it can take one back to relive past events and forward to explore possibilities that may lie in the future .... and all from the comfort ( or discomfort) of one's own body 
The Mind is like.....................................................( keep it short and sweet )
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Define mind? To me it is just bare awareness. What you're describing above are thoughts.
He's right, @Shoshin.. Mind is like nothing. Else.
What you're expressing is what goes on unguarded, in Mind....
In classical Abhidharma texts, the mind is the viññana rupa, and a bit of a composite of all the others.
The process of awareness, from perception of stimuli to reaction or response, is pretty complex and involves all rupas, from the most physical to the subtlest.
Perception, consciousness, feeling and disposition are all involved.
We grow up discriminating between a me-entity and an other-entity, but the Yogacara school puts forth the challenge of viewing both self and other as simple conceptions occurring within a same process of consciousness.
What we take to be fixed objects of perception and a fixed self that perceives can be viewed as a simple process of consciousness taking place.
Mind is like consciousness.
Mind IS Consciousness.
Mind is like a view from a train window — ever-changing.
More or less exactly so ... (slight edits)
I duz my best ...
The mind is like ....a 'thought' and apart from thoughts there is no such thing as Mind...Therefore thought is the nature of Mind .. ...
~Maharshi~
Or to put it in modern parlance,
"The mind is, like, wow...."
The mind is like being in the woods during a snowstorm.
I like the analogy of the mind to the sky and thoughts to clouds. Clouds move through the mind but never touch it or affect it.
At the risk of making this long and sour, this view is maybe more of a Mahayana view and may go against the Theravada view of mind, or not, I'm not clear on the Theravada distinction between mind and consciousness. But certainly differs from the above view.
Certainly I can't speak from any direct experience. Is there a mind that remains when thinking or even feeling subside? From the little I've learned about deep states of meditation there is a stage where all experience shuts down, but if one persists this state gives way to a deeper state of open, clear mind.
My definitions for certain terms.
Mind - an empty theater stage
Thoughts, feelings, etc. - the actors and sets
Consciousness - the play of actors and sets on the stage doing things
This mind is like... a witch's brew.
The Mind is like ..........an onion when peeling off layer upon layer finally exposing its empty nature which is still full of itself
...It's wonder full ...
I would go so far as to say it's mind.....
I'm a little disappointed that no one has yet mentioned a monkey.
The monkey mind metaphor has been so extensively used and abused, that we were all trying to be a bit more original, I guess...
Quite right - I intended the comment to be humorous - I seem to see monkeys all over the place.
The mind seems like a bit of smoke that can't quite be grasped - we seek it here, we seek it there, we monkeys seek it everywhere.
What was that Zen story about the monk who asks his master to pacify his mind, and the master responds "show me your mind". The pupil is dumbfounded and can say nothing, and the master says "there, your mind is pacified", or something like that.
I suppose we are never so aware of the existence of a mind, as when we try to sit down on the meditation cushion and we get bombarded non-stop by all kinds of thoughts.
Monkey mind hurling back peanuts at us...
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My mind is like
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Smoke grasping, cloud juggling, mist drifting and mud drowning ...
As we sit and watch/here the mind mound settle, the lotus grow, the Sun rise,
What passes as mind?
Pass.
The Mind
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The mind is like ....nothing I have ever experienced and at the same time all that I experience...It's truly mind boggling ....
The mind is like......Hmm my mind's gone blank ...and try as I might nothing comes to mind ...zilch empty...Oh well never mind ...it doesn't really matter ... so I will pay it no mind
....Trying to be what I am seeking....
The mind is like... a good servant, but an awful master...
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Or as the pixies asked...Where is my mind?
mind is like make it yourself instant pudding,it changes with you.besides pudding is yummy.the mind dont mind?!
The mind is like ....a dream bubble machine...constantly blowing bubbles and as one pops another arises...
The mind is like an amusement park. Full of games of skill and chance, thrilling and scary rides, bumper cars, a haunted house and plenty of poor quality comfort food. All of which leave you feeling happy or sick and worn down by the end of the day, and yet you want to go back again and again.
Excellent description
The mind is like... a blank cinema screen
Mumonkan Case 30
Daibai asked Baso, What is the Buddha?"
Baso answered, "The mind is the Buddha."
Not much use without a projector (Samsara?)
I would say WE are the 'projector'...
Having a right mind means having everything needed for a successful navigation and travel.
There is a projector...
... thoughts are what we pay little mind to ...
Bear awareness is just another thought ... but bare awareness is Mindfulness or Mind/Buddha Being
So in a sense we have a samsara mind and an underlying, more settled un-mind, Mind as Nirvana, that thinks without downing and drowning in interior mind chatter.
Yogi Bare Mind
It's a bit what I had in mind when I thought of the blank cinema screen image.
I remembered Pema Chödrön's phrase "You are the sky: everything else is just the weather."
The mind is a blank screen.
All else are just projections.
Just so @Buddhadragon ! ❤
"The mind- what shall I call it?
It is the sound of the breeze
that blows through the pines
in the ink wash picture"
~Ikkyu
The mind is a big ball of 100 billion interconnected neurons that need to be re-wired.
Now that I am almost 70, my mind is a lot like jello.
The mind is like ...
Science is on it ... very informative leading edge documentary
https://www.cheninstitute.org/en/minds-wide-open/
I'll join.
In a funny sort of way, Dharma/Buddha Mind is unplugged. When reconnected/rebooted what happens?
No-Mind? Know Mind? Nothing ...
The mind is like..... an assault course in a mine field...many mind blowing moments...
Hmm
How open should our minds be?
Middle way...
This one deserves an "Insightful" and two "LOLs". Has anyone ever read "The Demon Haunted World" by Mr. Sagan?
I loved Carl Sagan's extraordinary "Cosmos" series when I was a child, and bought the DVD collection to watch with my son and hopefully infect him with the same passion I have for Carl Sagan.
I must have read the book a hundred times, too.
But I have not read that one...
@Buddhadragon Wikipedia can explain the book better than I can:
I must get that one, then.
It sounds just like my reading stuff...