Are humans better than animals ?

"You are a dog"

"Don't act like a donkey"

"As cunning as a fox"

Quite often we hear these phrases shouted at other people when they don't measure up to the expectations of the person shouting.

"He is as brave as a lion"

"You sing like a nightingale"

Sometimes (comparatively lesser) we do hear the goodies too :-)

Humans appear to have classified animals into good and bad depending on how they perceive the world and depending on whether people and situations measure up to their expectations.

Human mind is a challenge on the path to self realization

Human mind / thinking process that churns in the small organ called the Brain is such a magnificent thing to happen.

Happiness or sadness is a state of mind as most people say is 100% true. But it makes me think, why is it that we are unable to be eternally happy ? Why do we latch onto unhappiness and negativity throughout our life fully knowing that this unhappiness and negativity is coming out of our unfulfilled desires. We know that. Yet, we are unable to get out of it.

The mind is everything. What you think you become - Buddha

Such hard striking words from the Buddha.

In one of the discourses by Osho Rajneesh, he says the nature of the mind is to distract and influence the human and deprive him of the superior consciousness. He says, train yourself such that the mind listens to you. You should not be listening to the mind.