“Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure. All things are only its manifestations, and good deeds and evil deeds are only the result of good thoughts and evil thoughts respectively. Imagination, thought and will make deeds, and by our deeds we make ourselves. All that we are is the result of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts, made up of our thoughts.” (The Patriarch Hui-neng)
The mind over matter philosophy depicts of the ‘MIND’ to be the supreme of all the things and all the other things around us are subservient to it.
Your mind should stay impervious to all the troubling factors in the surroundings, potent enough not to get disturbed from the irritants present around. Irrespective of the size and gravity of the situation one is confronted with, the mind should be calm and in a pleasant mind and all the nerves of the mind should be enveloped by the hard covering of belief that as the ultimate source–The God— is with me and the ultimate victory belongs to me, so what is it to be disturbed by problems.
Reality is what it is because your mind has made it so. Your physical reality can change without your involvement, which can temporarily make you happier if the change is good, but another dip in circumstances will send you cascading down into the doldrums again. That is, of course, if you haven’t learned a bit about mind over matter. Your mind is not some static beast, as good as it ever will be and largely outside of your control, as many think of it. It’s actually nimble, and very responsive to how you use it.
You need to train your mind to change your brain. The brain of a master pianist is radically different from that of a musical beginner. Someone who loses their vision really does have their other senses rewired and improved.
There’s therefore no question that how you use your brain can have a dramatic effect on your life.