As a practitioner of meditation and other things... ... could have told you that one. Before I started serious practice, if I were to liken my mind to a compu

As a practitioner of meditation and other things... ... could have told you that one. Before I started serious practice, if I were to liken my mind to a computer running Linux: out-of-control processes exceeding available memory; processes that call each other and recurse in loops, getting into dead-locks and race conditions; hard storage filled with junk -- files, logs, random crap all over the place; layers and layers of different package management and manually compiled/hacked programs; worms and security exploits hidden all over the place. And the ironic part: I thought I was doing good. That's one of the big things I learned, that many of the mental thought streams and habits of the mind I thought were necessary turns out to be ... not. I had attached them to my identity, but they really were not serving me, my friends and family, and my community well. And here's the kicker -- having spent a lot of time cleaning out my mind, I can tell when other people have their own dysfunctional processes. In even people you might consider well-adjusted, there lurks all sorts of unexamined things in the subconscious, yet leaks out if you pay attention and have the clarity of mind to see it.