Religion aims to provide a frame, an interface to slide between the agitated mind and the reality of the world,
Such behavior will be observed behind this frame and pierced through according to the box in which it occurs,
Then, the believer will refer to the manual in order to match the box and what should be said about it, thought about it, as well as how to position oneself in reaction to this behavior.
Meditation offers an approach outside the framework (silent sitting aims, in part, at removing this framework)
For pedagogical reasons, the master may temporarily leave the disciple’s framework in place, then/or substitute an alternative framework in order to gradually dishabituate the mind.
Finally, it will always be appropriate to invite, again and again, the disciple to observe, not the behavior encoded by the framework but the mind at work upstream of the framework and the behavior observed.
The mind is the primary framework,
The mind is the framework to be removed.
©FJ Nov 2024
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Notes & Silence 
Religion is just one possible frame.
There are many, and I have only just learned how recognising, and facing, them, is necessary to controlling, minimising, removing them.
Well, I already knew I had a mind…!
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