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that mind means all the accumulated prejudices. How can prejudices be just? When your mind is full of prejudices, concepts, ideologies, conclusions, beliefs, which have been handed over to you, which are not your own experiences which have been handed over by one generation to another generation for thousands of years... and sometimes such stupid ideas go on and on for centuries that one wonders whether to call man a rational being or not.
In fact Aristotle was the first man to define man as a rational being. He himself was not very rational. He went on writing in books that women have less teeth than men -- because that was the prevalent idea in Greece for thousands of years. He had two wives, he could have counted their teeth any day. Not only one but two wives were there, but he never counted their teeth. And this man says "Man is a rational being. " What kind of rational being is this? One woman is enough and you have two wives -- plenty! And it would have been no trouble; it was not such a great experiment that you needed money, sophisticated instruments or anything. He could have just told the wives "Open your mouth..." In fact wives always keep their mouths open! It is difficult to tell them to shut up! That's why every language is called "the mother tongue"... because the father never gets a chance to say anything!
In fact it is said that god created man first so that the poor man could at least say a few words before... He could not count his wives' teeth but he went on writing....
We always go on perpetuating prejudices, old ideas, because it is easier. Who wants to enquire about everything? And through these clouds we look at things. And then justice is not possible, it is absolutely impossible.
If Jews could have looked at Jesus by putting their minds aside there would have been justice, but they could not put their minds aside. They looked through the Jewish idea, so they started asking stupid things: "If you are the messiah, then prove this, prove that." In fact crucifying Jesus was only an effort to know whether he was the messiah or not. They were waiting for a miracle, for him to do his miracle, and if he had done a miracle
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