Does ‘trimming your vineyards’ in the Bible symbolize guarding your mind?

[jennifer_bloom]

The bible talks about trimming your vineyards, and I believe it means hedging and keeping your brain, by driving out evil thoughts.

If you do not fill your mind with good thoughts, the devil will fill your mind with evil thoughts, so to drive out new evil thoughts, you have to introduce and reintroduce over and over again, good thoughts into your life.

[mstbooblover]

Trimming one's vineyards can have different, but still similar meanings. The aim to literally trim vineyards is to remove parts of the plant that do not carry fruit, or take to much energy that would be lost for the grapes.

In order to learn something, we have to trim elements that do not help, or distract our mind, away from a topic. In some cases indeed, particularly in the sphere of religion and philosophies, it may mean removing "bad" and "evil" thoughts, although real wisdom would rather consist in paying attention to thoughts of any nature popping into our mind, without judging, in order to know ourselves better, and use correctly our real tendencies according circumstances.

Everything is relative, isn't it ;0)

[RichardCranium6201]

Because what u say out loud, is manifested to life. You speak it into existence. And when u say things out loud for yourself to hear, subliminally ur brain here's what your saying, and acts accordingly. If u always say, I suck at this, or im ugly, or why I do that, that was so stupid. Then u start feeling like these are true. Depressed. Like a weight was put on your back. As apposed to being positive when ur brain here's this, u start feeling better with like a 'i can do this' attitude.

[EmilyJoe]

I think that’s a thoughtful way to understand it. Whether someone takes it literally or symbolically, the idea of guarding your mind makes sense. What we keep thinking about can slowly shape our attitude, choices, and peace, so filling the mind with better thoughts is definitely important.