Instead of defining them, I invite you to experience it… or rather become aware of the conditioned mind you already are experiencing.
Some questions that may trigger the awareness…
What brand of clothing do you like or prefer?
What brand of car do you love?
What kind of man/woman do you think is hot?
Where would you like to go on vacation?
Android or iPhone?
Whom do you consider as your hero?
Which religion is for you?
What are your political views?
Are you Vegetarian? Vegan? Love meat?
All these question are easily answerable… easy. But, why do you hate what you hate, love what you love?
What formed your opinions? What formed your views, perceptions?
Mostly they are from mass-media, teachers we had, books we read, friends we cherished, heroes we worshiped.
So if you are a bundle of conditioning that you soaked unknowingly all your life… there comes a time you start to realise it. Everything you do, like, hate, speak, love, comes from some kind of external message, propaganda, one sided stories - they are in one word… unexamined.
Now, having realised this, some of us go to the other extreme… do everything the opposite what the masses do… or go about attempting to have an unconditioned mind.
They are unexamined, because you are like a simple robot… action, reaction… because that is how it was, it is for others, normal, that’s what your friends do or say, your heroes do or say, …
The awareness now has fallen on a conditioned mind. The intellectual mind goes off to fight it. Another condition. Subtle.
As one grows in awareness, the things you start to do, are the things that really resonate deep within you. You start to examine your own dukkha, dukkha in others. An arising of compassion.>
Unconditioned mind is an idealised version of itself. Mind loves it! Why? It now can work on it forever, without reaching it.
Mind fights, heart remains.