Heaven and Hell: Perceptual inertia

I remember a story that describes the concept of creating your own reality of heaven and hell on earth, in the here and now. A Samurai wanting to know about Heaven and Hell, so he goes to a wise master of mystical learning, to find the answer he seeks. The Samurai stands before him and asks "what is Hell?". The Master replies "I will not tell you anything, because you are arrogant and your cup is full!" The Samurai become so insulted that he draws his sword that places it next to the masters neck and states "You will dye for your insolence". The Master just smiles and nodes his head, then states "you are a wise man, you are now in Hell!" The Samurai sheaths his sword and smiles, nodes with total understanding in the wisdom of the Master. The Master again smiles and states, "My good Samurai, you are now in Heaven".  Here ends the story. Perceptual inertia is when we do not learn form our experiences and continue to make the same mistakes all the time, expecting the outcomes to be different. The concept of perceptual inertia comes under different names, depending on the field of work you do and the teaching you have had. Perceptual inertia is also known as; Mind Trap or Mind set. We all learn from our experiences we create schemas in our minds, this is like a filling cabinet full of scripts that guide our behaviour and reactions. The schemas are just like scripts from am play or movie, we have lots and lots of small scripts that try to cover everything that happens to us in our lives. It is when a script (schema) is written in our mind that is adaptive for one situation only and maladaptive for every other situation, that is when we encounter trouble, that is the mind trap or Perceptual inertia we are in and can't get out of. We repeat this script all the time and not even realise that it is the script that is wrong, we think that everyone ells is wrong, when in fact it is us. Lets look at a simple scrip or schema that we use almost of a daily bases but can be easily confused if we have a script that interprets the situation is the wrong way. When our emotions change, the script that we have changes, thus if we are happy and enjoying the moment, and someone smiles at us, we interpret this as friendly gesture. But if the emotions are disturbed, bad, full of suspicion and hatred, the script is changed and the situation can be misunderstood, and misinterpreted, so a simple smile can be seen as sarcasm. So we can see that our scripts that we have in our head create the Perceptual inertia that we live with.