What Is The Mind ?
What Is The Mind ?
What is the mind from Classical sources, and specifically in relationship to the Khandas ?
Re: What Is The Mind ?
Hello Peter,
The Mind – talk by Ven. Dr. Punnaji
http://www.buddhistelibrary.org/en/disp ... hp?pid=676" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Persevere with the audio ......I'd be interested to hear what you think.
with metta
Chris
The Mind – talk by Ven. Dr. Punnaji
http://www.buddhistelibrary.org/en/disp ... hp?pid=676" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Persevere with the audio ......I'd be interested to hear what you think.
with metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
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---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: What Is The Mind ?
I will have a wee listen in an hour or two Chris..thank you...
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Re: What Is The Mind ?
Greetings Peter,
Do you mean "citta" (Pali) or "the mind" (English)?
Metta,
Retro.
Do you mean "citta" (Pali) or "the mind" (English)?
Metta,
Retro.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
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The Mind Retro...A term we use without qualifiers....assuming a common understanding.
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Hello Peter,
Another, more academic, text:
The Mind in Early Buddhism - Bhikkhu Thich Minh Thanh
http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/mind/00_toc.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
with metta
Chris
Another, more academic, text:
The Mind in Early Buddhism - Bhikkhu Thich Minh Thanh
http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/mind/00_toc.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
with metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: What Is The Mind ?
Indebted as always to my antipodean mentor.
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Excellent Chris...he makes what could be obscure very clear and accessible, he is particularly good on the problems that come when nama and rupa are translated as "body and mind" thus giving rise to a major misunderstanding of the Buddhas teaching...as he says..." there is no mind and no matter, there are just sense impressions " which is the Royal Way through the minefield which is the Cartesian Split.cooran wrote:Hello Peter,
The Mind – talk by Ven. Dr. Punnaji
http://www.buddhistelibrary.org/en/disp ... hp?pid=676" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Persevere with the audio ......I'd be interested to hear what you think.
with metta
Chris
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Enormous amount of food for thought...in the context of our tendency to reify processes he sayscooran wrote:Hello Peter,
Another, more academic, text:
The Mind in Early Buddhism - Bhikkhu Thich Minh Thanh
http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/mind/00_toc.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
with metta
Chris
" Citta as a unitary term is nothing more than a convenient collective noun to comprehend a wide and complex nexus of mental states in flux"...
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very good and interesting talk! I also would like to know what Ven. Dr. Punnaji has to say about sañña... but this would be off topic.cooran wrote:Hello Peter,
Another, more academic, text:
The Mind in Early Buddhism - Bhikkhu Thich Minh Thanh
http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/mind/00_toc.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
with metta
Chris
Thag 1.20. Ajita - I do not fear death; nor do I long for life. I’ll lay down this body, aware and mindful.
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I dont think it would be off-topic acinteyyo...In fact I think it would entirely apropos...
Sanna I think would come squarely into what is translated loosly as " mind".
Any links Chris...anyone ?
Sanna I think would come squarely into what is translated loosly as " mind".
Any links Chris...anyone ?
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Hello Peter, acinteyyo, all,
Maybe something in A Buddhist Perspective of Modern Psychotherapy & Evolution of Consciousness - By Ven. Dr. Madawela Punnaji
’The method of entering a state of tranquillity of the mind through meditation was known to the Indian yogis even before the Buddha. There were eight deep levels of tranquillity that the yogis had reached during the time of the Buddha. The Buddha went only one step further and temporarily stopped all activities of the mind by entering a state of quiescence which was similar to hibernation. This state was called sañña vedayita nirodha, which means, “cessation of sensation and feeling.” It was when rising from this state that the Buddha “awakened from the dream of existence.” ‘
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37277629/A-Bu ... chotherapy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
with metta
Chris
Maybe something in A Buddhist Perspective of Modern Psychotherapy & Evolution of Consciousness - By Ven. Dr. Madawela Punnaji
’The method of entering a state of tranquillity of the mind through meditation was known to the Indian yogis even before the Buddha. There were eight deep levels of tranquillity that the yogis had reached during the time of the Buddha. The Buddha went only one step further and temporarily stopped all activities of the mind by entering a state of quiescence which was similar to hibernation. This state was called sañña vedayita nirodha, which means, “cessation of sensation and feeling.” It was when rising from this state that the Buddha “awakened from the dream of existence.” ‘
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37277629/A-Bu ... chotherapy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
with metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Re: What Is The Mind ?
cooran wrote: Maybe something in A Buddhist Perspective of Modern Psychotherapy & Evolution of Consciousness - By Ven. Dr. Madawela Punnaji
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37277629/A-Bu ... chotherapy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
with metta
Chris
Forgive my ignorance, but I tried to download this, and can only do so if I agree to all sorts of Facebook shennanagins (permissions etc.). Is this the only way?
Thank-you.