After noon. You had physical therapy this
morning, took a nap, and have been working on moving leaves from the yard to
the street as there is a pickup tomorrow. Once Carol finishes composing an
email you are going to lunch and running errands; the usual. - Amorella
Late dusk/dark. You and
Carol finished raking leaves about half an hour ago. Carol is on her iMac and
listening to the local news. Spooky is looking out the front window (blind up
about a foot) Jadah is keeping Carol company at her computer. You are in the
living room with Spooky. - Amorella
1757 hours. We had a late lunch of Egg McMuffins at McD's, otherwise we
spent the afternoon raking leaves and sprucing up the lawn, garage, etc. More
weekend leftovers for supper. I'm ready to call it a day. Sure glad I had a nap
this morning.
You relaxed with a makeshift light supper,
the news three shows: NBC News, "NCIS.LA", "Madam Secretary"
and "The This Old House Hour". - Amorella
2217 hours. In thinking about the nature of the mind I agree most with
Reynolds' quotation at the conclusion of the article:
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According
to the translation with commentary, "Self-Liberation Through Seeing with
Naked Awareness", by John Myrdhin Reynolds, the phrase, "It is the
single nature of mind which encompasses all of Samsara and Nirvana,", . .
. to the teaching that, "whether one finds oneself in the state of
Samsara or in the state of Nirvana, it is the nature of the mind which reflects
with awareness all experiences, no matter what may be their nature." . . .
Reynolds elucidates further with the analogy of a mirror. 'To say that a single
mirror can reflect ugliness or beauty, does not constitute an allegation that
all ugliness and beauty is one single mirror.'
Selected from Wikipedia - Panpsychism
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2229
hours. The quotation suggests to me that by including 'Samsara
and Nirvana' there is a spiritual attachment to nature of the mind, i.e., that the mind has spiritual
qualities.
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Saṃsāra is a Sanskrit word that means
"wandering" or "world", with the connotation of cyclic,
circuitous change. It also refers to the theory of rebirth and
"cyclicality of all life, matter, existence", a fundamental
assumption of all Indian religions. Saṃsāra is sometimes referred
to with terms or phrases such as transmigration, karmic cycle, reincarnation,
and "cycle of aimless drifting, wandering or mundane existence".
The concept of Saṃsāra has roots in the Vedic
literature, but the theory is not discussed there. It appears in developed
form, but without mechanistic details, in the early Upanishads. The
full exposition of the Saṃsāra doctrine is found in Sramanic religions
such as Buddhism and Jainism, as well as the various schools of Hindu
philosophy, after about the mid 1st millennium BCE. The Saṃsāra doctrine
is tied to the Karma theory of Indian religions, and the liberation from Saṃsāra has
been at the core of the spiritual quest of Indian traditions, as well as their
internal disagreements. The liberation from Saṃsāra is
called Moksha, Nirvana, Mukti or Kaivalya.
Nirvana (Sanskrit, also nirvāṇa;
Pali: nibbana, nibbāna ) is the earliest and most
common term used to describe the goal of the Buddhist path. The literal meaning
is "blowing out" or "quenching." It is the ultimate
spiritual goal in Buddhism and marks the soteriological release from rebirths in saṃsāra. Nivana is part of the
Third Truth on "cessation of dukkha"
in the Four Noble Truths, and the summum
bonum destination of the Noble Eightfold Path.
Within the Buddhist tradition, this term has commonly been
interpreted as the extinction of the "three fires", or
"three poisons", passion, (raga),
aversion (dvesha) and ignorance (moha or avidya). When these fires are
extinguished, release from the cycle of rebirth (saṃsāra) is attained.
Nirvana has also been deemed in Buddhism to be identical with anatta (non-self) and sunyata (emptiness) states. In
time, with the development of Buddhist doctrine, other interpretations were
given, such as the absence of the weaving (vana) of activity of the
mind, the elimination of desire, and escape from the woods, cq. the five skandhas or aggregates.
Buddhist scholastic tradition identifies two types of nirvana: sopadhishesa-nirvana
(nirvana with a remainder), and parinirvana
or anupadhishesa-nirvana (nirvana without remainder, or final
nirvana). The founder of Buddhism, the Buddha, is believed to have reached both
these states. Nirvana, or the liberation from cycles of rebirth, is
the highest aim of the Theravada tradition. In the Mahayana tradition, the
highest goal is Buddhahood, in which there is no abiding in
Nirvana, but a Buddha continues to take rebirths in the world to help liberate
beings from saṃsāra by teaching the Buddhist path.
Both words are selected and edited from - Wikipedia
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Boy, you already came to that conclusion by
accepting my concept (for this blog) of the 'heartansoulanmind' meaning 'the
human spirit' i.e., that the human spirit has three parts. Post. - Amorella
2257 hours. Yes, it is strange. I did accept that some years ago. Deep
within this concept has some truth to it. The full truth though is invisible
because the words 'human spirit' and 'heartansoulanmind' are facsimiles. Each
in 'Reality' may be as a single letter of fuller understanding in the placement
of dimensions-within-a-series-of-universes or universes-within-a-series-of-dimensions
-- both here to me, meaning the same thing (when in fact in English they do
not); (hyphens help correct that for me so I added them). I grok both 'dimensions'
and 'universes' as one word. (2309)
Do you now, boy? Is this the same as
discarding saṃsāra for nirvana?
- Amorella
2313 hours. It is esoteric but
not spiritual, at least I don't think it is. I don't know. Thank you for the
question, that is, unless it is sarcastic.
Even if the question is sarcastic, I accept
the 'thank you,' as sincere. - Amorella
2315 hours. It is sincere, either
way.
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