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Thich Nhat Hanh published this book . It is a book on the Buddhist phylosophy and psychology.

To my level of knowledge ,it is a pretty hard book to assimilate,and could not be put with Mindfulness Trainings.


Loong

To all or none,

To know if someone is happy,you only have to look at the seeds
in his store consciousness(subconscious).If there are strong seeds of unhappiness ,anger,discrimination,and delusion,he will suffer greatly,and it is likely that through his actions he will water these unwholesome seeds in others.If his seeds of understanding,compassion,forgiveness,and Joy are strong ,not only is he capable of true happiness but he will be able to water the seeds of happiness in others.Our daily practice is to recognize and water the wholesome seeds in ourselves and others.Our happinessand the happiness of others depend on it.

TNH

loong

To all or none,

From what I have read so far,I'll have lots of work to do.

loong

To all or none,

Taken from the Mind Consciousness section

Mind Consciousness is always functionning
except in states of non-perception,
the two attainments,
deep sleep,fainting or coma

text from Thich Nhat Hanh


loong

p.s two attainments are described as ,a meditive state of non
thinking and the state of no perception

To all or none.

Few of the postings ,I have made in this thread are from a 50
lessons ,by VASUBANDA,a sage that was at the beginning of pschy-
cology ,and phylosophy of the Buddhist movement.

Thich Nhat Hanh ,when as young 16 year old monk,could not comprehend fully these 50 verses on the Nature of Consciousness
and had to come back often to fully understand,their true meanings.
So will I.

loong

To all or none,

So let us us start on Consciousnesses.
The first one we will deal with is STORE CONSCIOUSNESS.
To Those whom are new to consciousness ,Store consciousness,in every day world is called Subconscious.These 2 last lines were added by myself to render the texts,easier as possible as recommanded by my Teacher Lisa.
According to the teachings Of Manifestation Only Buddhism.our
Mind has eight "consciousnesses".The first five are based in our physical senses. They are the consciousnesses that arise when our eyes see form,our ears hear sounds,our nose smells an odor, our tongue tastes something,or our skin touches an object.The sixth ,mind consciousness (manovijnana),arises when our Mind contacts an objet of perception.The seventh ,manas, is the part of of consciousness that give rise to and is the support of Mind consciousness.The eight ,Store consciousness
(alayavijnana),is the ground ,or base,of the other seven consciousnesses

Enough for now .
Master Thich Nhat Hanh

To all or none,
Text from Wutai Mountain,China

The store consciousness is clear and undefinable.
Like a great river, it is always changing.
Neither pleasant nor unpleasant, when one becomes fully realized, it ceases to exist.

to all or none,

The Mind is a field.

Mind is a field
in which every kind of seed is sown.
This mind-field can also be called
"all the seeds"

Thich Nhat Hanh

To all or none,

Store consciousness is neither the same nor different,
individual or collective,
Same and different inter-are.Collective and individual give rise to each other.

From ;Chapter True or not True.

Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

To all or none,

The quality of our life
depends on the quality
of the seeds
that lie deep in our consciousness.

Master Thich Nhat Hanh

To all or none,

When sunlight shines,
it helps all vegetation grow.
When Mindfulness shines,
it tranforms all mental formations.

Master Thich Nhat Hanh

To all or none,

The present moment
contains past and future .
The secret of transformation
is in the way we handle THIS VERY MOMENT.

Master THich Nhat Hanh

To all or none,
This is about Manas!

With store consciousness as its support,
manas arises,
its function is mentation.
grasping the seeds it considers to be a "self"

as I wrote earlier there are things in Buddhism I do not Understand.

This is one of them. I know that in the 55,000 members are mutch more advanced then I am.So someone.HELP

loong

I liked your first two posts on this page, Loong. The third one I don't understand either.

What is the context before and after this part Loong?

I am familiar with 'manas' as being that part of our mind that is linked to us acting, in terms of thoughts, words, and deeds. So to me this seems to have to do with the way this kind of thinking and the ways we act, think or speak in the world keep us attached to ourselves as individuals, keeps us attached to our separate volition. This is one of the main ways we experience ourselves as 'separate' in the world, the foundation for ego or self.

Dear Teacher,

This is part 2 of the 50 verses of Nature of consciousness
Part 1-Store consciousness
Part 2-Manas
Part 3-Mind consciousness
Part 4- Sese Consciousness
Part 5-The Nature of Reality
Part 6-The path of Practice

Most of the 50 verses are easyly comprehended.Others !!!!!

loong

To all or none,

Went to the hospital emergency for about 5 hours today.Brought with me Understanding my mind.

What I read today,just the part I read,a book could be written
on it.The last pages were on Right Effort,explained so clearly ,so full of love.
There is too mutch text to be given to this post.Everything I read,I understood and felt it entered my non-self.
Buy this book.

Loong.

As, I see, so it is really organized according to the layers of the mind. Manas is the second, with 'store consciousness' as its foundation. So I think that makes sense then - 'mentation' is the first level of what we usually think of as thinking, and its the part connected to our will to act, speak and think. It's what triggers those actions as separate beings.

To all or none,
The seeds that we receive from our ancestors,friends, and society
are held in our consciousness, just as the earth holds the seeds that fall upon it.like the seeds in the earth,the seeds in our
store consciousness are hidden from us.We are seldom in contact with them.Only when they manifest in our mind consciousness do we become aware of them.When we feel happy,we may believe that there is no seed of anger in us.But as soon as someone irritates us,our seed of anger will make itself known.

loong,s comment: It is my belief ,that,this seed of anger has many
Facets to it.

Loong
Part of the Oneness

Yes, this is why being triggered is a gift. It shows us parts of ourselves that may have lay dormant for incarnations, and so we never realized we were not free of them. If we can work with them moment by moment, it is 1000 times more powerful than retreat. Not always an easy path though!

Dear Lisa,

I beleive that any change is in some way difficult.
Becoming one's true self ,I beleive is the hardest.

Loong

In a few days I will retake my vows.

To all or none

Again from TNH.

Habit energy is an important term in Buddhist psychology.Our seeds carry the habit énergies of thousand of years.The Sanskrit term for habit energy,is Vasana,means "to permeate ,"to impregnate.Because of habit energies WE ARE NOT ABLE to perceive things as they TRULY are.We interpret everything we see or hear in terms of our habit energy.If you crumble a sheet of paper ,it
is difficult to make it flat again .It has the the habit energy of being crumpled.We are the same.

loong's comment: I will go farther by saying that what is the true seed has been altered through eons and with the contacts we had ,had with it,in this life.

loong
Part of the Oneness

To all or none,

We have to recognize,embrace,and transform our negative habit energies and train ourselves,to have more positive habit energies.

These positives habits need to be cultivated,because our negative habits always push us to do and say things that bring suffering to ourselves and others.
Loong part of the Oneness.

We will now enter chapter 8 ,Field of Perception.

Manifestations from Store Consciousness
Can be perceived directly in the mode of things in themselves,
as representations,or as mere images.
All are included in The eighteen elements of being.
In another post ,I will explain what are the eighteen elements
of being.

Loong son of the Universe

To all or none,

A few moments ago ,I had total proof of the workings of store
consciousness.

I am preparing to go to court for the prelemilary hearing of one
of the 2 persons that stabbed me in April /13.

Going to the Big city and to court ,I bought a suit ,shirt and tie.When I put the necktie around my neck I made the knot at lightning speed as if I made one yesterday .

I had not made a knot in over25 years.

So Store consciousness does not forget.

Loong
son of the Universe

But this is muscle memory, no? I guess that could be considered part of store consciousness, but I think it is really more about the imprinting of emotional patterns and perceptual frameworks...

Dear Lisa,
So if you think it is more about the imprinting of emotional patterns and per ceptual frameworks,from where do these two
Originate from?

Loong
Mahayana Buddhist

It comes from all of our experiences, in this life and others, although some make more of an impression than others. But I am not sure something like being able to tie a tie-knot or ride a bicycle after many years of not doing so is really the same thing, because that is more muscle memory - our body remembering how to do something. That is what I was responding to in your post. At least in the system that I learned (and there are more than one classification so perhaps the one I learned is different from TNH's), bodily memories such as this are a different category than storehouse consciousness.

In the system I learned, storehouse consciousness has more do with karmic patterns - default reactions, triggers, and ways of perceiving that are so subconscious it can take many years of practice to really see them operating within ourselves. A default of judgement for example, or fear.

Dear Lisa,

Everything comes from somewhere.Muscle memory has to be stored somewhere!Just wikied Muscle memory,here is what is written:
In the early stages of empirical research of motor memory Edward Thorndike, a leading pioneer in the study of motor memory, was among the first to acknowledge learning can occur without conscious awareness.[6] One of the earliest and most notable studies regarding the retention of motor skills was by Hill, Rejall, and Thorndike, who showed savings in relearning typing skills after a 25 year period with no practice.[2] Findings related to the retention of learned motor skills have been continuously replicated in studies, suggesting that through subsequent practice, motor learning is stored in the brain as memory. This is why performing skills such as riding a bike or driving a car are effortlessly and 'subconsciously' executed, even if someone had not performed these skills in a long period of time.[2].

As you can see ,the scientist refers to Subconsciouly.I see store concsiousness as the subconscious.
Since I started reading the book by TNH ,In my mind the term used ,store consciousness ,is his or Buddhism way of calling the subconscious.

With respect
loong

But doesn't TNH distinguish between the different manas, with the physical ones a different type than store consciousness? That is the model I am most used to.

Of course as you know, I don't really think it matters that much. I view all of the Buddhist psychological and philosophical models as means to an end. They are not about discovering 'the truth'. They are upaya, or skillful means - models for our mind to grasp that support practice. So if viewing muscle memory in this way has caused something to 'click' for you in terms of your own understanding about how your own mind works, then that is what matters.

Dear Teacher,

Thank you.

Loong

To all or none,
What ,I like about this text,it speaks of Anger.

All manifestations bear the marks
Of both the individual and collective.
The maturation of store consciousness functions in the same way
In its participation in the different stages and realms of being.

Only when the seeds hidden in the depths of our consciousness
Mature and manifest in our mind consciousness do we become aware of them.When our anger and sorrow are dormant,we cannot see them.But when we become angry,our face reddens,our voice rises,the seed of our anger has ripened and we notice it.The seeds of anger were there before we became angry ,but they were hidden in our store consciousness.If we had said "I am not angry ,"this would not have been correct.The seeds of anger were there even though they had not yet manifested.

Master THICH NHAT HANH

Loong,s comment:From what I have read ,and meditated,the seeds of anger,must come when Karma transfered at rebirth ,or from seeing ,hearing others get angry.!

Loong
Mahayana Buddhist.

I think both of these plant the seeds, but then our experiences growing up add to it. Neuroscientists now know that so much of our emotional patterning is 'written' into our brain in early childhood. So yes, the expressions of anger from those around us when we are children will plant more seeds, and join with any karmic seeds of anger we have brought in with us.

But then there is the issue of fears and safety too. From a psychological perspective, anger is a defensive reaction - usually fear is triggered first. And so we are more prone to angry reactions if we have a fundamental feeling of not being safe. This is why trauma survivors so often have issues with anger. The trauma creates a pattern of always feeling unsafe, of never quite feeling safe no matter what the circumstances, and then as soon as that feeling of being unsafe is triggered, the anger rises up as a defense - as a way of trying to 'fend off' whatever lack of safety we perceive. And if we did not feel safe as a child, these patterns can be very deeply written, into our neural pathways. It takes time to 'rewrite' them, but it can be done.

And so to work with anger I think it's really important to look at the underlying fears and insecurities...the anger is usually the second layer, the fears and insecurities are the root layer...

My favorite part about this TNH passage is this:



I like this because it shows how really it is a blessing when we are triggred, because it shows us what is still not free within us. It's easy to cut ourselves off from life, and I think some spiritual seekers do this, but then it's easy to get 'tricked' into feeling as if we are liberated, when in fact there are many things lying dormant within us.

So although it's hard, every time we are triggered is truly an opportunity for working with ourselves, and for growth.

Dear Teacher,

I am in total agreement,with you,completing with more data.

Always respectful
_/\_
Loong

To all or none,

Those that have read me on a regular basis,are aware that I have been having terror nitemares for years.
Ihave just awaken from or by one.
I fight ,with my mother ,in which I tell her ,no I yell at her ,crying saying that she killed me Inside,she killed me Inside.She never let me live when I was a child ,that is why I grew up all f...ed. up Inside.Still today at 67 years old ,the
source of all my anger ,got out in my dream ,the lack of love and affection during the time she was alive .As I write this ,I am slowly coming back to today ,to now .

My mother died ,I was 17 years old,and all those years after,
I pretended to myself that I forgave her for what she had done
to me.It seems I ,did not.

As I write this text ,I am trying to come back from the hellish
feeling ,I woke up in.I apologise for this post.Seeds of anger
can be very deeply hidden.The last few posts ,are what I beleive
uprooted this nitemare.When I was a child ,I hated my mother,I was so like her.Still am .
I thought that I had forgiven her,looks like .I did not

a 67 years old boy
Normand Joly

To all,

I am sorry for the post i have just written.
I wrote it for 2 reasons.One ,I had to write it to come out of the nitemare,Two to show everyone that there are still a lot of things hidden in our store consciousness,that we do not know about.I am still not feeling well after writing these 2 posts .
I don't want to go back to bed because the terror nitemare ,will continue.

loong

Hi Loong, I am so sorry that you had this difficult nightmare. Please be especially kind to yourself today. It takes time to decompress from a dream like that, because your psyche really went to the heart of the matter. Are you still going to therapy? If so, this is a wonderful dream to discuss there too.

Although it was difficult, I can't help but view this as a very good occurrence though, in your spiritual journey, because you are now dealing with the seeds of your fears and anger directly, instead of with just the effects or current triggers. It's like a wave has brought something to the surface of your mind, just like the ocean tides bring debris up to the beach. The good thing about that is that then we can clean the beach and get the debris out of the ocean, whereas if it isn't brought to the surface, it just stays sunk at the bottom of the ocean, wreaking havoc.

But you do need to be gentle with yourself. My own suggestion is not to try and force forgiveness. Instead focus on lovingkindness towards yourself. The rest will naturally occur as the processing continues.

Movement and healing nature are also great after a surfacing such as this. I am not sure what the weather is like there right now (probably cold!), but if there is any chance of a little walking in nature that would be great...

Dear Teacher,

Thank you for your kind words.

Loong

To all or none,
We can create paradise or hell in our own Minds.

All manifestations of phenomena arise from our STORE CONSCIOUSNESS.

Looking into the seed of Anger in us,we can see its individual and
its collective nature.Our Anger has roots in our experience with our parents,teachers,friends,and our own lives.

Loong's comment:Someone asked me :What about my freedom of choice,if I only respond from seeds in my store consciousness?
My answer is the following.Even if my store consciousness sends me
the result of the seeds living inside my store consciousness,
I always have my Mind Consciousness,to help me deal with the reaction ,it can even change the view of the seed in my store consciousness. Whatever you live,always remember that Mind,and
Mind consciousness, is always the master/creator.

Loong
Mahayana Buddhist.
This is all for today.

P.S.Always remember that I cannot write the whole book ,I have to choose a phrase that will in some way resume the whole text read.

To all or none,

People use drugs,liquid or solid,because they are in pain and want to run away from life.
Putting someone in prison like this in prison is not the way to solve the problem.There has to be love and understanding,some means of bringing him back into life,offering him joy,clarity,and purpose.

Loong,s comment:Being an addict myself ,you are never healed .from your addiction,whichever it is .May it be alcohol ,drugs,women,
Gambling,it is an every day fight,not to go back to the hell of addiction.
You may give love ,comprehension to an addict ,but if he has not hit button of his sufferings,these will do nothing to him/her.
On January 17 the 2014 ,I will be clean and sober for 37 years,
plus 36 years of smoking.I have learned to live in various groups for addicts,one day at the time.
Luckily for me ,Buddhism has thought me to live one moment at the time.
So if anyone out there is stuck with an addict or is an addict,
the only thing that will rid you of your addiction cravings ,is a spiritual experience,there exists no other way out,oh yes ,there is death,mentally affected for life or prison.
Loong
Addict,but clean and sober.

To all or none,
I believe this post ,to be ,for me,one of the most important text ,I ever read and copied for you.

Verses 28,29,30,describe the nature and characteristics of the five sense consciousness of eye,ear,nose,tongue,and body.We have already learned something about these five consciousnesses,in our discussion of the store consciousness, manas,and Mind consciousness
Is the base of manas,and manas,is the base of Mind consciousness
these five sense consciousnesses are based in the sixth consciousness, Mind Consciousness.
All eight consciousnesses are in this way connected and interdependent.

The sense from which these five consciousnesses arise are sometimes referred to : Gates:because all of the objects of our perception -
All dharmas-enter our consciousness through sensory contact with them.For this reason ,it is Important to Learn to Guard these gates into our consciousness, to choose,wisely what we allow to enter and become Seeds.
The way we do this is through MINDFULNESS
….….…...............................................................
Text by TNH

Loong the messenger.

Yes and when we think of mindfulness this way it has another whole level to it, doesn't it? And also this teaching brings a great appreciation for the body, as it is what allows us to have these sense perceptions - these gates. The body is our vehicle for learning and practicing dharma, it is not a hindrance to it. I think this is such an important realization, because many spiritual teachings seem to pit mind against body.

To all or none,
Important to remember that ,the 50 verses and Understanding our Mind ,is from the same book .Understanding our mind are more complete explanations of the 50 verses.

I often jump from one chapter to the other.
This one is called No Fear ,the 50 th chapter.

Buddhis texts speak of three kinds of gifts-material resources,sharing the Dharma with others,and NON-FEAR which is

THE GREATEST,gift.

TNH

Loong the messenger.☺

To all or none,

Forty -Six

We recognize internal knots and latent tendencies
So we can transform them.
When our habit energies dissipate,
transformation at the base is there.

Forty-Seven

The present moment
Contains past and future.
The secret transformation
Is in the way we handle this very moment.

.........WOW..……...........………........

Loong

To all or none,
From chapter 37.

When a seed gives rise to a formation,
it is the primary cause.
The subject of perception depends on the object of perception.
This is an object as cause.
There are four kinds of conditions that help things to manifest.All
Phenomena have a seed in store consciousness.This is the seed cause,the cause as condition.If you plant a kernel of corn in the soil,it will bring about a corn plant.The seed or kernel ,is the primary cause(hetu-pratyaya).If a sunflower seed falls into the soil,it is a primary cause of the sunflower plant that will grow there.The primary cause however,is not enough on its own to bring about the plant.Soil,air,sunshine,minerals,and water are also needed in order for the corn or sunflower to fully manifest.These
Are called supporting causes and are discussed in the next verse.
That verse being:36.

Loong
the messenger.😇

To all or none,
Today the text is taken from the chapter #33.Birth or Death.

If I show you my hand ,you cannot see my ability to do Calligraphy,
but that does not mean that this capacity does not exist.It is
Simply avijnapti,unmanifestated.If I were to take a piece of paper and a bruhh and make some movement with my hand,you would then see its capacity to do calligraphy.
It would then be vijnapti,manifested.
A manifestation means that both a subject of perception have manifested.
Birth and Death depend on conditions.
Production and disintegration depend on conditions.
Consciousness does not manifest only as the subject of perception ,the perceiver.Where there is manifestation of consciousness,it is
At the same time ,both aspects of perceptions perceiver and perceived.

Loongs comment: There cannot be sea if it is not ridden,there is grass when one walks on it.There is Life when there is death.

To all or none,

Been working for a while on the store cosciousness.
About 2 weeks ago, I had an incredible terror Nitemare,regarding my Mother.We never loved each other ,I beleive.
This morning again at 7.30 am woke up from another terrible nitemare,thistime about an associate I had over 10 years ago.
As I write this .I can barely type.My hands are shaking ,my heart is pounding.Another chunk of frustration,hate,came out this morning.Both times I had thought ,I had made in my mind peace with them .

I do not like to say beware, but please do not cover up in your store consciousness,the hate or frustration you might have ,
towards people.
I have been working on my agressivity for more than 2 years now.

I know there is some left ,but I thank Buddha and the Universe,
to have been directed towards this book.

I am becoming a better individual, it is a hard war.The seeds of hanger ,I beleive in some cases ,for a while are stronger than the seeds of love.

LOVE always prevails.

Thank you for reading my ranting and may you be at peace with yourself

loong
Mahayana Buddhist

To all or none,

This a semi serious post !

At what age and condition are we too old to shovel snow?

When we decide so!

loong
Not too banged up to shovel snow.:)

To all or none,

Seeds are produced and strengthened by formations.Formations are manifestations of seeds.Not only mental formations come from the seeds in our store consciousness, but physiological formations also are manifestations from seeds in our store consciousness.

Loong
Sharing😇

To all or none,

Subject of text is Mind Consciousnes,

As we have learned,manas is the base of mind consciousness,and
because the mode of perception of manas is always erronous,
much of what we perceive in our mind consciousness is also false.Because the nature of manas is obscured, our mind consciousness is often also covered over by delusion.(ignorance)
as well-direct or inferred.When our mind consciousness is able to perceive things DIRECTLY,
it is capable of touching the Realm of SUCHNESS.

TNH

loong
simple Messenger.

To all or none,
Taken from chapter #9.

We can create paradise or hell in our minds.

All manifestations of phenomena arise from our store consciousness.

Looking into the seed of anger(peace worst enemy) in us,we can see it individual and its collective nature.Our anger has roots in our experiences with our parents,teachers,friends,and our own lives.

Because all manifestation has both an individual and collective aspect,it would not be correct to say that a young man in prison bears the whole responsibility for his crime,he is the product of his family and I add absence of one,his schooling ,or lack of, and

This is from me : The INDIFFERENT society.

TNH
LOONG
MESSENGER AND PARTICIPANT.

Loong's comment:For those who are not regulars ,I was stabbed
Last April,in the back by a 19 to 20 year old young man stoned to death .He took me for an undercover cop or a narc.
This boy ,lives in one of the worst section of his town,his domain is about a 125 feet long,sure he can,t read
Nor write correctly,.There is no way ,I will be mad at that young boy and accomplice.No one ever took the time to love him.

I do

Loong
A simple Buddhist

I love the new picture of you!

Suchness - we never did bring over our private thread on that to here did we. Maybe we can add a bit on suchness now. Suchness is the direct perception of reality without any mental modifications. This arises when we have cut through all layers of obscuration - manas et al. We use the word 'arises' because it isn't something we 'attain' - it is simply there when we see through all of the other layers that usually capture our attention.

To Lisa my Teacher,
Funny yesterday did more research on Suchness.
Here is what I found.

As aresult ,the Mind can see unconditionned events in their Suchness.
To its own suchness ,unrestrained,uninfluenced by anything of any sort.

loong
buddhist.

To all or none

Store consciousness is the garden,mind consciousness the gardener.THE gardener has faith in the earth and entrusts to it
seeds he considers to be important.Store consciousness has the power to maintain,nourish ,and bring forth what we expect to have.In the practice of meditation ,we trust our store consciousness.We plant seeds in the soil of our store consciousness,and we water those seeds.We trust that one day the seeds will sprout and bring forth plants,flowers and fruit.
Thich Nhat Hanh

loong
Messenger and learner.

To all or none,

We are capable of reaching the field of things in themselves,the
world of Such ness,but because we think and discriminate we don't
usually perceive things as they truly are.The nature of our mind is obstructed(parikalpita).This means that we build a world full of illusion for ourselves because of the distorted way we perceive reality.Meditation is to look deeply in order to arrive at reality
First the reality of ourselves and then the reality of the world.To get to that reality,we have to let go of the images we create in
our consciousness and our notions of self and other,inside and
outside.Our practice is to correct this tendency to discriminate and think dualistically ,so that reality will have a chance to reveal itself.

Loong

To all or none,
Earlier,in the Buddha said section ,the Five remembrances were listed..
SO ,The practice of the Five Remembrances helps us face our fears
Directly and not see them as enemies.They are us.Our happiness,our suffering,our love,and our anger are all us.We treat all mental formations in the same way,in the spirit of non-duality.We do not turn ourselves into a battlefield ,with one side fighting the other.Some traditions teach just that-the right must do battle
to overcome the wrong.In Buddhism,we see both sides as ourselves
and we try to accept and look after all parts of ourselves,recognizing their interdependent nature.Our afflictions,our unwholesome mental formations,must be accepted before they can be transformed.The more we fight them,the stronger they become.The more we repress them,the more significant they become.

Great text.

Loong
Buddhist,part of the Oneness.

To all or none,

What can we do to transform our deep rooted seeds of suffering?
There are 3ways…I will have to resumate each one ,the texts being
very long.

1-The first way ,let these seeds lie in our store consciousness
Sow new seeds good ones,peace,joy,happiness.The Mind consciousness sends these new seeds to the store,so they interact and transform seeds of suffering .This is called indirect transformation.

2-Practice constant Mindfulness, it allows us to recognize the bad seeds as they arise.When they arise as a mental formation,in our Mind consciousness, we bathe them in the light of Mindfulness.
As the bad seeds are touched they weaken.
With Mindfulness ,we can recognize them and NOT BE AFRAID.

3-The third is for those who are pretty mindful only.
So in the 3rd way ,the way to deal with the seeds that have been with us since childhood to deliberately invite them up into our Mind consciousness,. When our Mindfulness is strong and
Stable, we do not have to wait for the seeds of suffering, to arise Unexpectedly.We know they are lying there in the basement of our store consciousness and we invite them up into our Mind Consciousness. Loong,s comment,:-) I would call this third one the Direct Approach.
Let the games( changes) begin.........

Loong
Ready as always.

To all or none,
Although Mind and objects of Mind are considered two different
Fields,in fact,they are One.Mind is the perceiver and objects
of Mind are The perceived.But perceiver and perceived can never be separated;they make one whole.Objects of mind do not arise independently of Mind_including the body,the feelings,and all other mental formations_are products of Mind.
Text by THICH NHAT HANH.

Loong
Simple messenger and learner.

To all or none,

Some of you might not have heard of supramondane powers.

I possess a few.On my way to my favorite restaurant ,where I do all
My research ,I saw myself sitting at a table I prefer.Really saw
Myself.As I am reading this I AM SITTING AT MY TABLE.In some
Other post ,I will explain what these powers are.

Loong
Buddhist

To all or none,

From the chapter" Ripening &Emancipation( seeds in store consciousness).

The ripening of phenomena happens in three ways.

1)RIPENING AT DIFFERENT TIMES.
Suppose we pick a custard apple,a bunch of bananas,and a jackfruit and put them away.The custard apple will ripen first,then the bananas,and finally the jackfruit.The seeds that our parents ,grandparents,and,friends sow and water in us always ripens sooner
Or later.There is no need to ask,"Why am I not transformed when I have studied so many teachings of the Buddha?Why do I still not
Feel peace and joy when I have practiced walking meditation so much?Each seed ripens in its own time.Our practice is simply to water the positive seeds in ourselves.We should have confidence that if we continue to water a certain seed,it will germinate and grow.
2)RIPENING OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES.
An unripe banana becomes a ripe banana-it can never become a ripe custard apple.
3)RIPENING AND CHANGING.

When something ripens,many of its aspects change completely.An unripe orange is green and sour.A ripe one is orange and sweet
Text by THICH NHAT HANH,

Loong the messenger and learner.

To all or none,

Looking at the present ,we see that if we continue to water and sow these wholesome seeds,our peace and joy will be even greater in the future.The way we are now is the sum of action A plus B .When
We look deeply at our mind,we see the level of happiness ,ease,and freedom in ourselves.Then we slowly shed light on what we have done in the past,the people who have helped us,the things we have put into practice that today brings us this sense of happiness,ease,freedom.And we also look into what actions-as-csause we have made that result in our being angry,sad,and jealous.To find the seeds from actions done in the past ,we need to look at the fruits in the present moment.
Text by THICH NHAT HANH

LOONG
Messenger and Buddhist

To all or none,
The three stages in the verse above refer to all nine levels of the
3 realms.the realm of desire,the four states of meditative concentration (dhyana)of the realm of form,and the four levels of
The realm of non-form.
The nine stages are
1)The Realm Of Desire
2)The Brahma Heaven
3)The Pure Heaven of Great Light.
4)The Everywhere Pure Heaven.
5)The Heaven of Non-Perception
6)The Realm of Limitless Space
7)The Realm of Limited Consciousness
8)The Realm of No Object
9)The Realm of No Perception.

Text by TNH

Loong
messenger.

To all or none,
All nine stages exist within us.
Maturation is the ripe fruit of our consciousness. At the time of maturation,our consciousness seeks to dwell in the stage that is closest to the sum of our actions.If we have an action in our store consciousness associated, with the addiction to cocaine,the force of attraction of like to like naturally leads us to associate with others who like and use drugs.Maturation of the fruit in consciousness, leads us toward one of the realms in a very deep way.
TNH

Loong
Ex-addict,Buddhist.
P.s.What I find is that the Master does not speak of the destruction these drugs bring.Ever seen 2needles in an arm?I did.

To all or none,

Even though store consciousness never ceases,this doesn't mean that
It is always the same.like a river it changes continually.store consciousness is the same .It is the river,and the seeds it contains are like the water that is changing all the time.
The term ,MENTAL FORMATIONS,is a very important term inBuddhism,and it is one we will encounter throughout this book.
A mental formation is the result of the manifestation of a seed in our store consciousness. The Manifestation Only school divides mental formations into fifty one categories,which l
have already listed in a prior post.To understand this verse,we need to know that there are five Universal mental formations
Contact
Attention
Feeling,
Perception/conceptualization
Volition.
These 5 mental formations are associated,which means they are engaged with each other .They are called universal because they are active in all eight consciousness es.



Loong

Buddhist,just that

To all or none,The store consciousness does not engage in thinking,comparing,or imagining.Its mode of Perception is always ..
Direct.Therefore ,the mode of the Five Universal mental formations as they function with the Store Consciousness is also always direct.In the eight Consciousness, contact is direct;mental attention is direct;and feeling,perception,and volition are also direct.But this is not necessarily true of the functioning of these five mental formations in the other consciousness es,because the nature and qualities of the other consciousness es differ.
The five universals are not separate from the mind-the Mind is the content of the Mind.

Loong sharing the text from the book: Understanding our Mind.

To all or none,

Text from the chapter called: The Three Dharma Seals.

Impermanence,Nonselfand Nirvana are called the Three Dharma Seals.
The Buddha speaks of them as the keys to open the door to Realty,to touch every phenomenon Deeply.Mindfulness is the energy we can use to be on touch with phenomena in the Realm of form.

Loong
Buddhist