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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!