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To all or none,
As promised I have done research on words that seemed cloudy.Later during the day.I shall give you what I have found.

loong
learner

To all or none,
As promised ,is what I have found up to now.
The 5universals,Very old expressions ,going back to the Greeks.
4Pages of text.

Mati of the Particulars:Developing a spiritual will that can be thought and named.
Next the 4major afflictions are,aging,disease,death,ascetism.
For those who do not know what Ascetism is,is putting oneself through incredible sufferings to attain Enlightenment.
Buddha,when he was still Siddhartha Gautama,was one for I believe 7 years,until he discovered the Middle Way,awakening and becoming
Buddha.
Now for the secondary afflictions 8,here is the list.
Attachment
Anger
Ignorance
Pride
Doubt
Wrong view
Conflicting emotions,
Obscuration concerning the Knowable.

Pheewww,I delivered what I could find.

Hope the explanations will shed a bit of light.
The remainder should be easier to comprehend.

Loong the learner

To all or none,
Twenty-one
As shadows follow form,manas always follows store.
It is a misguided attempt to survive,
Craving for continuation and blind satisfaction.

Twenty-two
When the first stage of the Bodhisattva is attained,
the obstacles of knowledge and afflictions are transformed.
At the tenth stage ,the yogi transforms the belief in a separate self,
And store consciousness IS released from manas.

Next post will be on the Mind consciousness.

Loong

To all,

With reservations:I believe manas to be a part of our mind trying to create "an I ",which does not exist in Buddhism.Only
NON-SELF",EXISTS.

LOONG.

To all,

With reservations:I believe manas to be a part of our mind trying to create "an I ",which does not exist in Buddhism.Only
NON-SELF",EXISTS.

LOONG.

To all,
Did some Wiki,on the tenth stage,of Bodhisattva's.

Each stage is an obtaining of knowledge.The tenth is full transformation of the Bodhisattva's.

Loong

To all
Today we start on Sense Consciousness.
Note before we start,we will be speaking about our human senses,plus,in Buddhism there is a sixth sense ,Mind,
.So Mind,ears,nose,touch,vision ,Taste.
Loong

To all or none,

Twenty Three
With manas as its base
And phenomena as its objects,
Mind consciousness manifests itself.
Its sphere of cognition is the broadest.

Twenty Four
Mind consciousness has three modes of perception.
It has access to the three fields of perception and is capable
Of having three natures .
All mental formations manifest in it -
universal,particular,wholesome,unwholesome,and indeterminate.

This will be enough for today.

Loong

To all or none,
I wanted to stop writing this thread ,however considering the number of visits ,I decided to go on.So today 25-26-27.Which will complete the section on Mind consciousness.

Twenty -Five
Mind consciousness is the root OF ALL ACTIONS AND SPEEÇH.
Its nature is to manifest mental fermentations,but its existence ,
is not continuous.
Mind consciousness gives rise to actions that lead to ripening.
It plays the role of the gardener,sowing all the seeds.

Twenty-Six

Mind consciousness is always functioning
except in states of non-perception(unconscious)Loong
The two attainments ,
Deep sleep ,fainting or coma (in which I disagree ,as far as coma is concerned ,in many cases people can still hear)thus some form is sense consciousness bringing in Mind Consciousness.

Twenty-Seven

Mind consciousness operates in five ways--
in cooperation with the five sense consciousnesses
and independent of them,
dispersed ,concentrated,and unstably.

Loong,s comment:I disagree on certain points because of other readings of the same Master.Also my comprehension of these texts,
and others ,show ,that Mind Consciousness is in function only when the person has conscience.If unconscious,take my open heart surgery
no feelings,were felt by my body .There is another case where a person will not feel any Mind Consciousness is when a meditator
Attains a certain depth or height bringing this person out of such.
This was mentioned by the Master himself in another text.
Always remember that Mind ,is the Creator of our lives,without Mind,we do not exist.

Loong
Mahayana Buddhist

Yes, or I think another way of putting it is that the manas might be described as the different strategies our mind employs to try and avoid the fundamental groundlessness of being. The 'survival' part of us does not want to face this groundlessness, it is terrified of it (some thinkers have said that the ego is our survival instinct gone wild...we will do anything to avoid facing this groundlessness.) And what Buddha says to us is that if we become comfortable with this groundlessness, and let go into it, we are part of the fluidity of all, and free of suffering...