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To all or none,
This book is from Master Thich Nhat Hanh,Titled Understanding our Mind.
The text that follows is taken from this book

"In Western logic the principle of Identity ,says that A is only an A .and not B.A flower can only be a flower.It cannot be a cloud.But this principle is based on the notion that things are permanent and
have a seperate self.The Buddhism begins by using the idea of nonself to help us look deeply in the nature of things.Nonself is an aspect of impermanence.Although impermanence is usually understood in terms of time and nonselfin terms of space, are one,and nonself and impermanence are also one .The only clear way to contemplate nonself is in the light of interbeing.Interbeing recognizes that A is B ,that this is also that.

Recall physicist DAVID BOMHS DESCRIPTION OF THE "EXPLICATE ORDER" AND the "implicate order".

In the explicate order we see things as existing outside and separate from all other things.In the implicate order ,we see that all things lie within other things.In the world of microscopic particles,one particle is made of all the other particles.Modern physicists are beginning to understand reality much in the way of the AVATAMSAKA SUTRA.

loong
learning and a d
simple buddhist.

To all or none
Taken from the book by MASTER THICH NHAT HANH-NDERSTANDING OUR MIND.

"Interbeing and interpenetration are ripening all the time.Ripening,or maturation,(vipaka)eans the combination of many elements that bring about a result.To make soup,we put different ingredients in a pot.apply heat and wait.After a while ,the combination of elements becomes something delicious that we can eat.Maturation takes place in every moment.The maturation f Store consciousness takes place in EVERY MOMENT.EVERY DAY WE ARE BORN AGAIN."

ANOTHER GREAT TEXT.

Loong
a very simple buddhist
N.B. I have read some of these sentences so many times and they still overpower me.

To all or none

The following text is from the book Understanding our mind,
by MASTER THICH NHAT HANH."
"store consciousness ripens in two ways-as our person and as our environment .In this moment we can touch the ripened fruit that is ourself,our friends ,and our world.Tomorrow ,that that ripened fruit will be diffferent- better or worse- depending on our individual and collective actions.In buddhism ,karma(action)takes 3 forms ; actions of body,speech,and mind.When our actions f body,speech,and mind are brought together,
they create the qualities of our happiness or suffering .We are
the author of our destiny.The quality of our being depends upon the quality of our prior actions.This is callled MATURATION."

loong
simple buddhist

To all or none

Some seeds take longer to ripen than others.Some maintain the same basic nature before and after ripening.Some are completely different before that seed ripens,we do not sing well and the melodies we compose are not very beautiful.As we practice more and more, the seed ripens and there is a change and the music we create
becomes re melodious.Ripening takes place in every moment.Our body,our consciousness,and the world are the matured fruits of this ripening.
Consciousness is as the heart of everything.Space,time,and the four great elements are all displays of consciousnous.All the nature of interbeing; lf we look deeply into one,we find the other five.Looking into place ,we see time and the other elements as well.

We have the power to create and arrive at a new maturation when we know how to transform the seeds in our store consciousness.We may think that a new maturation takes place only after we release
this body ,this actual manifestation of our eight consciousnesses.
But looking deeply ,we see that maturation takes place in every moment . We have the capacity to renew ourselves in every moment.

This is the last text, written n consequential order.The next
posts will be at random.

loong
simple buddhist.

To all or none,

TRUE MIND
"
Independant manifestatios has two aspects,deluded by Mind and True
MIND.
Deluded Mind is imagenary construction.
TRUE MIND is fulfilled Mind.:

If we go in Tibetan buddhism ,the deluded mind would be called SEM
and TRUE MIND-RIGPA.

The top part of the text between brackets is Mahayana Lineage vocabulary m the book by TNH Understandig our MIND

to all or none,
The text is from UNDERSTANDING YOUR MIND by TNH.

The texts are selected at random from now on.However yesterday we saw TRUE_MIND .So today ill shed light on what True Mind means as per THICH NHAT HANH'S version,of the Mahayana Lineage.

"INTERDEPENDENT MANIFESTATIONS-The manisestation of all phenomena -should be viewed as resulting from both deluded Mind and true Mind.When our Mind is deluded it is overloaded with ignorance,illusion.anger and fear.True Mind is consciousness that
has been transformed and has the capacity of touching ultimate reality.A manifestation based on deluded Mind will bring suffering
and confusion.When we see people who suffer a lot of hatred ,pain and sorrow in their daily lives this is a manifestation based on deluded collective consciousness.A group of people living happily
together smiling loving and supportive of one and other,is a manifestation of a true collective consciousness.They know how to look at and touch things in the light of interbeing and interdependence."

Beautiful text is it not.If humanity instead of living on or with MARA would create a toghetherness based on loving kindness and compassion, peace would reign on this planet marred with deluted consciousness.

loong
simple buddhist.
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Oh Loong,

The mind is a place (no pun intended) I could get lost in and enjoy every step of the way.

Everything, mind included, has the capacity of interchangeables, both negative and/or positive.

The capabilities are endless within each. Imagine a collective of positive waves - spiraling energies, passing through all those whom happen to either be in despair or simply on the wrong side of the track so to speak.

I'm not certain how exactly it works and unfortunately our world is vicariously unbalanced, however there is this network you speak of with both enlightenment and healing growing by the sec. together, as you've suggested. Thank you

To Elleise,

I thank you,for that beautiful comment.The onlyway to change the deluted Minds of others is by living our lives as examples of what
Mindfulness can bring.
In A.A. they say :do not preach APPEALinstead in your way of speaking,LISTENING,acting,this way one will surely bring to the spiritual side the deluted ones.

With respect
Loong
simple buddhist

Thanks Loong for well, the "thank-you." Each one received makes that of the stepping stones from which we walk our paths.

I implore those who happen to come across these words to BE, not just mindful and present (though THOSE, we're in dire-straights of needing however) but unafraid to BE what it is in your Soul, your heart, that calling, which when ignored can and quite often DOES bring about a dilution of sorts; that restlessness, anger, even discord in one's life.

The lumps and bumps, chaos, etc. they're merely the Universe's way of doing things, bringing us back around to the initiative...What it is, our TRUE-BEING was sent here to do for the collective we most certainly happen to be

To all or none

True Mind,a chapter of the bookby THICH NHAT HANH-UNDERSTANDING OUR MIND." IN THE LAST FEW POSTS I MORE RANDOMLY CHOSE MY TEXT.

"There is also a world conditioned by true Mind>This world has sunlidht ,bird songs,the wind in the pine trees-just as in the world we see around us-but it does not have being and non-being ,coming and going ,same and different,birth and death.The world that has true mind as its seed cause is the world of the AVATAMSAKA SUTRA,where the one encompasses the all, where there can be no fear.True mind is the means for understanding birthlessness and deathlessness."

loong
simple buddhist