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My last article of the year is on The Heart Sutra one of the most popular and well-known Buddhist scriptures. This small sutra encapsulates the Buddhist path, and how 'mindfulness' and 'heartfulness' are one and the same. A great way to start your year!


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Thank you, THANK YOU Lisa for this article. It has clarified something that has been on my mind for some time, and the timing is right - I now understand!

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Thank you onealone, I can't think of a better way to start the New Year for either of us:-)


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Lisa, great article!

And it makes SOOO much sense! I know that once upon a time, mankind did believe that the heart was the thinking faculty of the body... and even sciences, like Heartmath, are proving that the Heart has its own intelligence.

Very cool!


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Thank you so much for the article. It is so true that we can sometimes cling to things we feel are important, when really they are transient.


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To Lisa, Just read a translation of the Heart Sutra.Just a translation of the text.Not what is all around it.Just the text .Nowhere is it mentionned about the Heart and mind. This is the url of the text of the sutra. http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/heartsutra.html Please if possible comment the text of the Heart Sutra. Thanking you in advance A simple buddhist named loong

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To Deanna Spirit Dreams. Dear Deanna ,this is the first time that I address myself to you. So you beleive Buddhist wise that the heart has it's own intelligence. As far as I know ,heart is an organ .Mine has been operated on 5 times ,last time ,2 months ago.Can you,please describe ,where in the heart,the intelligence resides.I have seen my heart 10 times ,could not see any part that had intelligence in it.I hope I am not too harsh on you,just want to hear your side of the aforementionned subject. With Loving Kindness a simple buddhist named loong

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To Lisa low carb, Dear Lisa ,you are so right ,more than transient ,everything is impermanent ,illusion only. A simple buddhist named loong

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Hi looong,

I am using 'heart' here as it is used in the title of the 'heart' sutra, or the more full English translation 'Heart of the Perfection of Transcendent Wisdom.' Many Westerners read the title and are expecting the sutra to be about metta or lovingkindess practice, when in fact it is about mindfulness and insight, as I discuss in the article that started this thread. So the title of this forum post 'Heart and Mind are the same' was just a way of connecting the title of the sutra to the contents of the sutra.

I am not sure exactly what your questions are to me and Deanna, but I think perhaps it has to do with the way the word 'heart' is sometimes used in English to refer to compassion or metta in general, as opposed to the organ the heart. In addition Deanna is referring to scientific studies done by an organization called Heartmath, which has shown the amazing ways the heart responds to various situations and stimuli on an energetic level.

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To Lisa, You wrote:I am not sure exactly what your questions are to me and Deanna, but I think perhaps it has to do with the way the word 'heart' is sometimes used in English to refer to compassion or metta in general, as opposed to the organ the heart. In addition Deanna is referring to scientific studies done by an organization called Heartmath, which has shown the amazing ways the heart responds to various situations and stimuli on an energetic level. loong's comment: The word heart outside of Buddhism ,I know about.That is why I asked if Deanna if she was using heart in the bhuddist way.In Buddhism ,a heart is an organ ,nothing more nothing less.Being human I know that heart responds to situations and stimuli but it ,the hearth does not have an intelligence,it just responds like any human organism.That is what I meant. With respect _/\_ a simple buddhist named loong

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