Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Discourse on The Human Mind (I): The Aggregates



4 components of mind:

1. Sankharas (thoughts' construction)
Why it is bad: It indicates that samsara still goes on.
How to cease: By the absence of consciousness it ceased by itself.

2. Vedana (feelings)
Why it is bad: It is selfish act, even when its neutral (Higher selfish).
How to cease: Through vedananupassana.

3. Sanna (apperception)
Why it is bad: It distorts the mind from seeing true reality.
How to cease: By the absense of feelings (including neutral one) it ceased by itself.

4. Vinnana (consciousness)
Why it is bad: It is the station of all suffering.
How to cease: By Dhammanupassana continous practice.

How body appear? Because of contact, there is feelings. Because feelings there is apperception. Because apperception there is thoughts' construction. Because thoughts' construction there is consciousness. Because of conciousness there are senses, because there are senses, comes a complete body.

How body will disappear? If there is no feelings, there is no apperception. If there is no thoughts' construction, there is no consciousness. If there is no consciousness, there is no mind for future rebirth.
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Beings from desire realms, like human or animals, are selfish.
Beings from material realms (gods) are high selfish.
Beings from nonmaterial realms (Gods) have noself awareness.

"Remove consciousness, monks."
- Buddha. "But pure consciousness is without self, Lord" - Monks. "Remove it, it will liberate you." - Buddha.
(alagaddupama sutta).

Bodhi (8fold noblepath) is higher than the consciousness of emptiness.

Human will work to be able to fulfill their desires. This is selfish.
Gods will destroy thousands of bad guys in preparing new civilization or religion. This is high selfish. (cula saccaka sutta).

The unselfish livelihood is the livelihood that not seek for alot of money but for the welfare of others, and this is hard or rarely being done by human. There are two points about right livelihood though:
1. One giving up wrong livelihood.
2. One earns one's living by a right form of livelihood.

If the livelihood is for the welfare of self or family then it is selfish too, since a family just the wider form of self, product of lust.
"Human having family so they can happy" - mara. "Human having family so they will sad." - Buddha.
(Dhaniya Sutta)

Human who do unselfish work, will reborn as a god. It always happen like that.

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