I’ve brought up pain and I would like to diverge slightly away from Chih-I for a moment. Over the past several years doctors and nurses have been asking people to rate their pain on a scale, usually 1-10. Some people are not quite sure about how they are supposed to rate pain, it hurts and they want it to stop. Some fear if they say it is too low, then their pain will be ignored. …
Objects as Inconceivable I’m not sure many of us have considered illness or disease as inconceivable, especially since we are experiencing it and so we are deluded into thinking it is conceivable (conceptually understood). Yet there is an aspect to disease, dis-ease, that is also, perhaps for a lack of a better way of conceptualizing this, metaphysical in nature. Let’s see if I can clarify this. Currently the Veterans Administration is monitoring my health for…
The point here is that by understanding this by seeking to understand this dependent origination as we live with and through disease can be the cause for our entering the realm of pratyekabuddhahood. As I have been studying this and thinking deeply on the subject it is easy to see that these very same principles can be applied to any and every aspect of our lives. What condition or realm of the Ten Worlds…
The Mind holds the essence or essential nature of each organ the mind can distinguish between the kidney, the heart, the spleen and so forth. In that regard there is no essential substance to destruct and so it is indestructible. The four mental or four skandas maintain the essence of the four elements and five organs. The mind or skanda of consciousness maintains earth. “The mental skanda of conceptions maintains wind. The mental skanda of…
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