Category: mindfulness

Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13g – January 18, 2019

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…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13f – January 17, 2019

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…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13e – January 16, 2019

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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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13d – January 16, 2019

Cultivating a strong mind focused on proper meditation and mindfulness is fundamental and should be a constant endeavor whether in good or poor health. These are the ways in which disease become a cause for producing the conditions for the three evil realms of Hell, Animality, and Hunger.  This is why we should not fall into the traps and take seriously the cautions of avoiding the harmful thoughts above. If however, you are aware that…

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