Thursday, September 29, 2011

How to fix your mind?

If your car is broken you cannot fix it unless you know how it works. To know how it works you need to stop the car first, examine and then learn. Working with the mind is the similar to this. You cannot fix your mind (to get rid of greed, hatred and delusion) unless you know how it works. This knowledge or wisdom comes from insight meditation. Stopping the car can be compared breath meditation. This is how you still (concentration) your mind.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

How smell rules your life

The unsung sense: How smell rules your life - life - 19 September 2011 - New Scientist

..."What's more, it is becoming clear that the brain's olfactory centres are intimately linked to its limbic system, which is involved in emotion, fear and memory. That suggests a link between smell and the way we think..."

Here is an extract from my model...

"...Sense consciousness from eye, ear,nose, tongue, body end up in the mind as a mental object..."

"...There are also thoughts that can be retrieved from memory in mind consciousness back into the mind. Mind consciousness may leave imprints of your past memory as sort of "auto save copy" in memory of your computer. The past memory in turn can influence your feelings, perceptions and thoughts."

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Just as when a carpenter...

"Just as when a carpenter or carpenter's apprentice sees the marks of his fingers or thumb on the handle of his adze but does not know, 'Today my adze handle wore down this much, or yesterday it wore down that much, or the day before yesterday it wore down this much,' still he knows it is worn through when it is worn through. In the same way, when a monk dwells devoting himself to development*, he does not know, 'Today my Taints (effluents) wore down this much, or yesterday they wore down that much, or the day before yesterday they wore down this much,' still he knows they are worn through when they are worn through."

Nava Sutta: The Ship
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu

*This is called abandoning taints by developing (bhāvanā pahātabbā) ( Sabbasava sutta).

