Mind

[Jitendra Hydonus]

  http://www.swamij.com/fourfunctionsmind.htm

Observing the mind and how it functions is a valuable tool in self - understanding and self realization. When we practice the presence we find all the various distractions to focusing the mind constructively. We can often see how we startfeeling disconnected through outside Iinfluences and inner apathy.


There are various ways of looking at the mind. This is an eastern approach and description.

 
Manas = sensory, processing mind, sense mind
Chitta = storage of impressions, feeling
Ahamkara=ego
Buddhi = knows, decides, judges, and discriminates, intellect

to be continued...input from others is appreciated.

[Swami Peevananda]

I made that dude really mad once. He told me never to contact him again!

 

No lie.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Is that you pet peeves?

Anyhow as I was saying; i spoke with Kingfisher last nite and we were discussing how the mind works. We get impresions thru the sense (manas) mind and then the ahamkara (ego) mind interprets what we have seen as something different. We then have feelings ( chitta ) we project on others and misinterpret the world around us. It is up to the Buddhi mind to discriminate and recognize the truth about what we project on others in our life.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I made that dude really mad once. He told me never to contact him again!

 

No lie.

A case of mistaken identity?

[Swami Peevananda]

huh? He just got mad at me. What are you talking about?

[Jitendra Hydonus]

huh? He just got mad at me. What are you talking about?

Madness comes from mind.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

From a spiritual point of you all the world's problems stem from one simple cause: the mind. So the solution becomes quite clear. Each one of us has a lot of work to do to clear the mind of prejudicial and divisive thoughts. Each one of us must work at emptying the mind of restless worldly thoughts to get a view of the Self to see things as they are not as we think they are.

Jitendra