How is our mind?We can imagine it as the sun in the sky.
One day is sunny, there are not clouds and our sun is shining brightly to everything and everybody. All creation is happy and so many beings are basking in it's rays.
Other day is sunny too, but there are clouds and they come and go.
When the weather is not good, all the sky is covered with dark clouds and everybody looks for a warm place to hide himself from the storm.
But we know, it's not forever. The clouds will go away and the sun will shine as before.
In the same way our mind, so as it was given to us by the nature or God or what you like, is something shiny and good for everybody. Remember the mind of the kids. With time clouds cover and cover it. What are those clouds? Those blots?
pride
attachment
anger
detestation
abhorrence
ecc ecc
Why are they clouds, blots? Because they are not permanent. They come and go. But we remain, our mind remains. So our mind is not the same with the clouds.
Example:
You raise in the morning with sunny spirits. But than you hear somebody speaking bad about you and you feel very bad. But later you forget about it and turn to be sunny as before
So we can say that the clouds come only when there are conditions for them. Clouds depend from conditions.
"Moral":
Because the clouds are something that comes and goes, we can do in the way they go and even don't come more.
We can liberate our mind from all negative emotions, thoughts and feelings.
And become sunny forever.
Summary of the Buddhist Teaching about the mind.
Different sources: texts, sutras, comments ecc.
Read second part Clouds that cover our mind
I do find some clouds beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThat is why we are in samsara till today: because we like it.
ReplyDeleteYes liudmila our mind is cloud but it depends howmuch time it will take to dissapeare!!! However I love your philosophical writings
ReplyDeleteThe time to disappear is the time we take to work with it. More you work, less time remains. I think so.
ReplyDelete;))) Did you noticed that I use some thoughts you gave me once? I loved your thought that we have responsability for God for the use we make from His gift. :)))
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. The God wants we near him. He helps us to make the right choise, gives us the guide. The problem is we don't know what answer leads us in that direction. And don't hear him normally and if we hear, don't understand him...
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I wanted to say:there is not ONE correct answer. The answers are ALL correct. The difference is WHERE this or that answer conducts us. In sense in samsara or in nirvana or to Enlightenment.
I think so. Maybe I'm not right.
I read your post and think the main idea is the same in both Teachings.
ReplyDeleteThere is the breath of God (sun, I wrote about; "essence of Tathagata", nature of Buddha) and there is the dark material from what are made humans (clouds in my post; poisons and afflictions in buddhist phylosophy).
And there is a Knowledge that humans have to understand, to reach.
Why they have to reach this understanding?
To carry out the task of their existance.
Because the God, knowing something, created this being as a tool to resolve a problem that knows only he.
I would say, after I read your post, to illuminate the dark material from what they were created.
About the question maybe you will write more later because I do not find much about it.