MIND AND MENTAL FACTORS (LoRig)
Saturday, 5. November 2005, 08:55:54
Yesterday I joined a Teaching of my Teacher, ven. Lama Shenphen Rinpoche. Wow! The topic was: 51 mental factors (LoRig in Tibetan - the teaching about how mind actually works...). I was (and I am) surprised: Buddhism already knows for almost two milleniums, what a modern psychology dicovers today or in last hundred years (as far as I know and I've been told during my studies...).
It seems, that here in the West we do not want to accept those acient wisdom, we have a need to discover again and again, what is almost a common knowledge in some parts of the East. Some waste of resources...
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
George Berkeley
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Sir Karl Raymund Popper
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Groucho Marx
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
It seems, that here in the West we do not want to accept those acient wisdom, we have a need to discover again and again, what is almost a common knowledge in some parts of the East. Some waste of resources...
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
George Berkeley
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Sir Karl Raymund Popper
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Groucho Marx
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
WIDGETIZE