The human mind includes:
1/ Mind awareness/primary mind (6
of them: the first five of which have to do with/are connected with the 5
senses, such as visual, auditory..., direct perception; the last one is
mental conscience/awareness).
and
and
2/ Mental factors (79 or 51 ? of these, including attitudes, moods, emotions...).
The omniscient mind (Buddhahood) is a continuum with no beginning, no end, and the afflicted mind (conceptual, duality mind that is full of mental factors) exists in all beings.
The omniscient mind (Buddhahood) is a continuum with no beginning, no end, and the afflicted mind (conceptual, duality mind that is full of mental factors) exists in all beings.
The mind has many levels of consciousness: gross (conceptual, duality), subtle, and most subtle (non-conceptual; there are 8 or 4 of the most subtle mind). The luminosity/clear light mind (the most subtle): Experienced Buddhist meditators meditate and dwell on this mind at their physical/clinical death.
Physically, there are the inner energy channels, which may be connected with the energy of the subtle mind levels.
8 stages of the most subtle mind at near death:
1/ Mirage-like vision
2/ Pillowing smoke (like smoke coming from stacks of smoke)
3/ Spark-like vision (like fire-flies)
4/ Flames
5/ White Appearance (the person is like moonlight)
6/ Red Increase (like the sunset)
7/ Complete blackness near Attainment
8/ Luminosity or clear light (clarity/ reflection). This can be sustained (post-humous meditation) for two weeks or 21 days or more.
51 (? the number varies depending on the Buddhist schools/traditions) mental factors:
always present (intention, attention, recognition, contact, feeling), determining (engaging, aspiration, belief, mindfulness, concentration, wisdom),wholesome (no attachment, faith, shame, fear of blame, non-attached, positive effort, conscientiousness, no harm), afflictive (attachment, hatred, arrogance,ignorance, doubt, wrong view), secondary afflictive, changeable (sleep, neutral, regret, gross investigation, subtle investigation, depending on motivation)
Single-pointed meditation/Samatha: Awarenes and clarity
Suffering/Dukkha (Duhkha)
Three levels of suffering: evident suffering (acute
suffering, only this life), suffering of change (bigger horizon, many life
times), suffering of conditioned existence.
Reality varies from person to person. It is a construct of the (afflicted/duality/conceptual) mind. There is no such thing as an actual reality which exists outside the observer's mind. It is out of the interactions between the human mind and the environment over the course of evolution that reality is constructed. Your reality is different from mine. A human's world is different from a dog's. What we view as reality is just formations and designations or names and constructs. Nothing else.
Reality varies from person to person. It is a construct of the (afflicted/duality/conceptual) mind. There is no such thing as an actual reality which exists outside the observer's mind. It is out of the interactions between the human mind and the environment over the course of evolution that reality is constructed. Your reality is different from mine. A human's world is different from a dog's. What we view as reality is just formations and designations or names and constructs. Nothing else.
Sources:
Berry Kerzin http://altruismmedicine.org/about/founder-dr-barry-kerzin/
David Eagleman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eagleman
David Eagleman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eagleman
