Wisdom of the Elements

The earth the solid element,through weight and texture comprehend. While flowing, depth and clearness,show you water’s nearness. Heat, or radiance, or a light,shows you a fire is alight. And air, the subtlest elementhelps you change to comprehend From Greece, to Native America, from Egypt to India, the idea of four fundamental elements which form the…

Can Dhamma be heresy?

If I'd be asked: "Dost thou believe in god, a creator?",I'd say to him: For you it might be odd, I'm not a traitor,but with surety I can only say:A god that dost create, be he imagined or be he real,if his creations skill display,I not abhor, nor will I reel;And if his creations reach…

The Fool and the Wise

The fool and the wise often are equally simple natured beings. The main difference therein is, that the fool unconsciously yields to laws which he neither perceives, nor understands. While the wise consciously cooperates with laws he perceives, because he knows, not cooperating with them produces suffering. But what are the laws the wise understands,…

Unwholesome Emotion

If we want to learn how to transcend unwholesome states of mind, we need to make a start in understanding those little understood inner forces that we experience as undesirable emotions. It is only through true understanding, that we may transcend the ignorance which is at the root of all unwholesome emotions. Here only two…

Dreams, Hallucinations and Thoughts below the Threshold of Consciousness

These are the mental activities of Life left to itself They constitute the first stirrings of a latent mind seeking manifestation. Their essential characteristic is that mental activity and thought are entirely governed by sensation and bodily processes. Yet, analogous to the generation of concepts through mental processing, during these processes, there happens a synthesis…

The Mental process in Human Development

For gaining a clearer understanding about the mental process, we might consider about it in the light of human development and its relation to the higher faculties. Example: A person receives an impression from outside...A strong person oppresses a weaker one... First level of development...The third person receives the impression, and after that his mind…

Intuition

Based on knowledge, there may arise a certain faculty, that can perceive a myriad things at one singular glance. This faculty may be termed intuition. It is, when a mind possessed of knowledge, becomes aware of a certain thing, that there becomes possible a synchronising (a-tuning) of the mind with its object of perception. This…

The Problem of Good and Evil

Good begets good, bad begets bad. Most people, at the very least have heard such saying. Yet, although there may be situations in life where it is quite obvious what is good and what is bad, many times in life we may come across situations in which it is difficult to decide which road or…

Transformation of Emotions

4 Using the Mind

Using your mind Just repeating something that was said before,... are you using your mind?...If you make a calculator that only shows the input as output..who would buy it? ...Yet, even the most simple calculator seem to have a more functional mind than many a man of the crowd... Reading a book....are you really using…