Tag: mind
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Demistifying the No Self
Senses are what enable us to experience life. The well-known five senses are sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste. And there is one more: the mind. These senses come into contact with their objects throughout our lives. For example, the sense of sight perceives colors, shapes, and other visible objects. However, we can only see…
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The Art of Observing The Mind
The (untrained) mind constantly wanders from time to time. If the mind is not focused on a single object, it tends to drift to something else. For example, when we are eating, we might think about work, vacations, and other things. It is not easy to keep our focus on eating consciously. By saying “consciously,”…
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Let go ego.
Remember the six senses? Senses enable us to experience life as human. These senses allow us to have feelings when they meet their objects. But can we control these feelings from arising? It might not be easy, but we can acknowledge feelings arise without any judgements. We can acknowledge pleasant contacts as pleasant, without any…
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Conquering The Mind.
In every second passed, our mind wandering the past and future, pleasant and unpleasant experiences, be it the unfinished work, planning for vacation, proud of something, recalling some memories with the deceased, or even some strategies to win a battle. Our mind is constantly changing from time to time, like an eternal smoke in the…
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Impermanence
Nothing in this universe is permanent unless the impermanence itself. Everything is constantly changing. Even mountain we saw ten minutes ago is never the same as it is now. The sun that looks the same long ago loses millions of tons of mass every single second. But why does our mind play tricks in the…
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There is no alien.
There is no alien in the universe. They are just another type of human from other planets whose evolve earlier or faster than us, that makes us wondering how their technology is so advanced and unthinkable. In my opinion, wherever on this universe, human-like sentient beings would have similar thinking pattern like us, such as…