Seeds of Consciousness

Thay mentioned the followings regarding the seeds of mental formations.

"According to the Buddha, the birth of a human being is not a beginning but a continuation, and when we’re born, all the different kinds of seeds—seeds of goodness, of cruelty, of awakening—are already inside us. Whether the goodness or cruelty in us is revealed depends on what seeds we cultivate, our actions, and our way of life." (Excerpted from Thich Nhat Hanh’s Introduction to “Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships”)
(Cf.) http://www.lionsroar.com/growing-together/

"His anger will be stored in the depth of his consciousness as what we call an "internal knot". This knot is what becomes a grudge or feeling of resentment. It's like having a cold. When we become sick, if we do not take the right medicine or let someone give us a massage, our cold may go deeply into our body and becomes much more difficult to cure. When our anger goes deeply into our consciousness, it creates an internal knot that might cause us to have agressive gestures or unpleasant behaviour without our knowing it." (Excerpted from Thich Nhat Hanh’s 'Joyfully Together')

(My Question)
Why and how does this happen? Have Thay explained it before?

(My Commentary)
I remember Thay said that we carry our ancestor's burdens and gifts. I can understand that we are the continuation of our ancestors (not only humans but also animals, plants and minerals), but I want to know why and how this continuation happens. Seeds of consciousness are the key. However, I don't know if Thay has mentioned the mechanism of this continuation. I guess Thay may not have mentioned that mechanism because it has not been proved scientifically. Thay has been very careful to mention about past karma of our previous manifestations because he doesn't want to teach deluded Buddhism. So, when that mechanism (why and how the seeds are sown in store consciousness) and the relation between body and consciousness (every particle enfolds into consciousness, and consciousness unfolds into body) is proved scientifically, Thay may begin to talk about it.

(Cf.) http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/seeds-of-consciousness
http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/seeds-in-subconscious
http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/spiritual-ancestors

Thích Nhất Hạnh

What is life?

Watch the following Jeremy England's video.

The following excerpts from the video are very interesting because they are very similar to Buddhist words.

Quote:  * (): Buddhist words
(5:46-5:52)
So, physics doesn't make any distinctions between the particles that are in the whale and the particles in the water around it.
(The Diamond Sutra recommends that we remove the four notions of self, man/human, living beings, and lifespan to free ourselves.)

(16:47)
All living things are made of matter. 
(We are made of non-we elements, namely the whole cosmos such as water, air, minerals and sunshine.)

All living things need to eat. 
(Nothing can survive without food.)

All living things give off heat. 
(The nature of reality, namely of matter and energy, is the nature of no birth and no death.)

All living things can't grow backwards. 
(Things are changing. Impermanence)
:Unquote

(My commentary)
☆ Irrespective of whether we are humans, animals, plants or minerals, we are all the same as the whole cosmos, or the wholeness.
☆ Jeremy England has been studying the truth in the phenomenal world (matter). If he combines the truth in the noumenal world (consciousness) through the theory of the implicate order and the explicate order in quantum physics with his theory, he may be able to prove the no-birth and no-death nature of consciousness scientifically. (the no-birth and no-death nature of matter has been already proved scientifically by the law of conservation of energy and mass.)  All he needs to do is to look more deeply into his theory in order to touch the truth in the noumenal world.

(Cf.) http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2015/09/wholeness-coherent-approach-to-reality.html
http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2015/10/heart-sutra-and-quantum-physics.html

Jeremy England

Entropy

The followings are excerpts from "A New Physics Theory of Life". 
(Refer to: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/)

Quote:
"Jeremy England argues that under certain conditions, matter will spontaneously self-organize. This tendency could account for the internal order of living things and of many inanimate structures as well. “Snowflakes, sand dunes and turbulent vortices all have in common that they are strikingly patterned structures that emerge in many-particle systems driven by some dissipative process,” he said. Condensation, wind and viscous drag are the relevant processes in these particular cases."

"He is currently running computer simulations to test his theory that systems of particles adapt their structures to become better at dissipating energy. The next step will be to run experiments on living systems."
:Unquote

(My commentary)
England said, "under certain conditions, matter will spontaneously self-organize." Does this mean that matter, or each particle has mind, or the capacity to make choices? Freeman John Dyson said, "Atoms and humans and God may have minds that differ in degree but not in kind. --- Atoms in the laboratory are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom." I feel that England and Dyson are saying the same thing.
(Refer to: http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2015/09/atoms-may-have-minds.html)

(Cf.: WHAT IS LIFE? by ERWIN SCHRODINGER in 1943) 
http://whatislife.stanford.edu/LoCo_files/What-is-Life.pdf

Jeremy England

Wounded inner child (2)

Watch the video below from 1:07:37 to 1:15:55.

And as a trend of a baby, you felt that you can't do anything for yourself. You have arms and feet but you can not use them. You need someone to take care of you. You are defenseless. You are vulnerable, fragile. You can not do anything for yourself. You need someone to do it for you. So, the original fear goes together with the original desire, the desire to survive. The fear of being left alone. And that original fear and that original desire survive until now, even if we have been grown up as an adult. That original fear, that original desire is still there. And that is why we have to talk to the child within.

"Darling, you should know that we have grown up now as an adult. We are no longer without the defense like in the past. We can very well defend ourselves. Come with me and be in the present moment. Don't let the past imprison us like that." You have to transmit that wisdom to the child inside. You have to talk to her. You have to talk to him.

Because the films of the past are projected non-stop in store consciousness. And every time the film is projected, all emotion, all suffering is revived. Suppose we are in a cinema, a movie. There is a film projected up here and down there, looking at the film. You believe this is a true story. And you shed a real tear. And you suffered of the strong emotion down there. I see you crying. The suffering is real. The tear is real. But the story is not real. It's only a film.

If I invite you to come up with me and we come close to the screen and we touch, we don't see anybody. It's only the light flickering. We can not talk to the people. We can't invite some people to have a tea with us. Because this is a fictive story. Something unreal can create a real suffering, a real depression. Yet many of us still suffer because of a child that is still caught down there in store consciousness. That is why it's very important that we go home to ourselves and talk to the child and take her hand and bring her to the present moment and to enjoy life in the here and the now. Very important. That takes sound trainings.

In the past, maybe someone slapped on your face. And that image of that moment is still stored in store consciousness. And every time the image is projected, we are slapped again and again and again. Why do we have to suffer like that? Mindfulness will tell us that this is only in the past and this is only a fictive picture. It's not reality. Now we have grown up. We have means to protect ourselves. We don't have to suffer like that. So, talking to the wounded child within is very important. Inviting him,  inviting her to come out with you and to play in the ground of the present moment. And it takes some practice in order to get used to do it. 
(If we look deeply into our suffering with concentration, we can encounter our wounded inner child and understand the root cause of our suffering. Then we can heal our wounded inner child and release our separate self, or ego who was made up by our wounded inner child for self-protection. This is the self-transformation from ego to non-separate self, or true self. For details, please refer to the book below.)

(end)

(Notes) The descriptions in the parenthesis are my commentaries.

(Cf.) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LA87R7A

Wounded inner child (1)

The following Thay's talk is very deep.

You have to go home and to rescue the wounded child. Because the wounded child is still caught in the memory of the past. Because the films are still being projected. And you have the tendency to go back and get imprisoned in the past. We know in principle, that the past is already gone but the image of the past is still stored in the store consciousness. And that is why from time to time, when you sleep, you go back to it and you experience again the suffering in the past. And not only during the night but during the day, you tend to go home to the past and suffer the same kind of suffering you have suffered. (The wounded child means inner child in subconscious.)

In principle, we know that the past is no longer there. That's only a film, a picture of the past. But every time the film is projected, we suffer again.  That is why it is very important to learn how to get out of the past, how to come out to the present moment. And you have to come home to store (consciousness?) and rescue the child and bring her or bring him to the present moment. Very important.

You could talk to him or her, "Dear one, I know you are still there alive. You don't have to suffer anymore because you have grown up. I am talking to you as your adult self. I know that the past has already gone. And you should also know that. We have grown up into adults. We are no longer without a defense. We are grownups and we do have a capacity to protect ourselves. We can very well protect ourselves and even call the police."

First when you were born as a child, your fear was born at the same time with you. During the nine months in the womb of our mother, we felt safe. We didn't have to do anything. It was so comfortable. But when we were born, the situation changed drastically. They cut down umbilical cord. And now you have to learn how to breathe for yourself. There was some liquid in your lungs. You had to get that liquid out in order to breathe, to make your first in-breath. So, it's a very dangerous moment. You survive or not depends on that moment. So, you were fearful. Your original fear. And you want to survive. (Our fear might have been born because we were not accepted by our parents unconditionally in babyhood. We need to look deeply into our fear and to understand the root cause to transform it to compassion and peace.)

(to be continued)

(Notes) The descriptions in the parenthesis are my commentaries.

(Cf.) http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/human-life-39415010

Wholeness: A Coherent Approach to Reality

Watch the following video. What David Bohm says is exactly the same as what Buddha said by emptiness.

Wholeness: A Coherent Approach to Reality – David Bohm

“I think the difficulty is this fragmentation.. All thought is broken up into bits. Like this nation, this country, this industry, this profession and so on… And they can’t meet. That comes about because thought has developed traditionally in a way such that it claims not to be effecting anything but just telling you the way things are. Therefore, people cannot see that they are creating a problem and then apparently trying to solve it… Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us.”

The following is a transcript for the video “Wholeness & Fragmentation,” a short excerpt from David Bohm’s presentation in Amsterdam, in 1990, as featured in the documentary Art Meets Science & Spirituality in a Changing Economy.

“We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the whole, and we act toward the whole. Whatever we have taken in determines basically what we are.

I think the difficulty is this fragmentation, first of all. Everybody, all thought is broken up into bits. Like this nation, this country, this industry, this profession and so on… And they can’t meet. It’s extremely hard to break into that.

But that comes about primarily because thought has developed traditionally in a way such that it claims not to be effecting anything but just telling you “the way things are.” Therefore, people cannot see that they are creating a problem and then apparently trying to solve it.

Let’s take a problem like pollution, or the ecology. See, the ecology in itself is not a problem. It works perfectly well by itself. Its due to us, right? It’s a problem because we are thinking in certain ways by breaking it up and each person is doing his own thing.

Therefore the ecological problem is due to thought, right? But thought thinks it’s a problem out there and I must solve it. That doesn’t make sense because simultaneously thought is doing all the things which make the problem and then tries to do another set of activities to try and overcome it. See, it doesn’t stop doing the things which are making the ecological problem, or the national problem, or whatever the problem is.

The earth is one household really, but we are not treating it that way, so that’s the first step in economics is to say the earth is one household and all that depends on, its all one you see…

Now, the implicate order would help us to see that, to see everything enfolds, everybody, not merely depends on everybody, but actually everybody is everybody in a deeper sense. See, we are the earth because all our substance comes from the earth and goes back. I mean, its wrong to say its an environment, just surrounding us. That would be like the brain regarding the stomache as part of its environment.

The word com-passion is to feel together, and if people have the same feeling together, they are responsible for each other, then you have compassion.

I don’t think that there is such a thing as original sin. I think it has developed more and more with the growth of our society. There is no evidence that people in a hunter/gatherer society were all that competitive. But the more you made society big and you had organization, and you had to get to the top, and people on the bottom would suffer. There was a drive to compete, naturally. It’s not a weakness, it’s a mistake.

So the first thing we have to do, in the long run, is to look at our way of thinking, which has developed over so many thousands of years. I don’t think it was the original way of thinking of the human race at all, but for many complex reasons it came about.

Now, that means that people have to participate, to make a cooperative effort, to have a dialogue, a real dialogue, in which we will not merely exchange opinions, but actually listen deeply to the views of other people, without resistance.

And we cannot do this if we hold to our own opinion and resist the other. It doesn’t mean we should accept the other, but we have to be able to look at all the opinions and suspend it, as it were, in front of us, without carrying them out, without supressing them.

Wholeness is an attitude or an approach, but can be given a scientific realization, because of relativity and quantum theory, we can if we wish look on the world as a whole.

Consciousness is really our most immediate experience of this implicate order. You may think of nets of consciousness that are finer and finer, or we may think of capturing finer and finer aspects of the implicate order. I think there is an intelligence that is implicit there, a kind of intelligence unfolds. The source of intelligence is not necessarily in the brain, you see, but much more enfolded into the whole. Now, the question of what you want to call it God, that depends on what you mean by the word, you see. Because taking it as a personal God might restrict it, in some way.

I think science has begun to replace religion as the major source of the world view, and therefore, if science takes a fragmentary world view it will have a profound effect on consciousness.

Science is whatever people make of it, science has changed over the ages and it is different now from a few hundred years ago, and it could be different again. There is no intrinsic reason why science must necessarily be about measurement. That is another historical development that has come about over the last few centuries. It is entirely contingent and not absolutely necessary.

Einstein eventually moved toward a view of field theory where everything was one field, all fields merging, so it was a step toward wholeness. It was a limited step, but still it was the beginning.

Wholeness is not a place you can get to, wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. It’s a way. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us.

But Nature has been tremendously affected by our way of thinking on the earth. Nature is now being destroyed. There is very little left on the earth which wasn’t affected by how we were thinking.

[If we have coherence] we will produce the results we intend rather than the results we don’t intend. That’s the first big change. Then we will be more orderly, harmonious, we will be happier. I think we can put all that in there. But the major source of unhappiness [on our planet] is that we are incoherent and therefore are producing results that we don’t really want, and then trying to overcome them while we keep on producing them.”

David Bohm; Amsterdam, 1990

Art Meets Science & Spirituality in a Changing Economy Conference

“David Joseph Bohm (1917 – 1992) was an American theoretical physicist who contributed innovative and unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, philosophy of mind, and neuropsychology. He is considered to be one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century.” (wikipedia)

(Cf.) https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/wholeness-a-coherent-approach-to-reality-david-bohm/

David Bohm

Atoms may have minds.

Watch the following video.

The followings are the exerpt from: 
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson

Quote:

My personal theology is described in the Gifford lectures that I gave at Aberdeen in Scotland in 1985, published under the title, Infinite In All Directions. Here is a brief summary of my thinking. The universe shows evidence of the operations of mind on three levels. The first level is elementary physical processes, as we see them when we study atoms in the laboratory. The second level is our direct human experience of our own consciousness. The third level is the universe as a whole.

Atoms in the laboratory are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom.

The universe as a whole is also weird, with laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension. God may be either a world-soul or a collection of world-souls.

So I am thinking that atoms and humans and God may have minds that differ in degree but not in kind. We stand, in a manner of speaking, midway between the unpredictability of atoms and the unpredictability of God. Atoms are small pieces of our mental apparatus, and we are small pieces of God's mental apparatus. Our minds may receive inputs equally from atoms and from God. This view of our place in the cosmos may not be true, but it is compatible with the active nature of atoms as revealed in the experiments of modern physics. I don't say that this personal theology is supported or proved by scientific evidence. I only say that it is consistent with scientific evidence. 

: Unquote

Freeman John Dyson, theoretical physicist and mathematician, seems to think that atoms and humans and God may have minds that differ in degree but not in kind. 【 Atoms ＜ Humans ＜ God (the universe as a whole) 】 I feel his awareness is wonderful. The important point is that atoms may have minds (the capacity to make choices). That's because his insight is consistent with Buddha's teaching. That is that Buddha nature (God) is contained within the elements (water, air, earth, sunshine), namely every particle and energy, of everything including humans. 

So, there may be Divine nature (Buddha nature) within the mind (consciousness) of atoms. Freeman's view is not proved by scientific evidence (the active nature of atoms as revealed in the experiments of modern physics, or the capacity to make choices), but it seems to be consistent with scientific evidence. Therefore, it can be regarded as a very influential clue. But if there is Divine nature (Buddha nature) within the mind (consciousness) of atoms, we may need to fine‐tune Freeman's "three levels of minds" as follows: 【Implicate order】 Subconscious (Seeds of mental formations including Divine nature, or Buddha nature) ≦ Consciousness (mind: mental formations such as feelings and perceptions) ≦ Elementary particle or Energy (E = mc ²) ≦ Humans, animals, plants, minerals ≦ Whole cosmos (water, air, earth, heat and light) 【Explicate order】 

And if the above is proved by scientific evidence in the future, the next theme will be to elucidate the true nature of consciousness. In other words, the first point is to prove scientifically that karma (actions) till the past life and in this life has been imprinted on consciousness contained within every particle and energy. Or it is to prove scientifically that karma has been preserved as seeds of mental formations in subconscious. The second point is to prove scientifically that every particle and energy of the disintegrated body is enfolding subconscious and will reincarnate physically and mentally.

(Cf.) http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/spiritual-ancestors

Freeman John Dyson, theoretical physicist and mathematician

Silly Humans

My answer to the question of "Can animals, plants, minerals have Consciousness and can they become enlightened?" is as follows:

Yes, I feel so. Because they don't think, they are always mindful. They have never created notions, ideas, views, beliefs like silly humans. So, they don't have to suffer from separation or discrimination at all. And they don't need to waste their precious time and energy to throw them away. They don't need to gain intelligence for that. They can touch the wonders of life and attain insights without making efforts and enjoy their simple life. In this sense, all animals, plants and minerals have been enlightened since their manifestation. So, I really feel how silly we, humans are! We create notions, suffer a lot, practice a lot for throwing away all notions, and finally attain enlightenment. Humans are silly creatures who stir up trouble in order to be rewarded for solving it.

I understand that all of us (humans, animals, plants and minerals) are the same as the whole cosmos. Because all of us are made of water, air, earth and sunshine. And we are circulating within ecosystem physically and consciously by changing the forms. In other words, each particle or energy of our body is enfolding consciousness. So, we are the whole cosmos. All the past genetic ancestors and spiritual ancestors are in us and we are in the future genetic descendants and spiritual descendants.

(Cf.) http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/human-life-39415010

Humming bird Photo by Glenn Ognag

Human Mystery (YouTube version)

Here is a YouTube version of Human Mystery. 
http://youtu.be/dJ6Ra_Diu-M

* Please share with your friends!

Human Mystery 人間の神秘

Did you know our journey in this life was well planned by ourselves for the evolution of humanity?
http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/human-mystery

* Everyone is already enlightened! 
* True self is just covered up by ego.

今生の旅は人間性進化のために、自分でよく計画したものであることをご存知でしたか？

http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/ss-44812852

※誰もが既に悟りを開いています！
※本当の自分はエゴに覆われているだけです。

Mystery of Human Life 人生の神秘

Here is the Mystery of Human Life! 
http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/human-life-39415010

これが人生の神秘だ！
http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/ss-39591867

Implicate order

Regarding Temporality and Intemporality, I found a good material of David Bohm (nuclear physicist) as follows:

(1) explicate order: everything exists outside of everything else.
     (The whole cosmos is outside of us. We are outside of the
       whole cosmos.)
     (conventional truth in historical dimension)
     = Temporality

(2) implicate order: everything is inside of everything else.
     (The whole cosmos is inside of us. We are inside of the whole 
       cosmos.)   
     (one particle is made of all other particles.)
     (ultimate truth in ultimate dimension)
     = Intemporality

Thay mentioned as follows:
"Interpenetration": All is in one. Everything enters into and is 
                           entered into by everything else.
"Interdependence": Everything is related to everything else. 
                 In the one, we see the all. In the all, we see the one.

* The ultimate dimension cannot be described in words and notions that by their nature serve to cut reality into separate pieces.

By the way, I understand brain is the connector between body and consciousness. And brain interacts with universal (store) consciousness. But I have a question. How can body-mind (Temporality with time and space) connect with universal consciousness (Intemporality without time and space)? I understand change is possible only in time and space. Universal consciousness is not in time and space, so change is impossible. However, Thay said body-mind consciousness and universal consciousness are interdependent, which means both body-mind consciousness and universal consciousness are changing. What does it mean? Contradiction? (No contradiction. Because universal consciousness transcends the space and time, it can live in the historical dimension and the ultimate dimension, at the same time. So, universal consciousness is also changing in the historical dimension.)

I guess that from the viewpoint of body-mind (Temporality with time and space), universal consciousness may be seen as it is changing. That's because new karma created by body-mind will be imprinted on universal consciousness. But from the viewpoint of universal consciousness (Intemporality without time and space), Now (not a moment in time) may be just imprinted like a flash memory and change is not possible because it is immeasurable due to lack of duration. Therefore, change is recognized by body-mind but is not recognized by universal consciousness. (As mentioned in the above, universal consciousness can change in the historical dimension but can't change in the ultimate dimension.)

(Cf.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDKB7GcHNac

amazing universe Photo by Adam Corbin

YouTube "Mystery of Human Life " 「人生の神秘 」

Mystery of Human Life (You are already enlightened!)

http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/human-life-39415010

1. Wounded inner child

Our ego (separate self) is made up by our wounded inner child for self-protection because we were not accepted unconditionally by our parents (unconsciously) in babyhood. Our inner child is frightened at parents of fear and insecurity because s/he can't pull out oneself as a baby. 

Its purpose is to revive our past life's mental disposition according to the imprinted karma on our subconscious. That's why we chose our parents to make up the past life's ego and resume our new journey in this life from the end of our past life,

Therefore, our memories in babyhood may be covered up. If so, the family is a well planned ego manifestation factory and is a training center for evolution of humanity. 

2. Ego (separate self)

Most people believe ego (separate self or fake self) is oneself. That's because ego is in unconscious and can't be recognized consciously. Therefore, ego grows until true self revives.

People are not aware that their ego doesn't protect them and rather causes sufferings, because ego separates oneself from others. 

Ego has a distorted view of "I am special, separate and superior to others" which is one of wrong perceptions (afflictions). So, ego always sees illusions through mental projection and can't see the reality.

3. True self (non-separate self)

Most people may not have recognized that everyone has been enlightened since born. However, the truth is that your ego (separate self) is covering up true self (non-separate self or god). The key is who you are.

There are various methods to revive true self such as mindfulness, yoga and my own method of unconditional self-acceptance. But there is a difference between Self-Inquiry method and Meditation method. 

My own method is a Self-Inquiry method and enables us to revive true self through unconditional self-acceptance, heal our inner child and release our ego with pleasure for transcending the duality by one time attempt. Therefore, our ego will never cover up true self again.

4. Healing wounded inner child

Most people can't recognize our wounded inner child in subconscious. However, if you have ego, your wounded inner child is definitely covered up by your ego.  

Once true self revives, it is possible to recognize the sufferings of our wounded inner child, embrace it, relieve it, listen deeply, look deeply into it, understand the root cause, generate the energy of compassion and heal our wounded inner child.

If we succeed in healing our wounded inner child, s/he will never make up ego again for self-protection. That's because s/he doesn't have fear and insecurity any more.

5. Releasing ego with pleasure

Once our wounded inner child is healed, s/he doesn't need to make up ego anymore. As a result, the power of our ego is automatically weakened. Therefore, true self can easily release ego with pleasure.

So, there is no liberation because there never was any bondage. Everything was nothing but an illusion. But this illusion was intentionally created by ourselves, or subconscious.

These are the whole picture of Mystery of Human Life. We are being tested how we react to the same situation as our past life. It is like a makeup examination or a retest. We have to pass the examination or the test to overcome our past mistakes. Our life is for evolution of humanity.

Volcanic Eruption and Aurora in Iceland Photo by Martin Schulz

The roots

We have physical roots and mental roots. Physical roots are based on body, or genes and mental roots are based on spirit, or subconscious. It is easy to understand the physical root by looking back our ancestors but it is difficult to understand the mental root because it is not a particle.

Physical memories are passed on by genes and mental memories are passed on by imprinted karma (actions) on subconscious. Therefore, our physical roots and our mental roots are not always the same. But the characteristic of ego (mental disposition) must be similar (or the same) between the two. That's because we need to revive our past life's ego (mental disposition) in babyhood through the relationship with our parents to resume our new journey in this life from the end of our past life.

All through our life, we are being tested how we react to the same situation as our past life. It is like a makeup examination. If we pass the makeup examination, we can offset our karma. However, if we create a new karma, we have to take another makeup examination to pay for it. So, our life is a makeup examination for the evolution of humanity.

Where do our mental roots come from? That is a mystery. But it is certain that we are the the subconscious and wearing the body. And it is also certain that both subconscious and our body can never die according to the law of conservation of energy and mass and reincarnate forever. 

from SVAKODNEVNE FOTOGRAFIJE IZ KOMIŽE http://visuvis.wordpress.com/

Mystery of Consciousness

1. Store consciousness, Karma and Ego
Wholesome or unwholesome seeds in the store consciousness mean our imprinted previous karma till our past life. And we (the store consciousness) chose our parents to make up the particular ego (separate self) which was planned according to the imprinted past life's karma. Our parents, grand parents and all ancestors must have had the same or similar ego as their children's ego. That's because we need to revive our past life's ego (mental disposition) in babyhood to resume our new journey in this life from the end of our past life. Therefore, our memories in babyhood may be covered up. Our family can be said as a well planned ego manifestation factory and a training center for evolution of humanity. In this way, our karma reincarnate.

2. Seeds, Perception, View and Self
The seeds in the store consciousness germinate according to our perception. If we have wrong perception (afflictions), it waters unwholesome seeds and if we have right perception (detachment), it waters wholesome seeds. Therefore, selective watering is carried out by our perception. And one of wrong perceptions (afflictions) is the distorted view, or Manas (I am special and separate) which separates oneself from others. Furthermore, the distorted view (Manas) is caused by separate self, or ego. On the other hand, one of right perceptions (detachment) is the right view (we are all the same fundamentally) which accepts all without separation or discrimination. Furthermore, the right view is caused by non-separate self, or true self.

3. Consciousness, Brain, Mental formations
Our thinking is caused by the mind consciousness (brain) and mental projection is caused by unwholesome mental formations manifested in the mind consciousness (brain). That's why we see illusions through mental projection. On the other hand, our mindfulness is caused by the store consciousness (subconscious) followed by wholesome mental formations manifested in the mind consciousness (brain). That's why we can see the reality through insight (holistic view). 

4. Evolution of Humanity
As a conclusion, we are being tested how we react to the same situation as our past life. It is like a makeup examination. We have to pass the makeup examination to overcome our past mistakes. This is the method for the evolution of humanity. We are the store consciousness.
 

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Mystery of Cloud (Water) 雲（水）の神秘

Everything has consciousness, so cloud (water) also has consciousness. The following is one of the proof.
http://masaru-emoto.net/jp/project/english/01.html

There is no beginning and no end. So, I am the same as the cloud (water) . Watch the following youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhuHjPPRI64


全てのものは意識を持っていますので、雲（水）もまた、意識を持っています。以下は、その証明の一つです。 
http://masaru-emoto.net/jp/project/japan/01.html

始まりも終わりもありません。ですから、私は雲（水）と同じです。以下の動画をご覧ください。 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhuHjPPRI64