world

upekka

what is 'world'?
or
where is 'world'?
or
when is 'world'?

Lionduck

What id your perception of 'world'?
In truth, a thousand people will give you 10,000 or more different answers.

BhikkhuJayasara

The world, the All, is simply the six senses, you cannot know anything outside of them. They encompass all that can be known, they are the world.

At Savatthi. “Bhikkhus, I will teach you the all. Listen to that….

“And what, bhikkhus, is the all? The eye and forms, the ear and sounds, the nose and odours, the tongue and tastes, the body and tactile objects, the mind and mental phenomena. This is called the all.“If anyone, bhikkhus, should speak thus: ‘Having rejected this all, I shall make known another all’—that would be a mere empty boast on his part. If he were questioned he would not be able to reply and, further, he would meet with vexation. For what reason? Because, bhikkhus, that would not be within his domain.”

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“Bhante, by what is the world led? By what is the world dragged around? When what has arisen does [the world] go under its control?” “Good, good, bhikkhu! Your acumen is excellent. Your discernment is excellent. Your inquiry is a good one. For you have asked thus: ‘Bhante, by what is the world led? By what is the world dragged around? When what has arisen does [the world] go under its control?’”“Yes, Bhante.”“The world, bhikkhu, is led by the mind; it is dragged around by the mind; when the mind has arisen, [the world] goes under its control.”

pegembara

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave them kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall

Pink Floyd

DairyLama

@upekka said:
what is 'world'?

It is empty.

"Insofar as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ananda, that the world is empty. And what is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self? The eye is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self. Forms... Eye-consciousness... Eye-contact is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.085.than.html

Jeroen

The world is the external world, that great interdependent whole which we all interact with, and can measure and affect and so share with others.

The world is also the internal world, that sensate environment which our mind constructs out of the bare input of our senses. This is conditioned and composite out of the many things the mind has learned and the values it assigns.

The world is also that realm of the mind which hosts all the things that the internal world gives rise to, the emotions that arise when one sees a loved one or someone who has proved difficult in past interactions.