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Thoughts, Consciousness, and Self

NirvanaNoobNirvanaNoob
edited September 2010 in Buddhism Basics
What is the Buddhist perspective on these subjects?

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  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    edited September 2010
    thoughts are when we are thinking. We already know what they are or at least we experience them often enough. We take them as a solid reality and the buddhist perspective is that this is a wrong view that the thoughts are actually not solid. In other words we might become convinced it is a bad day or someone is a bad person and then we have a rigid view and our mood is affected.

    Consciousness could refer to the fifth skanda. Which would be it is something that happens in a causal chain of events. Conditional. It might also refer to the non-conditional space that awareness occurs in but that would be confusing because that would be different from the skanda.

    Buddhism says that the self is not the skandas.. Form, feeling (good, bad, neutral), perception, mental formation (more involved than a perception, consciousness. Indeed the self is not conditional according to buddhism.
  • jinzangjinzang Veteran
    edited September 2010
    The work of the ear ends with hearing. The work of the mind ends with thinking. But the spirit is an emptiness that contains all things -- Chuang Tzu (who was NOT Buddhist, but I like this quote.)
  • DaozenDaozen Veteran
    edited September 2010
    NirvanaNoob wrote: »
    What is the Buddhist perspective on these subjects?
    Om.
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