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Exposures of the Mind
The environment sense organs spring
as, and when, the projective elements of the environment
come into contact with the reflective elements of the senses.
Contact exposures of the mind - through the sense apertures -
fade away where they spring
although some penetrate deep into the core of mind, the heart.
The inner mind radiates glows
in relation to the intensity of penetration or exposure.
The reactions thus caused are the sensations that develop in the mind;
we discern the presence of feelings
when sensations have developed sufficiently.
Mental currents as glow effects of mind
are essentially sensations that fall under two main categories;
thus we have feelings of purity
or feelings of defilement.
Glow effects of the mind, known to be thirty-nine altogether,
range from purity to defilement;
they comprise twenty-five mental currents or glow effects of purity,
and fourteen currents of defilement.
Mental Currents of Purity
(characterized by their glow effects)
General Good Attributes
- Confidence
- Mindfulness
- Repentance of evil or foolish action
- Aversion from evil or foolish action
- Benevolence/Loving kindness
- Sympathetic Joy
- Equanimity
- Sublimation of Bodily Action
- Sublimation of Mental Action
- Lightness of mental properties
- Lightness of mind
- Softness of mental properties
- Softness of mind
- Fitness of Mental properties
- Fitness of mind
- Proficiency of Mental properties
- Proficiency of mind
- Physical uprightness
- Mental uprightness
Mental Factors of Abstinence
- Proper speech
- Proper Industry
- Proper Livelihood
Mental Factors of Transcendent Kindness
- Loving kindness to all beings
- Compassion (seeing through the eyes of all beings)
Mental Factor of Luminosity
- Knowledge (as opposed to ignorance)
(characterized by their glow effects)
- Ignorance
- Shamelessness and non-repentance of evil or foolish action
- Fearlessness of evil or foolish action
- Turbulence
- Greed
- Wrong perception
- Conceit
- Hatred
- Jealousy
- Stinginess or miserliness
- Repentance
- Sickliness of body
- Sickliness of mind
- Indecision/wavering nature
The Mind, in Its Entirety, is A Collection of Forces.
Our actions and reactions stem from our thought formations that comprise the counteractive qualities of purities and defilements.
We, as humans, bear the power of freedom to transform our minds from darkness to luminosity through the cultivation of pure thoughts.
Mindfulness in body, speech, and mind, sets the mind free from all possible inclusions that obscure the spacious nature of the inner mind.
Let me walk you along the path of peace and grace. Humanity cries out loud for help.