Originally posted by casino_king:
Why then did the mind create.....
commonly said it's ignorance.
According to the Law of Dependent Origination, there are twelve
factors which account for the continuity of existence birth after
birth. The factors are as follows:
Through ignorance are conditioned volitional actions or
kamma-formations.
Through volitional actions is conditioned consciousness.
Through consciousness are conditioned mental and physical
phenomena.
Through mental and physical phenomena are conditioned the six
faculties(i.e., five physical sense-organs and mind).
Through the six faculties is conditioned (sensorial and mental)
contact.
Through (sensorial and mental)contact is conditioned
sensation.
Through sensation is conditioned desire, 'thirst".
Through desire ('thirst') is conditioned clinging.
Through clinging is conditioned the process of becoming.
Through the process of becoming is conditioned birth.
through birth are conditioned decay, death, sorrow, lamentation,
pain, grief and despair.
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/buddhism/dhammananda/106.htm
in my own word, the mind moved, because we wanted to know, hence it
formulated existence. not knowing that the Mind IS the know. like
in I-Ching, Tai-ji to Liang-yi (Yin and Yang) to Four Graphs to
Eight Trigrams to 64 etc. keep on discriminating. not able to
RETURN to ONENESS. actually the original source/mind is already
perfect without good or bad, past or future, big or small, if one
can just return to it 's original state.
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