Wednesday 17 January 2018

Consciousness & Self.

Recently i did listen to a Lecture by Bhikkhu Samahita about Emptiness.

Following thoughts & understanding occured:
- We are Mind, we are Consciousness.
- Consciousness itself experiences thoughts & feelings, Consciousness experiences Reality in a series of discrete moments that are perceived as continuous stream,
- Self is not permanent, it's what we perceive in a discrete moments, changing from a moment to a moment,
- Consciousness experiences changing Mind States, that we perceive as Reality - we perceive it as we have bodies, feelings, thoughts, meet people, see surroundings etc ... it's all mind states,
- Death is illusion as well, it's just another type of mind states, still experienced as changing from a moment to a moment. Both death & rebirth, life & bardo are all mind states,
- i think Liberation is types of Mind States, 'free situations' without worries, or with less worries. Both Inner & Outer Realities are part of such Mind States, so Purification Practices, Improving Karma, as well as Results of these Practices affect both Inner & Outer Realities.

Source: Bhikkhu Samahita, Dharma on Air #78: Emptiness.


Following questions arose:
- Do Spiritual Aspects of beings arise from Mind? are these Conditioned, part of one's Karma?
- Is one's Powerfield a part of one's Mind State? Is it Conditioned? Is it part of one's Karma?
- What is Probability? Is it predetermined by Cause & Effect? Do we still have free will alongside of our Karma?

Following Aspiration arose:
- To model Enlightenment Theory using Object-Oriented Methodology, a visual graph of 'what is?' & 'what has?'.

Ideas to use in such the model is Object-Oriented Modelling & Finite-State Automaton theory.

Finite automaton have states & transitions, in a given discrete moment mind is in one of possible mind states.

Change from a current state to another state occurs by following a transition arrow, and choice of arrow is determined by:
- One's Karma experienced in a given moment,
- One's Reaction to experienced Karma.

i am not sure how simplified or how precise this model will be.

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