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I'm thinking Snow Dome (?)
I ask because I'm using it as an analogy to explain the mind, want to read?....
"What I find helps in this mental predicament, is a good dose of Buddhism. For it teaches that there is no objective reality - "everything is part of the mind". Even objects such as the computer you are using are part of your mind. It's a clever concept of detachment, or rather the lack of it. The mind is really empty, there is nothing in it.
An analogy I like is comparing the mind to a Snow Dome, like you see at Christmas time in shops. If you leave the dome alone it goes clear, you stir it up and the snow pollutes the clearness (metaphorically speaking) - The same with the mind, you start thinking there's a problem then your mind gets stirred up, leave your thoughts alone and they eventually settle - as is the aim of meditating.
Any concept of 'wrongness' surely has its roots in confusion. The world many often speak about is an detached one They picture it as something apart from them. Which is absurd. The world exists only in the mind, for it is the mind that perceives it. People say "He is in his own world", in comment, I believe it is this type of perception we shoud exercise with regards to the mind.
If there is something wrong with the world, we should define what the world actually is before we start trying to decipher if there is something wrong with it. Doesn't that make perfect sense?"
I ask because I'm using it as an analogy to explain the mind, want to read?....
"What I find helps in this mental predicament, is a good dose of Buddhism. For it teaches that there is no objective reality - "everything is part of the mind". Even objects such as the computer you are using are part of your mind. It's a clever concept of detachment, or rather the lack of it. The mind is really empty, there is nothing in it.
An analogy I like is comparing the mind to a Snow Dome, like you see at Christmas time in shops. If you leave the dome alone it goes clear, you stir it up and the snow pollutes the clearness (metaphorically speaking) - The same with the mind, you start thinking there's a problem then your mind gets stirred up, leave your thoughts alone and they eventually settle - as is the aim of meditating.
Any concept of 'wrongness' surely has its roots in confusion. The world many often speak about is an detached one They picture it as something apart from them. Which is absurd. The world exists only in the mind, for it is the mind that perceives it. People say "He is in his own world", in comment, I believe it is this type of perception we shoud exercise with regards to the mind.
If there is something wrong with the world, we should define what the world actually is before we start trying to decipher if there is something wrong with it. Doesn't that make perfect sense?"
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