[Twisted]

Buddhism vs Energy Theory

Illustrated Tibetan Book of the Dead by Stephen Hodge with Martin Boord

"Perhaps the most important idea to bear in mind is the Tibetan Buddhist view of human nature and how it relates to that mode of freedom and wisdom called "Enlightenment". Buddhism most emphatically stresses the centrality and primacy of the mind. The mind is the source of all things, it contains within it the possibility of enlightenment or else continued repetiton of the dreary miserable round of lives in the cycle of existence."

The clear correlation here between my theory and the Buddhist principals is that to do with the mind. I believe it is just a difference between concept and definitions here. The Buddhists believe in a consciousness, in fact, several different levels of it whereas I am attempting to put it into different levels of energy "frequencies". The Buddhists see life from the mind, whereas since I believe that the mind is energy, I see life from the energy.

"Indeed, it is the view of these teachings that the mind in its purest form, shorn of all ignorance and negativity, is inherently enlightened and replete with all the qualities one normally associates with enlightened beings such as the Buddhas. This pure primordial mind that precedes any manifestation of our own egocentric lives is said to be the very substance of reality."

The mind in its purest form, shorn of all ignorance and negativity can be compared to energy as I describe it in my theory. Although I do not agree that it is only negativity that it is exempt of. I will go so far as to say that the "mind" or energy as I deem it, is stripped of all ignorance and all emotion positive and negative in its most primordial form.

This gets into a discussion me and vincubus, my husband, had tonight. We were speaking about the theory and come to the discussion of "self awareness or self consciousness or mindfulness" and a Universal Consciousness or Universal Awareness or Universal Mindfulness". I believe that there is, upon the entrance of energy into the human brain (fetus stage) no self consciousness, no self awareness, and no mindfulness of the self. I believe that at this point, there is nothing but a Universal Conscoiusness that is linked to all the other energy in the whole of existence.

Self Consciousness/Self Awareness/Self Mindfulness is learned behavior, in my belief system here. I believe that the fetus that has now the collection of energy within the brain to make all the body function in balance for development is purely from Universal Consciousness.

Something interesting that my husband and I came up with, really a question, is this: What if independent energy, before collecting as a group does not have intelligence, but instinct and consciousness only? Then after it has experienced a lifetime or lifetimes, accumulates intelligence and stores it in memory. This would mean that energy could be put into groups, much like we group plants into species and genre. There would be energy that consists of nothing but consciousness and instinct; energy that consists of both instinct and intelligence and consciousness...etc. We could classify different classes of energy types assuming we are correct in thinking that primal independent energy only had instinct and consciousness.

There are a few questions to that question however: Where did this "instinct" and "consciousness" in the primal independent energy come from in the beginning (assuming there "is" a beginning) and why?

"Unfortunately, this primordial mind remains buried deep within our being for most of the time, unseen and unnoticed. Due to a dense overlay of spiritual ignorance, the various facets of enlightenment that are present in that mind, such as compassion, insight, tolerance, and so forth, can only reveal themselves in perverted and distorted manner. Thus, love becomes attachment and jealousy, compassion becomes hatred and anger, insight becomes opinionatedness and stupidity. These and other negative emotions then become the driving force for ever-greater egoism and spiritual poverty"

Reading this out of the book brought to mind a few things. The thoughts mostly question my own theory.

First off, Buddhism speaks of the primordial mind remaining buried deep within our being for most of the time. I believe this to be the Universal Consciousness that is inherited in all energy. The book states that due to a dense overlay of spiritual ignorance, the various facets of enlightenment that are present in the mind, such as compassion, insight, tolerance...etc can only reveal themselves in perverted and distorted manners. This is interesting because I believe all those to be learned behavior and thus become what spiritualists call "the ego" - that self awareness that develops in a child as they seek out independence from the people that raise them (mother and father in most cases).

The reason, according to my theory, why many people cannot access that Universal Consciousness - memories of past lives - memories of their birth - memories of past intelligence from past lives - the actual death/rebirth process inbetween lives; is because they have allowed this human ego to settle in and take over..thus the Universal Consciousness is put into the deepest facets of their existence and are very very hard to uncover after years of putting layer upon layer of Self Ego over it. In essence: We become individuals who we ourselves have created, thus we have created our own reality, person, experience, the moments of our lives, and everything that we believe, think, feel, and "are"....rather than letting the Universal Consciousness dictate it, we dictate it with our egos.

Then we have to consider the concept of emotion, which I will admit...perplexes me as much as vibration does. Why do we need emotion - what is its purpose? The compassion that Buddhism speaks of? Does emotion have a purpose to the objective of the Universe? Some may say that the objective of the Universe is nothing more than to find true happiness. To me, its just not that simple in my mind and I will find out.. someday somehow.. and hopefully sooner than later. This is truly something that I can honestly say "i dont know" on...I dont say that very often because usually I can come up with at least "some" rational explanation or at least an explanation however abstract..to it. I cannot here.

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