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Tuesday
Jun162020

Perceiving is fine;

the issue is what we do next. 

The five senses, or five consciousnesses, are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. The first, for example, can let one accurately know what is being viewed. The five senses coupled with innate wisdom enable awakened beings to interact correctly with their environment and everything and everyone in it.

Sadly, unlike those beings who stop at perceiving and interacting correctly, we unawakened beings careen into the sixth consciousness of mental awareness—discrimination. This is the judgmental mind; let’s say the mind of black or white.

From here, things get worse as we instantly lurch into the seventh consciousness of thinking mind—attachment. This is the push-pull mind that judges inferior or superior, I dislike or I like, etc.

Fortunately for all involved, awakened beings stop at perceiving and interacting correctly.

Unfortunately, we’re not there yet.

And so, discriminating and attaching, we can end up causing terrible suffering. For ourselves in the future. And even worse, for others now.

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