Comments on: Follow your own path – spiritual virtue no.4 http://www.allconsidering.com/2009/your-own-path/ Considering life, spiritual growth and more ponderings Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: katinka - spiritual http://www.allconsidering.com/2009/your-own-path/comment-page-1/#comment-360 katinka - spiritual Mon, 04 May 2009 07:00:16 +0000 http://www.allconsidering.com/?p=512#comment-360 I'm pretty sure Blavatsky has it somewhere in The Voice of the Silence that the mind should lead the emotions and buddhi (roughly intuition) should lead the mind. Of course one can interpret those meditation pictures any way one chooses - that's why they're meditation pictures :) I’m pretty sure Blavatsky has it somewhere in The Voice of the Silence that the mind should lead the emotions and buddhi (roughly intuition) should lead the mind. Of course one can interpret those meditation pictures any way one chooses – that’s why they’re meditation pictures :)

]]> By: David Melik http://www.allconsidering.com/2009/your-own-path/comment-page-1/#comment-359 David Melik Mon, 04 May 2009 03:09:27 +0000 http://www.allconsidering.com/?p=512#comment-359 I am sure the picture includes having control over the emotions, but if Buddhists have 7 categories of consciousness in which there are 2 parts of manas besides emotions, then it seems to mean higher (monadic) manas controlling middle (transient) manas controlling emotional (transient) manas. Then one may get to ideas such as I described. However, that manasic triad confuses me. In HPB's esoteric papers maybe she did describe an idea Besant & Leadbeater used as their different monad idea, i.e. both atma and 'auric egg,' which does not seem to be buddhi. Whatever all that is, I still think the meditation picture means atma controlling buddhi controlling manas and so on. I am sure the picture includes having control over the emotions, but if Buddhists have 7 categories of consciousness in which there are 2 parts of manas besides emotions, then it seems to mean higher (monadic) manas controlling middle (transient) manas controlling emotional (transient) manas. Then one may get to ideas such as I described. However, that manasic triad confuses me. In HPB’s esoteric papers maybe she did describe an idea Besant & Leadbeater used as their different monad idea, i.e. both atma and ‘auric egg,’ which does not seem to be buddhi. Whatever all that is, I still think the meditation picture means atma controlling buddhi controlling manas and so on.

]]> By: Katinka Hesselink - All Considering http://www.allconsidering.com/2009/your-own-path/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Katinka Hesselink - All Considering Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:08:23 +0000 http://www.allconsidering.com/?p=512#comment-358 Doesn't that picture represent having control over the emotions, instead of being lead by them? But yes - everything can be taken to an unhealthy extreme, and 'following one's own path' is certainly one of those things. Doesn’t that picture represent having control over the emotions, instead of being lead by them?

But yes – everything can be taken to an unhealthy extreme, and ‘following one’s own path’ is certainly one of those things.

]]> By: David Melik http://www.allconsidering.com/2009/your-own-path/comment-page-1/#comment-357 David Melik Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:55:17 +0000 http://www.allconsidering.com/?p=512#comment-357 That is good... but also if one happens to get bored or have a lot of time and consider this virtue rather than even 'make one's own path' it may lead to a slight problem. First of all when one is apperceiving one may think of 'follow one's....' Then one may think 'What is one; I?' Then a thought may occur that one is following oneself along with ideas about what one is (consciousness levels.) Tibetan Buddhism has one of those cloth pictures about 10 stages of meditation and at the end one is even leading oneself (represented by a person and an elephant.) That is good… but also if one happens to get bored or have a lot of time and consider this virtue rather than even ‘make one’s own path’ it may lead to a slight problem. First of all when one is apperceiving one may think of ‘follow one’s….’ Then one may think ‘What is one; I?’ Then a thought may occur that one is following oneself along with ideas about what one is (consciousness levels.) Tibetan Buddhism has one of those cloth pictures about 10 stages of meditation and at the end one is even leading oneself (represented by a person and an elephant.)

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