I just read this at a blog called Studying Tibetan Medicine owned by Kunga Namdrol and I thought it was very interesting. It seems that the mind is at the base of the state of our health.
"...just as we are generally unaware of our bodies until they become ill, likewise, we are generally unaware of the separation of the states of samsara and nirvana until we suffer. Likewise, we need a diagnosis to understand this condition, and further we need to do something i.e. use a treatment, we need to know what to do so that we can return in the end to that state of health. And finally, the metaphor is tied up with the fact that the basis is the mind, which is either in a state of knowledge or delusion, likewise, the body, being the gross expression of the ripening of the actions instigated by the mind, is in a state of health or illness depending on the three humors that ultimately arise from knowledge obscuration of ignorance."
--Loppon Kunga Namdrol
The Mind is the Base
>> June 10, 2009
I just read this at a blog called Studying Tibetan Medicine owned by Kunga Namdrol and I thought it was very interesting. It seems that the mind is at the base of the state of our health.
"...just as we are generally unaware of our bodies until they become ill, likewise, we are generally unaware of the separation of the states of samsara and nirvana until we suffer. Likewise, we need a diagnosis to understand this condition, and further we need to do something i.e. use a treatment, we need to know what to do so that we can return in the end to that state of health. And finally, the metaphor is tied up with the fact that the basis is the mind, which is either in a state of knowledge or delusion, likewise, the body, being the gross expression of the ripening of the actions instigated by the mind, is in a state of health or illness depending on the three humors that ultimately arise from knowledge obscuration of ignorance."
--Loppon Kunga Namdrol
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