THE SIX DUSTS
"When you find you're ass-deep in alligators, just remember you came to drain the swap"
"We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine what we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent."
A mirror is in both Buddhism and Japanese Shinto to represent our pure "original mind", a mind unstained by wordly desires.
Unlike Western religions which teach that man is "born into sin" with two strikes already against him, Buddism maintains that the original nature of man is perfect, that our mind is like a beautiful mirror crafted to perfectly reflect the will of the Universe.
UnFortunately "Dusts" obscure our otherwise perfect mind-mirror, preventing us from seeing our true selfs reflected.
The goal then is, via meditation and other Buddhist practices, to gradually wipe away these worldly dusts in order to accurately refect reality as it is, rather than as we'd like it to be.
With all dus respect to the Buddha, First Comes Survival, Then comes enlightennment.
While the Buddha would undoubtedly frown at our "misusing" his insights and observations for personal gain, From the Black Science perspective, Art of War in a Spiriual War Context Which is Going on allround us the more dust we can blow into Our enemy'ys eyes, the better for us. Six kinds of worldly dust prevent us from seeing correctly: From, Sound, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Dharmas (i.e., external opinions and views". These dusts are similar to the mind "filters" in NLP the subconscious filters of our mind changing them, with our co-operation and permission, to filter in whats around us We Give Our Power Away Daily. instead of
Giving Our Selfs Our own Purpose Using Our Own Intuition Looking Inside to find our own.
Using Our analytical mind (The analytical mind is the conscious, aware mind which
thinks, observes data, remembers it and resolves
problems. The reactive mind is the portion of a person's
mind which works on a totally stimulus-response basis,
which is not under his volitional control, and which
exerts force and the power of command over his awareness,
purposes, thoughts, body and actions.) We Can Break Free Of The Limited Programing around Us. And Give Our Selfs A Reformat... Take Out The Old Windows 95 Off the hard Disk, And Replace With a New Faster Working Model .
Perception and Power, Esoteric Tibetan tantricism )often accused of being a somewhat "twised" brance of the great Buddha tree) Lists six such dusts, what they call Sem yung, "mental factors" These Sem Yung are the Risa nyon, Six "root affictions" that stand in the way of Enlightenment: Desire, Anger, Pride, Ignorance, Doubt, and Afflicted views (i.e., Egotism and Attachment). Whaich Are Over Promoted in the West.
Dont Forget Cicero's Six
"We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine what we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent."
The thinking side of life
As soon as you present your mind with a question it goes to work analyzing and calculating. It combs your mental file cabinets in search of relevant information. It quickly picks out similarities and patterns as it builds an almost instant resource of connected data. What a marvel the human mind is.
We can use this amazing ability for just about anything you can think of. Whenever we make plans for the day, the week, or the year, our mind goes into analytical mode. As we review past performance, it becomes an efficiency expert seeking ways to make improvements. Our mind is a tireless servant, chomping at the bit and ready to take on any and all challenges that we may give it.
The experiencing side of life
There is another wonderful ability we need to consider that also makes a giant contribution to an amazing life . It’s the ability to actually experience life through our five senses. Like the mind, our senses also gather information and feed it to our nervous system, but this happens on a completely different level then pure mental analysis. This is a different kind of intelligence altogether.
In fact, when our senses are fully engaged, thinking often comes to a screeching halt. This is what allows us to fully savor an experience in the moment. When you stop to smell that perfect rose, or you come out from a cold shadow into the warm embrace of the sunshine, what happens? Do you stop to analyze it, or do you just experience it?
When the mind and sensory organs fully merge
There are rare occasions when the full power of our analytical mind and our sensory experience come together in the moment. This usually happens in conjunction with a huge dose of adrenaline. Have you ever been in an emergency situation where everything turned into slow motion, and all of your senses were on hyper alert, while your mind was calculating every detail?
One such occasion that stands out for me happened in a cross country hang gliding race over a rugged range of mountains. I had to make an emergency landing in a completely unacceptable speck of clear ground deep in the forest. The whole event probably lasted about 30 seconds, but for me it seemed like I had all the time in the world. My heightened state of alertness turned those seconds into slow motion, and I was fully aware of every moment. Like I said, these occasions are rare and adrenaline usually plays a major role.
The analytical mind versus the physical senses
More often than not, our mind tends to pull us away from, or minimize sensory input. This is because our senses give us information in the moment while our mind likes to operate outside of the moment in some abstract time warp. We can get so busy problem solving that thinking takes over our awareness, and we lose our sense of the here and now. Sometimes this kind of concentration serves us, but sometimes it robs us of the experience of life.
The mind is a bully and it likes to be in charge. Making room in our life to enjoy the experience of living in the moment, means learning to control the runaway thought process and allowing sensory feedback to have shared custody of our life. We need to learn to stop and smell the roses whether our busy brain likes it or not.
Paths that lead to balance
There are two main approaches to subduing the mental monster and temporarily giving our consciousness over to our other senses. These two approaches are at the opposite ends of the spectrum. In between these two extremes, there exists a wide variety of useful activities that allow for an increased sense of balance.
As we look at the spectrum of possibilities, keep in mind that what we are looking for here is greater balance. We create this balance by allowing some time, on a regular basis, for the mind to take a back seat while we allow sensory input to help us feel more fully engaged in the moment. Let’s consider the two primary but opposite approaches.
Quiet the mind
This approach is the exact opposite of the last one. Instead of using sensory stimulation to beat back the brain bully, we coax it into a state of peaceful hibernation. Of course, this one requires that we learn to consciously gain control of the thinking process, and then purposely dial it way down. This can be more difficult then it sounds because the analytical mind will try to take advantage of the lack of sensory input to do what it loves to do – THINK!
People use a variety of techniques to accomplish the goal of a quiet mind. All of the popular forms of meditation and controlled breathing share this objective. Anything that can mesmerize us, such as soothing music or nature sounds, a campfire or fireplace, also helps to quiet the mind. Additionally, there are some specially designed skills like the Sedona Method or the Release Technique with mental quieting as their main objective.
We should also recognize that millions of people also use drugs and/or alcohol in an attempt to dial down the thinking process without any real effort on their part. There are also new technologies that do most of the work for you by using highly specialized rhythmic patterns to control brain wave frequency such as binaural beats.
Ramp up sensory stimulation
With this approach we engage in any activity that creates massive sensory stimuli. Doing so will literally force the analytical mind out of the picture by overriding it with stronger neurological signals. Some examples would include any form of physical activity or intense exercise that you cannot do on autopilot.
Some that come to mind are body surfing, weight lifting, circuit training, aerobics, getting a massage, and sex. These kinds of activities demand that we be “in the moment” and they are linked primarily to a state of physical readiness. They are defined by sensory involvement and as a result, we are literally forced to participate in real time.
People tend to manifest their feelings or emotions when in contact with environmental changes for example suddenly get angry when someone says unkind words. Between mental activities and actions, there are some processes going on in our mind that finally certain decisions are made and actions done accordingly. We are always in a certain environment at anytime and anywhere. Some things are always happening in our surroundings and how do we sense and react to these changes in our environment depend on our cultivation. When in danger one will run for his dear life.
This action-reaction couple is constantly taking place and we may or may not be aware. When we are doing things in routine, like closing and locking the door after we leave our house, we may not remember whether we have actually locked the door of the house or the car after walking a few steps away asking ourselves, did I lock my car! We did it naturally and we let go of it also naturally without attachment. But for some changes in our environment, the mind makes a decision and takes an action to react to the environmental changes and then finally attached to it.
For example smoking where we know no one is born with a cigarette in his or her hand. After the first temptation to smoke the first cigarette at some time in one’s life, something is left in the mind. The first cigarette that sends the thrill is the so-called attachment where subsequently the more the person smokes, the more he is attached to the habit of smoking until one day he will find it terribly difficult to quit, both psychologically and physically. Smoking is merely an example of a dust that pollutes our mind and soul. However, there are many other things we tend to leave some mark of them in our mind where we don’t usually let go easily.
There is another consciousness besides the six consciousnesses which we called the karmic seeds. It is the consciousness from the past lives and when the external condition and changes of environment are suitable or mature the corresponding karmic seeds will sprout, take root, grow up and then influence this person to take corresponding actions. The true self may not want to do so, but because of the influence of the attachments and karmic seeds, this person still goes on to take those actions no matter how much he was advised not to do so. He practically has no way to stop the action, just like smoking, from the very first cigarette.
We have been influenced by the first six senses for such a long time that we are used to them and we resort to them constantly. Usually our decisions are made not by our true self but by the karmic self and most of the time they are taken to satisfy the need of the body but not the need of the soul because we cannot see the soul and recognize them. This may look simple but most of the tragic crimes are because of the past lives’ debts taking place by the changes in environment when the six dusts cover the normal senses. Although it is due to the influence of those karmic seeds and attachments, it is still the SELF that makes the decision to take that action and so the SELF that took the wrong action has to suffer later. Cultivation is to wake up this SELF and makes sure it does not take the wrong action by clearing the dusts of the world that blinded us.
If we are able to hold a higher and detached point of view to see this world, then just imagine yourself as a bystander, looking at the effect of the cause from above like a play knowing the final outcome. Knowing the cause that gives the corresponding effect, the awakened and wise one fears the cause but the lost one fears the effect. Just be alert before making any decisions or when there is any input getting into your mind through these six roots and dusts, think for yourselves deeply the consequences that will follow by later on in time. Exercise careful precaution and alertness otherwise we would definitely make the same mistake again and again. Recognize your true self and win the battle against the karmic self.
This is a goal not so easy to achieve because it requires constant effort in self-cultivation in our daily life. Whether you can be your own master or not is indeed up to you. And whether you would like to be enslaved by the physical self or the karmic self is also up to you. You have a choice as a human being because the animals do not have a choice. They have to live a life that was trapped in that animal form. It is very important to be awakened to this simple truth of clearing the dusts before our eyes to allow us to see.
This is the saying of my Heavenly Teacher JiGong:
“Life is not the cutting-off and the ending-up of something. It is actually the flowing and turning of a series of interrelated causes-within-consequences
T.A Chew realized that because of the karmic seeds he has to practise Tao so as to change his life for the better. The good future can be created by doing the right thing now and be detached from the past.
