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🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, thanks for listening to this Darma podcast. I hope you consider that in accordance |
0:05.3 | with the Buddhist tradition all of my work as a teacher is offered without charge and |
0:09.7 | supported entirely by donations only. If you'd like to support this work, you'll find a paypal button on darmapunk NYC.com. |
0:17.0 | So from the very earliest teachings attributed to the historical Buddha, that would refer to the mind. |
0:25.6 | One was Manna and one was Chita. |
0:31.1 | These terms keep coming up, but they're always just translated as mind. |
0:36.0 | But actually, if we look at them closely, we see that, well, sometimes those words are used interchangeably |
0:44.0 | but very often they have two very distinct qualities to them. |
0:48.0 | Manas is referring to the mind that is rational, that is verbal, that is, has beliefs, views and opinions |
1:01.3 | that interprets the world into stories. |
1:06.4 | But then there was this other word chita, |
1:08.6 | which refers to a mind that is nonverbal, emotional, that is the body mind or the heart mind it's sometimes called, it's the quality of attention. |
1:22.0 | It's the mind that is that we're all of our implicit behaviors and our |
1:28.3 | habits are stored. So very early on there was this recognition that there's two kinds of mind that we have. |
1:37.0 | And due to recent developments since the |
1:43.0 | since the 1960s, not only split-brain research with epilepsy patients, |
1:48.0 | but transcravial magnetic stimulation and water tests and shown that in fact the two hemispheres of the |
1:59.2 | brain which have essentially this there's a right and left everything in your brain right and why is that and why not only are there duplicates of everything but why is it that these two hemispheres are shaped differently and why is that certain |
2:16.0 | hemispheres, one's hemisphere will light up doing certain tasks at times when another |
2:21.6 | hemisphere will be rather silent and vice versa. |
2:25.0 | And why, and how does that help us explain our behaviors and our views of the world that we can have very contradictory struggles in us. |
2:37.7 | We can have desires that we procrastinate. |
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