BUDDHA BY NATURE ~3~ IT IS YOUR MIND THAT MAKES THIS WORLD

[lancenazzaro]

Tai Situ teaches beyond words. When we finally get it we don't have to discuss anymore, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We are all Buddhas, even if we don't know it.

[technoterri]

Not quite right! What I see and you see are colour and form, our consciousness is common to all humans. What you think and I thought i

[onetao8]

I love how he laughs at the end :)

[xxEyelessificationxx]

i think in this video he is high^^

[MrMansson10]

@mrcalm lol which one am I in the koan?

[shaunaMchale83544564]

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[MrMansson10]

Thats ridiculous. If your mind makes this world then a book can be changed into an ice cream cone, try it I bet it will be impossible. Although, at the same time it's true your mind makes the world(what it is). If thousands of people are filled with greed wanting more than they need and basicly worshipping money you get a dog eat dog enviroment where might is supposedly right. Natre itself isnt at all like that but rather a symbiotic eco-SYSTEM interdepenantly working TOGETHER.

[MrCalmlikeaBomb]

@MrMansson10 Gravity is a creation of your mind. Prove the existence of gravity without your mind and its faculties, and lemme know what you come up with.

Welcome to Buddhism :)

[MrMansson10]

@MrCalmlikeaBomb That's crazy talk. Gravity isnt the creation of the mind, the word is the creation of the mind,but the thing itself is not. Gravity is that force that keeps you from floating up to the sky like a baloon with so much helium. Gravity is what makes an apple fall from the apple tree. Gravity is that thing that makes one fall after tripping. Gravity IS independant of the mind.

[MrCalmlikeaBomb]

@MrMansson10 you remind me of a Koan: Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had preached about, the boy would raise his finger. Gutei heard about the boy's mischief. He seized him and cut off his finger. The boy cried and ran away. Gutei called and stopped him. When the boy turned his head to Gutei, Gutei raised up his own finger. In that instant the boy was enlightened.

[zopadorje]

Gravity is also a creation of your mind.

[MrMansson10]

@zopadorje Then I challenge you to make yourself not bound by gravity. Can you do it? No, because gravity is a force that exist INDEPENDANT of your mind as everything OUTSIDE of your mind does. The ONLY effect one's mind has on outside things is translating certain vibrations into the appropriate register of a partiular sense organ. Like the adage of a tree falling in the forest. It doesnt make a sound if no CREATURE with the ability to hear is around to hear it. Can a deaf person hear a scream?

[rationalpower]

If everything that you see is a manifestation . Then how do you explain things such as gravity? Humans did not know about gravity but it still manifested itself

[MrCalmlikeaBomb]

@rationalpower Prove the existence of gravity without your mind and its faculties and lemme know what ya come up with. :)

[HHK17]

... when a bone is shining like a diamond you know - you are a dog ...

... when a diamond is shining like a diamond - you know you are a woman ...

... when everything and nothing is shining like a diamond - you know you are a buddha ...

[TravisHYoungz]

mhhmm total neu hier wer mag oder will mit mir chattn der meldet sich ja ^^

[tenzinpalden]

what is the perception of mind based on? culture? religion background? experience?

[taliayu]

all, unless is silent

[zetetic0void]

Similarly, a dog thinks of the ever-replenishing supply of clear drinkable water in a toilet quite differently than humans haha

It is said that young babies still haven't learned (or been taught) to perceive themselves as separate from what they will be trained to think of as the 'exterior world' full of "separate" objects (with their self as separate inside the environment). Babies are closer to a non-duality state. They haven't learned the little boxes (words) we break Reality into

[Zagreanel]

the thing is , once you realise that your mind is making the world you live in, by then your mind does not belong you any more or you does not belong your mind any more. Then what is the point in saying it's your mind !

[capiso1]

Simply true. The minds interpretes the reality and "create" a world. Just one world for each one of us. So there cannot exists one objective world since it is different for everyone. How can exist just one reality since it is experienced in a different way for every mind? Simply wonderful.

[yeasayer]

Just because the world is experienced subjectively by each being does not mean there is not an objective world. If there were no objective world, there would be no common world for us to have subjective experiences of and we would all be trapped in our own solipsistic worlds without any common reality to share.

[pigeonCbread]

If objective reality exists, then prove it. In fact, you will find that one doesn't even have the tools to prove such a thing. You subjectively experience even scientific data. This doesn't establish anything other than that your subjective experience of an apparent objective reality seems to obey some kind of rules, i.e., the "laws" of nature.

[yeasayer]

Just to be clear pigeonCbread, I was responding to what I thought was a wholly solipsistic view put forward by capiso1. Your argument is less solipsistic since you grant that there are "scientific data" and "'laws' of nature." I don't see how Buddhism could deny objective reality; perhaps, it would be better to say that whatever objective reality there is is empty of inherent existence and that it can be experienced differently, or subjectively, as you say....

[yeasayer]

Again, if there is not something common to our experience then we would live completely in our own worlds, like when we are dreaming and all the beings we interact with are purely imaginary. All that Tai Situ is pointing out here is that we all perceive the world through our own senses and concepts. Humans throw bones away and dogs chew on them.

[angomako]

bravo,amaising and so simple:)

i'm all smiles!

[HHK17]

"All phenomena are illusory displays of the mind.

The mind is no mind, as the nature of the mind is empty.

It is empty, yet it is unceasing and unimpeded, manifesting as everything whatsoever.

Through careful observation, may the root be cut through.

Appearances have no true existence,

seeing self-manifestation as objects is illusory.

Because of ignorance, self-awareness is mistaken as "I".

Because of dualistic fixation, beings wander in samsara."

RANGJUNG DORJE, the 3dr Karmapa

[capiso1]

I know I am in samsara because of the dualistic fixation. I know there is no such thing as "I" and no thing as "world" and no thing as "reality". I know only trough meditation and observation can be discerned this true.

[HHK17]

Nice discussion ... I love it ... :)

I guess the question is: shall we believe in anything and why...

The Christian answer is 'YES - we have to believe'

The Buddhist answer is: 'NO - instead we should give up our false believes: our believe in 'the world out there' and in our own 'I' ...

But let's go with the Christian way - let's believe in GOD - who is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent ... allmighty - so he/she is beyond all limits and beyond all imagination ... how can I believe in him/her

[Carex09]

I'm not Christian- if this comment was directed toward me and my beliefs.

Belief in God does not make one a Christian. And there is a difference between reading it in a book, or having someone else tell you about it than learning from your own observations and experiences.

All phenomena are illusory displays of God, even the "mind" and "I."

[shutemdwn]

sometimes i feel we are playing a game for someones amusement. haha, how would a supreme being perceive us i wonder? the biggest wonder to me, is that anything exists at all,lol. its really something, ever just look out at the stars and just become amazed at it? not how big it is, or the beauty of it, but just that it is there at all? haha. like the videos.

[Averyunknownpoet]

some practical remark: opening and closing credits seem relatively too long

[HHK17]

thanks... I agree

[Ganeschar]

How true! The mind is the creator!

[FarFromZero]

@Ganeschar

"The mind is the creator!"

True. But there is no mind. The thing you call mind is created by the mind. But there is no mind. Existance is an idea of mind, the same mind, which does not exist. The world is empty, there is no world of existing items. No, that's not nihilism. Cause everything you feel is real. But although everything you feel is real, there is still no reality. Have fun.

[lotrgeeek]

how do we even know that the dog percives we think that he percives therefore he percives. we make our own world, the reason that our world is not perfect is that we would question a perfect world to much andstrive to make it not perfect. in this world we see (or i think that everyone else sees)all the suffering and say this makes sense and stop questioning it. the reason its not perfect is because we couldnt handle a perfect world there would be nothing to strive for.

[YTR0009]

and in the end we lie to ourselves about the reality

[hearer87]

i think i understand what your saying. a human rebirth is the most valueble for change as it lies between to much suffering and to much 'perfection'. so if we where born into either states we would not have any chance at transformaion?

[lotrgeeek]

yeah if we were born on to far to the left or right of the scale then for either one we couldnt do anything but by being in the middle we can choose which way we're going to lean and there is always something to balance us. and that is where this world is led back to balance plain and simple

[YTR0009]

it's your common sense

[Carex09]

The title of this is "It is your mind that makes this world." But what if the mind itself is not from this world. Then what might it be than what we now perceive?

Why do people make others suffer purposefully or not? Do we not know enough of history to not repeat it?

Yes the world is what you perceive it as. But what makes the world perceived in so many different ways? If our minds were of this world then should we not care deeply about the contents in it? Yet many do not.

[rudeymike]

if the mind makes our reality then arn't we all gods? we are our own saviours and our own demons. so y are we here?

[Carex09]

The mind perceives reality. It is not the source. It like saying that the skin is the source of heat- while internal metabolism, the sun, or some other external source of heat such as fire is really the source of such heat.

Gods are as Gods are- if our reality was made by us, wouldn't it be better by now?

[rudeymike]

we r gettin deep now. if u take into account the fact that the general public is manipulated by the global elite then i guess it answers your question. god means creator, we create our reality and destiny so yes i think in a way we are all gods. quantum pysics proves that our conciousness changes the behaviour of a partical just from observation.

[Carex09]

Physics experiments do prove that the observation of a photon (particle) changes its movement. But does that mean that our perception of the particle changed it or that the particle itself changed because of us watching it? If we consider that all of the universe is full of life- atoms, electrons, waves and photons and that all movement is created by God- not us- then the conclusion is not that our observation created change, but that our observations are being observed.

[Carex09]

A couple years ago I was hiking in the woods and had been hiking for a while. I happened to look downhill through this brush- and I didn't see anything. But, a cougar that had been stalking me and my dog- thought that I was looking directly at it and it ran off. I didn't see the cougar though until it moved. In this case my observations were being observed by the cougar, and the cougar moved because of this perceived observation.

[Carex09]

Again, if God created all movement what is the difference between the cougar moving and the particle moving? Very little. One is just alot smaller, less complex, and much less dangerous.

[hearer87]

you make a clear argument, one that is not rejected by buddhists either. do you believe that the object i.e particle and subject, the perciver, have their own cause or are they simultaneously coming inot being through GOD?

[Carex09]

I think we like to assume because something has always been the way it has been, that it must work automatically- without God creating it.

We plant a seed of a plant, and know the biology behind what makes the seed germinate and grow into a new plant. Because it happens predictably everytime, we think that the plant just grows- but that is not to say that it didn't come into being because God wanted it to and put energy forth in order to get it to- in the form of mitosis and ATP chains.

[Carex09]

"do you believe that the object i.e particle and subject, the perceiver, have their own cause or are they simultaneously coming in to being through GOD?"

A good example of this is breathing. Although we perceive our breathing- it is considered to be an automatic process and is taken somewhat for granted. Just because we have no perception most of the time of being in control of this- we think that it "has its own cause." But without God creating breath- every breath- we would all be dead.

[hearer87]

I think you are a beliver in GOD whereas i am not. As a Buddhist i dont believe in a creator god, that doesnt mean to say from my persective that any religon is inferior, actually the opposite. I would argue that their is more than just one life from how is see things and that these rely on their own causes. many complex causes.

[Carex09]

I wish there was such independence in the world, and that everything did have its own causes.But the patterns of the world repeat.There is great inequality in the world, it has always been.We have been fighting each other since we were apes in trees.If everything had its own causes- then it wouldn't be so screwed up.But we sit at the brink of a great ecological disaster as well as WWIII-everything is unfortunately related.Everything has problems from the birds and the bees to the polar ice caps.

[hearer87]

things are constantly changing every moment, this has causes my friend. Your mind is the cause. Your mind is changing instant by instant, if it didnty change then you would never think a different thought it would just 'be'. this natural change has a cause. it is dependant on a previous moment of mind. this ability to change means you can change your mind. patterns in history mean nothing. its notn predetermined at all. the sprout has a cause, its the seed

[Carex09]

Consciousness is a stream. We are not the source of the stream- a spring or snow, and we are not the ocean- where it all flows to. Watch it flow past- our thoughts- your thoughts- and tell me again that it just sprang from nothing and is going to nothing. For God is the glacier or the spring in which thought arises, and he is also the ocean in which all thought and action shall eventually reside.

[Carex09]

Yes, everything does have a source. And yes everything does have a goal. But we are not it. We are only the river going past.

[honhanguyen]

Prajnaparamita Sutras or Heart Sutras

[TurquoiseLamp]

absolutely brilliant - all these videos are so amazing!!! thank you for putting them on youtube.

[lobdet]

Hello Tom,

This is also my favorite quotation from the Dhammapada. Thank you for sharing.

[LifeCoachToolman]

Very thought provoking!

[zeko543]

sind was wir denken, Alles was wir sind entsteht aus unseren Gedanken. Mit unseren Gedanken formen wir die Welt... Lord Buddha.

[mwild23]

Ich wußte es schon immer:

Ich bin das Maß aller Dinge!

[mwild23]

My mind is empty but the world is full!

[tomzachmeier]

The 3rd Gyalwa Karmapa, RANGJUNG DORJE:

"All phenomena are illusory displays of the mind.

The mind is no mind, as the nature of the mind is empty.

It is empty, yet it is unceasing and unimpeded, manifesting as everything whatsoever.

Through careful observation, may the root be cut through.

Appearances have no true existence, seeing self-manifestation as objects is illusory.

Because of ignorance, self-awareness is mistaken as "I".

Because of dualistic fixation, beings wander in samsara."

[tomzachmeier]

nearly 200 people have watched it and no one comments besides me...? That can only mean that everyone else has fully understood this insight and integrated it into their lifes... I'm impressed and delighted.

tOM

[tomzachmeier]

Den Dingen geht der Geist vorran: der Geist entscheidet

Kommt aus getruebten Geist dein Wort und dein Betragen,

So folgt dir Unheil, wie dem Zugtier folgt der Wagen.

Den Dingen geht der Geist vorran: der Geist entscheidet

Kommt aus reinem Geist dein Wort und deine Taten,

So folgt das Glueck dir nach, unfehlbar wie dein Schatten.

[tomzachmeier]

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind And trouble will follow you As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind And happiness will follow you As your shaddow, unshakable. DHAMMAPADA (translation by Thomas Byrom)

[boeranzen]

Everything that appears is your mind