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Unity in the Way-Seeking Mind
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The talk explores "Way-Seeking Mind" as a pivotal concept in Buddhism, emphasizing its role in understanding individual identity and existence within a shared, interconnected process. This process involves recognizing one's individual life as inseparable from the physical world, the environment, and other sentient beings. The notion of "humanality" is introduced to illustrate how human perception creates an understanding of reality. The discourse ties this concept to Buddhist practice, specifically through chanting, which expresses the unity of individual and collective existence as inherently transformative.
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- "Way-Seeking Mind": Central to the talk, it is described as the driving force behind individual and collective recognition of interdependence in existence across all beings and the environment.
- Chanting "All Beings, Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas": Highlights the manifestation of the way-seeking mind, symbolizing the unity and shared journey from birth to death among all existences.
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As a biological species we are driven to reproduce. So our parents give us life but isn't that a kind of raw deal because they give us life but it also means we have to die. As we're suffering, we're suffering sentient beings. And since God is dead, or the intentionality of some kind of god-like intentionality is dead.
[01:04]
There's no reality. There's, the word I use, there's humanality. The world we see is the world that our sentience, our sensorium, our neurology and so forth produce for us. Yeah. So let's call it a humanality. Now the key for all of Buddhism is way-seeking mind. It's way-seeking mind that makes the difference. And way-seeking mind is a recognition that your individual life is individual, but it's also a process, a shared process, a process shared with the so-called physical world.
[02:29]
and a shared process with all the other beings. So the first sign of way-seeking mind in a particular individual is they make a decision intuitively, non-consciously, to stay alive. A kind of as I've said to someone, a vow to stay alive. And that vow to stay alive is then, assumes an inner process of knowing this process of being alive from birth until death, both as your individual instantiation of humanity, each of us is an individual instantiation of humanity.
[03:55]
And that instantiation is also inseparable from the environment and other persons and other forms of life. This is all to say that when we chant in the morning, all beings, bodhisattvas, mahasattvas, This is three words for one way seeking being. It's not three categories or three separate categories. It's the expression of way seeking mind Yes, all beings, that's the first recognition.
[05:00]
Individual being, all beings. And then the possibility of realization makes being an all being, a one being within all beings, transformative and make sense of this passage from birth to death with all beings. So when you chant all beings, bodhisattva, mahasattvas, the mahasattva is the realization of the bodhisattva path with everyone. So when we chant or say innocuously in the morning all beings, bodhisattvas, maha-sattvas, if you listen carefully, you're hearing the real deal of the way-seeking, of the path of the way-seeking mind.
[06:28]
And then there's all those who don't have a feeling for a way-seeking mind. Hey, then we've got something to do. To perform way-seeking mind for them and see if they notice
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