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Sowing Seeds In the Soil of the Mind – The Alaya
Sowing Seeds In the Soil of the Mind – The Alaya
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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
May 23, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week’sFBA Podcast, “Sowing Seeds In the Soil of the Mind – The Alaya” by Ratnaprabha. The alaya or storehouse consciousness is the Buddhist equivalent of the unconscious mind. It is like a garden, in which every experience and action sows a seed which may later sprout and create our unfolding life. This talk describes how this relates to the six sense awarenesses, the mind as a sense, and the contaminated mind which reads everything in terms of self and not self. Mindfulness finds a creative path between leaving the alaya on autopilot, and allowing the contaminated mind to interfere and fill the garden with weeds and rubbish.
Released:
May 23, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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