Sunday, January 24, 2021

Beautiful Factors of the Mind Base

This is coming from Abhidhamma.
Hold fast and digest.
Abhidhamma is an exegesis and classic academic exercise.
It loves classification in duality but lacks practical application.
So I would simplify the factors.
Before that I will highlight the most important factor.
It is called thatramanjjhattata.
This Pali word has no synonym but the closest is equanimity.
But it has three features of impartiality, detachment and balance of mind and its accompaniments.
These three factors makes the mind uniformly happy and peaceful which all politicians of all shades lack and inculcate the same feeling of madness on the livid followers.
The beautiful mind is well balanced and devoid of prejudices.
The opposite is the recently concluded American election reporting by CNN and Fox News.
That is the nearest of the barbaric instinct of mankind presenting as lovely and favourable but quiet the opposite of reality but brings hate, disrespect and unhappiness.

1. Balanced peaceful mind is beautiful.

2. Trust and Faith in reality (politicians are vulgar) is another beautiful expression of mind.

3. Presence of mind or attention to task at the moment is a beautiful mind.

4. Fear of doing wrong

5. Absence of greed

6. Absence of hate

7. Balanced mind described above

8. Tranquility

9.  Lightness

10. Muduta or the malleability

11. Wieldiness or firmness of the mind

12.  Quality and proficient action of mind

13.  Rectitude or the uprightness of the mind

These are all shades of beautiful states of mind that need constant attention and cultivation.

One cannot achieve this by only meditation but by constant attention to vagaries of the mind and bringing it into focus, the reality at the present moment, not before, not in the future but now  now of the present now we only have to live with.


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