Vladimir
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Very interesting observations. Thank you, Don, for this post. I think that hearing is first then feeling and finally seeing. Feeling is the bridge between hearing and seeing.
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The comparison of the apprehensive and comprehensive cognition with the workings of the left and right brain is very relevant. I think that biologically it is partially true, but psychologically it is absolutely true and these are the two parts of our cognition. In the language of the Upanishads these are seeing and hearing, form and name, self and spirit, artha and shabda.
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Very good!
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Excellent overview!
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Yes, we speak about the same thing. I thought about the progression of the activation of faculties.
Of course, if you are a pianist playing music it must be quite different, because then all of the faculties are activated: hearing, seeing and feeling.
I am trying to envision listening to music that is unknown. It is quite simple, I hear the music, provided I don’t know it yet, and don’t have any association with, I feel it within myself and then I can see the images this feeling creates in my mind.
From hearing something unknown, to seeing it within there is a bridge through feeling, I assume. The same way from seeing to hearing, or from apprehensive to comprehensive cognition.
Or? Do you have some other thoughts?
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Profound!
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“He [man] has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason.”
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga – I: The Three Steps of Nature
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Thank you, Marco, for your remarks and observations. I agree that everyone is unique in his development and we cannot apply the same formula to everyone.
Our purpose is to understand the instruments in our toolbox, in order to learn how to more consciously and therefore more efficiently use them. And not the final prescription for all possible cases, at least not yet.
The second point of defining mind, totally agree with you. Sri Aurobindo mentions somewhere that to understand mind we need to realise the Supermind, because mind is only a shadow or rather a projection of it. Our purpose here is to understand the major characteristics of the mind in relation to other faculties of consciousness. We want to find a quintessential quality of the mental activity and concentrate on its development. Rather than roaming in the dark.
The second point needs more clarification, because on this understanding the whole IPK concept is built.
We shall talk more in our meeting.
best,
v
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Very good observations and proposal to control our mental process. Thank you, Don. There are many ways to control mind without controlling it directly: observing thoughts without identifying with them (witness of manomaya purusha), focusing on breathing (partially effective, also pranayama), concentrating on a higher or deeper presence in us (aspiring and offering oneself to the higher force), silencing the mind (meditating); mental japa ( of OM), repeating mantras in the mind, reading Savitri etc.