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About what constitutes “I”

I've heard the term Five Pillars.
Even if these elements make up “me,” where does the power to link these as “mine” come from?
For example, it's the power to make anything personal, such as “my thoughts,” “my senses,” and “my body.”
Of course, I think it can also be said that it's because of the human brain's developed brain.
So, do people with brain damage or people whose dementia progresses and they don't understand themselves are in a state close to enlightenment, so to speak?
There remains a “self” that doesn't understand oneself, so I think that's different, but how do you perceive it?

I don't understand anything scientific, but apart from the mechanism of the brain, I would like you to teach me about “the ability to personally own experiences” from a Buddhist perspective.
Thank you for your support.

4 Zen Responses

“Ignorance,” the final boss of affliction

Since there is an affliction called ignorance (ignorance), I think they become obsessed with their own existence.
Bugs and the like that don't have developed brains also have worries and try to live.
Lower organisms also have a thirst for being alive.
So I don't think I realized it (my worries disappeared) because my brain was damaged.

About “affliction disorder and intellectual disability”

Arimi-sama

Each of the five elements is color (matter/body), reception (sensory/sensory action), thought (expression/conceptual action), action (intention/volition), and consciousness (awareness/cognitive action), and our existence is made up of the five elements that are hypothetically assembled by causation (cause and condition) (hypothetical union of the five elements).

However, there is nothing that can indicate and say which of the five pillars is oneself or which is oneself, and “self” is a “sky” that does not form an entity.

“The power to link as “mine”...

Me, or mine, means “stubbornness,” and the root cause of that stubbornness is “ignorance,” as Gan Eon Kiyoshi has already said.

As a simple example, ignorance is a cancer cell, and cancer cells (ignorance) damage the function of various organs, and various painful symptoms (afflictions) occur. However, if cancer cells, which are the root of this, can be removed by direct surgery (Buddhist practice), various painful symptoms (afflictions) will not occur. However, if you don't do anything about the cause of the cancer cells (ignorance) to recur and proliferate, they will be invaded by cancer again. Examples include bad lifestyle habits (eating habits, smoking, stress, etc.). By improving the underlying factors that cause these cancer cells (further training), you will no longer get cancer, and you will be able to spend your time with peace of mind.

In this example, if cancer cells are “affliction disorder,” fundamental factors such as bad lifestyle habits are called “intellectual disability.”

“The ability to personally own experiences”...

In terms of experience and Buddhism, it is karma through action, but in terms of mental inheritance (continuum of mind), I think it can be said that it is something you own for the time being.

However, this karma is also something that is inherited due to complex causal relationships between karma and karma in various acts, and it does not exist as an entity, and it is something called “emptiness” made up of “luck.”

The state of people with dementia/dementia, or babies is “unreasonable,” and the view that it is a state of “enlightenment” does not support at all. In that case, there is simply a problem with brain function, and I believe that unless affliction disorder or intellectual disability as a deep mental inheritance problem is eradicated, it will not become a state that can be called “enlightenment.”

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

You can just think that mine isn't there

It doesn't have to be anything that's mine. (^<^)
If you look at this, (^<^) you'll see this.
Who's doing it? (^<^)
You might think ❝ I'm ❞ doing it.
It's just that I caught that function and attached a momentary flickering label called ❝ ❞.
Something like ❝ cognition ❞
Right now, the washing machine is making noise.
My whole body is making a rumbling sound of dehydration... all over my body.
It's not like I'm listening to something that the person I have acknowledged as Kuga.
They can see it.
They can hear me.
It appears that way.
without saying either one.
That is the reality, the state of law, the reality of various laws.
Humans are sorting places, and they stick their thoughts later, later, just like putting stickers on them later.
You think you've got yourself left to acknowledge yourself.
Certainly, it's probably because my sense of self and observation is actively moving.
However, that work is also futile and selfless.
That's because “I” aren't doing it.
At best, it's just that later, you just arbitrarily recognized “this is what I'm doing” and “I'm still left.”
Please be aware of that.
My “of” will be gone.
If you do that, you will be able to settle in your ideal place.
Shugo go go go... ← ah, the washing machine is still working. It's easier to pay for electricity late at night (laughs).

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