LATEST ARTICLE My latest article is on Mindfulness and encompasses some information from the other 3 Ive written plus more. This was just published in Midwest Christian Outreach Journal. Excerpt==You might notice the term monkey mind popping up here and there. In promoting Mindfulness, the thinking mind is targeted as a chattering monkey. Thoughts are the chatter, and meditation is to tame and silence this monkey mind, so that it can become what is called Buddha mind. As one source puts it: Often in meditation, that monkey mind doesnt transform into a peaceable primate, but continues to scurry about, distracting attention. Indeed, it is common for thoughts to appear to increase in intensity during concentrated meditation practice. This is either because whilst in the confines of the practice the monkey mind reacts with increased activity, or because in focused meditation thoughts are lit up and are noticed more than they normally are. 4 Thoughts are treated as an independent activity, divorced from ones true self, the Buddha self. The temporal world, including the mind, is part of an alleged rising and falling which is not substantively real. One must transcend this rising and falling through meditation practice. (Rising and falling is a term describing the Buddhist view that we are caught in the web of thinking and feeling which reinforces our identification with our mind and self, thereby continuing a false perception of reality)== christiananswersforthenewage.org/Articles_MindfulnessMonkey.html
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