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Regensburg 6

Thich Nhat Hanh · November 6, 1998 · Regensburg, Germany
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This talk details the interconnectedness of seeds, consciousness, and existence, emphasizing how nurturing positive seeds like compassion and joy fosters growth, while feeding negative seeds like fear and anger makes them flourish. Seeds within consciousness continuously experience birth and death, shaping thoughts and actions. David Bohm’s implicate and explicate orders reveal everything is intertwined, dissolving fixed ideas of separation. Understanding interbeing shows interconnectedness beyond individual distinctions. Manas, influenced by habit energy and craving, creates distorted perceptions, leading to wrong cognition. Buddhism divides consciousness into eight parts, with store consciousness as the deepest level, neutral in nature, while manas arises clouded by delusion and craving, preventing perception of ultimate reality.

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