There is a mind-door, greenish in hue, near the heart. This heart-mind seems to be the physical base of consciousness, not the brain in the cranium. When meditating, attention can be adverted to the area around the heart. There there is a mirror reflecting experience, consciousness, awareness. If the "mind" were in the brain or the head, it seems attention would be placed there to find it. But it is very much down closer to what in the West we refer to as the seat of our emotions. The Buddha did not specify a physical base for vijñāna (consciousness) or manas (in Early Buddhism). However, he seems to have been well aware of the practical application of locating this base for the sake of realizing the ultimate nature of mind-and-matter (nama-rupa), ultimate mind (a stream of cittas) and ultimate materiality (a stream of kalapas). But this is for advanced practitioners of Buddhist meditation rather than philosophers and speculators. For those, perhaps Zen no-mind would be better or the compelling mind-only (Yogachara) view.
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Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world.
Neuroscience now reveals how the flow of thoughts actually sculpts the brain. More and more, we are learning that it’s possible to strengthen positive brain states. By combining breakthroughs in science with insights from thousands of years of mindfulness (sati) practice, we too can shape our own “Buddha’s Brain” for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.
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The divine eye in Buddhism, the dibba cakkhu, is the third eye around the forehead, transcendent vision, the ability to "see" beyond the sight of our human eyes, perhaps rooted deep in the brain where another eye (replete with rods and cones) resides in the complete dark. What subtle waves, what broad spectrum photons, what light source is it responding to?
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We have been trying to tell everyone. Emptiness (sunyata) means "things are impersonal." It is a mindboggling concept, not to be fathomed by mere reasoning. The Buddha was not Descartes sitting around thinking. He sat cleaning his mind through samadhi then systematically investigated the four scaffolds or foundations of what to be mindful of: those four things assumed to be self: form, feeling, perception, consciousness. He mindfully investigated this body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects.
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How can we live in a world that makes no sense at all? How could we exist when every second of our lives is an unsolvable puzzle, and the tiny bits we do manage to recognize can’t come out?
That was the life of Russian soldier Lev Zasetsky (1920–1993), a young man who suffered a brain injury fighting in another useless war.
That was the life of Lev Zasetsky, who suffered a severe brain injury when thrown into World War II.
The 3,000-page diary he wrote following his injury became one of the most valuable and insightful texts on the study of the human brain in the history of biological science (popsci.com).
Zasetsky suffered from aphasia, a disorder or dysphasia that impairs a person’s ability to communicate or understand communication.
Zasetsky’s form of aphasia resulted in him being able to write without being able to read his own writing or understand all of what he had written.
Russian Dr. Alexander Luria, one of the Soviet Union’s most accomplished neuropsychologists, was assigned to care for Zasetsky and found that the young soldier “simply could not write and…had suddenly become illiterate.”
Dr. Luria pinpointed Zasetsky’s injury to “the second major block of the brain located in the posterior sections of the large hemispheres.”
This portion of the brain’s job is “for receiving, processing, and retaining information a person derives from the external world.”
The precise location of his shrapnel injury meant that “a very important function [had] been seriously impaired: he [could] not immediately combine his impressions into a coherent whole; his world [became] fragmented.”
That’s how the world existed for Lev Zasetsky: fragmented. But he didn’t give up. His fascinating story and undaunted attitude can inspire and reframe our modern understanding of psychology, history, language, communication, showing what the human spirit can accomplish.
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The headman (gamini) was wise to ask the Buddha to clarify and dispel doubts (Yodhājīva Sutta)
The village headman Yodhajiva went to the Buddha, bowed, sat respectfully to one side, and said: "Venerable sir, I have heard it passed down through the ancient teaching lineage of warriors that:
'When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, if others strike one down and slay one while striving and exerting in battle then, with the breakup of the body after death, one is reborn in the company of angels (devas) slain in battle.'
"What does the Blessed One say about that?"
"Enough, headman, set that question aside and do not ask it." But a second time and third time the headman Yodhajiva asked it.
"Headman, I seem to be unable to get past by saying, 'Enough, headman, set that question aside and do not ask it,' so to reply simply: When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, one's mind is already seized, debased, and misdirected by the thought, 'May those beings be struck down, slaughtered, destroyed, annihilated, and no longer exist.'
"If others then strike one down or slay one while one is striving and exerting in battle, then with the breakup of the body after death, one is reborn in a hell called the Realm of those Slain in Battle.
Oh no, what will come of ignorance and killing?
"Moreover, if one holds a view such as, 'When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, if others then strike one down or slay one while one is striving and exerting in battle, then with the breakup of the body after death, one is reborn in the company of angels slain in battle,' that is his wrong view.
"There are, I say, two destinations for a person with wrong view, either hell or the animal womb" [rebirth in one of the many hells or the super-diversified animal plane].
When this was said, the headman Yodhajiva began to sob and burst into tears.
"Headman, that is what I was unable to get by you by asking you to set that question aside and not ask it."
"But, venerable sir, I am not crying because of what the Blessed One said but rather because I have been deceived, cheated, and fooled for a long time by that ancient teaching lineage of warriors who said that" (SN 42.3).
Between and around the billions of neurons in the human brain is an equally vital scaffold, the extracellular matrix (ECM).
An interlinked net of proteins and sugars that surrounds brain cells, the ECM is more than simple structural support; changes in the ECM can regulate complex brain functions including memory, learning, and behavior.
But studies of the brain's ECM have been limited by the lack of tools to observe dynamic changes to its structure.
Now, a new genetic labeling tool developed by University of Utah Health researchers Dr. Igal Sterin, Ph.D. and Dr. Sungjin Park, Ph.D. has revealed new patterns in brain ECM in mice, including differences in the amount of matrix deposited on different types of neurons.
A major advantage of the tool is that it can detect changes in the ECM over time, giving new insights into how the brain develops.
In biology, the extracellular matrix (ECM) [1, 2] also called intercellular matrix (ICM), is a network consisting of extracellular macromolecules and minerals, such as collagen, enzymes, glycoproteins, and hydroxyapatite that provide structural and biochemical support to surrounding [brain] cells [called neurons] [3, 4, 5]. Because multicellularity evolved independently in different multicellular lineages, the composition of ECM varies between multicellular structures; however, cell adhesion, cell-to-cell communication, and differentiation are common functions of the ECM [6]. More: extracellular matrix
The new tool has two main parts -- a protein that binds to the main ingredients of the brain ECM fused to another protein that irreversibly sticks to a variety of synthetic fluorescent dyes.
When scientists introduced the tool into neurons, it bound to the surrounding matrix. They then added a fluorescent dye to make matrix structures visible.
Using this tool, the researchers were able to watch as ECM was deposited over time in cultured rodent brain cells, making out dense clusters of matrix that appeared on only certain neurons and at different times.
Fluorescent microscopy image of a section of mouse brain, where green is a conventional brain ECM marker. Magenta is the new tool developed by the researchers. Credit: The Journal of Neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0666-24.2024.
The Origins and History of Consciousness (Erich Neumann)
Is science slowly stumbling on the fact that "consciousness" is impersonal and continues after death? We wouldn't like to think so because that does not accord with what is comfortable, and science doesn't ask big questions with easy answers.
*Sarcasm* What? It's not the pinnacle of evolution and existence, the greatest thing in the universe, the end all be all proving that souls exist and are invincible and immortal?
The shocking truth (anatta) is too much to handle for most people, who invariably misinterpret it to mean that things are eternal or things are annihilated, and there's no other possibility. Imagine if both extremes in view were wrong. They are. We neither carry on through death forever, nor are we annihilated at death. Spiritists and materialists both have it wrong.
Hidden Spring (Mark Solms)
Things are dependently originated. What arises does so dependent on conditions (so they do not really arise except as an illusion with the illusory marks of permanence, fulfillment, and personality).
In fact, we find, the three opposite Marks of Existence (ti-lakkhana) are present. Ultimately, "things" that arise dependent on causes and conditions are impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal.
Brain is not base of consciousness, which pervades all things we are conscious of. Anencephaly
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Physics of Expanded Consciousness
But will science ever come to that conclusion? Not likely. The goal of science is not enlightenment and liberation from the round of rebirth and suffering. (How can something even be said to be "reborn" if it cannot, like a moving river, be said to persist unchanged for two consecutive moments? It can).
(Illuminato) Modern neuroscience suggests that we do not actually perceive reality. That is, the reality we observe is not incoming data (bottom-up processing) towards us from the outside world. Rather, it is a projection (top-down processing) going from our minds out and duping us into believing we are passive observers seeing what's real. We see what we expect to see even when it's not there. Therefore, we are projectors unconsciously projecting our implicit biases, sitting as the audience of the theater of the mind, thinking we are looking at an objective show on the screen.
CHAPTERS
00:00 What we see is not "real"
01:41 Predictive processing
05:13 Evolutionary argument
06:52 Psychological experiments
08:18 Psychedelics
The habit of predicting becomes automatic
Predictive processing states that our brain functions like a prediction machine, constantly predicting what it will observe next and only adjusting its model of the world when its predictions do not agree with the sensory input it receives.
This video tries to explain this concept as well as can be done in ten minutes.
I feel like I didn't really explain the last part about psychedelics all that well, so here is the study from which I pulled the information: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article... (Corlett et al. 2009, "From drugs to deprivation: a Bayesian framework for understanding models of psychosis").
The researchers do not directly reference psilocybin (the entheogenic compound in "magic mushrooms") however. Instead, they refer to serotonergic compounds.
Dharmic religions know: It's all an illusion
The Word of the Buddha
Maya means "illusion" in Sanskrit, not always in a negative sense of errant and misleading but also of dreamy and fantastic. We live in a fantasy, in an unreality, in a world (loka) we are projecting rather than taking in the way we think. We think we are being objective and rational, calm, cool, and collected (coherent in mind). But, in fact, we are implicitly biased, predictably irrational, uncalm, overheated, and dissolute, dispersed, and distracted. Meditation (first to calm then to develop insight) is an excellent remedy to "wake up." Enlightenment (bodhi) is waking up to reality. And what is "real"?
Oh, I misunderstood! Now I get it.
Nirvana is reality, seeing samsara for what it is and has always been reality, no longer grasping and clinging and crying about the unreal and illusory is reality. It is for the good, for freedom from all suffering, but we fear it. In our distorted view (our "perversion" or vipallasa) we take the fleeting to be permanent, the painful to hold the promise of pleasure and ultimate fulfillment, and the impersonal to be personal.
Not seeing the Three Universal Marks of Existence, we keep behaving (karmically engaging) as we do and suffering the endless consequences.
"Today, make smiling an exercise" (Thay)
When we act out of ignorance or hate/fear or craving, there's trouble ahead. We could put it behind us, but we would have to first stop, breathe, relax, and begin to mindfully see (i.e., see what really is rather than what we constantly project to be there by dispassionate and steady observation without abandoning the present moment).
Thinking goes in circles. Seeing is direct. If we just see, just watch, drop the reactions, things will begin to become clearer. Life is an illusion, but it doesn't have to be. There is "clear seeing" (vipassana) born of the Ennobling (Enlightening) Eightfold Path.
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