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If the mind could be stopped, what would happen?

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TheEnlightenedOne
 
Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 05:47 pm
Food for thought. What happens when the mind stops?
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Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 06:33 pm
@TheEnlightenedOne,
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Food for thought. What happens when the mind stops?


lol...its comes to an halt ! Laughing
rosborne979
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 07:30 pm
@TheEnlightenedOne,
TheEnlightenedOne wrote:

Food for thought. What happens when the mind stops?

Nothing.
FBM
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 07:44 pm
I used to be a Buddhist monk. You can't completely stop all of the mind's activities, I don't think, but with training you can stop thoughts, ie, your mental dialog. It's a bit of mental gymnastics that can help you gain a more acute awareness of the nature of thoughts, thinking, emotions, etc. It can help you detach from them so that you don't get too hung up on passing thoughts and feelings. It's not for everybody and it takes time to develop the ability, but if you're curious, the only way to find out what it's like is to do it yourself. Good luck. Smile
maxdancona
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 08:23 pm
@TheEnlightenedOne,
Every mind ends up stopped.
G H
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 08:42 pm
@TheEnlightenedOne,
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What happens when the mind stops?

There would be no "next". A happening would require time, which would be absent like everything else should experience stop. One couldn't even rejoice at the discovery of "So that's what nature is like in itself, without my cognitive processes giving form to it!" Because there would be no such discovery.
JLNobody
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 09:20 pm
Perhaps mental activity stops in some kind of coma. I've practiced meditation for many years, and while "my mind" slows down considerably during the last half of a session, it never stops. I imagine that thoughts (ideas, images, and feelings) are as natural to the mind as are digestive juices to the stomach.
JLNobody
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 09:20 pm
Perhaps mental activity stops in some kind of coma. I've practiced meditation for many years, and while "my mind" slows down considerably during the last half of a session, it never stops. I imagine that thoughts (ideas, images, and feelings) are as natural to the mind as are digestive juices to the stomach.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 09:24 pm
@JLNobody,
The mind does not always stop in a coma. A man I once knew lay dying with a brain tumor. He stayed in a coma for at least a week. The way we knew his mind still worked was, when questions were asked on the TV show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, he answered.
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 09:27 pm
@edgarblythe,
So he was not in coma...
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FBM
 
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Reply Tue 3 May, 2011 09:28 pm
@edgarblythe,
Did he ask for a lifeline?
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Cyracuz
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 12:56 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
I don't understand the question.
Mind is awareness. Remember master Yoda and his many admonitions to be mindful of this and that. If we are not mindful we have little or no control of where our awareness goes, and I believe strongly that my focus (of my awareness) determines my reality.
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 05:50 am
@FBM,
Does a cat have a mind?
FBM
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 05:58 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
TheEnlightenedOne wrote:

Does a cat have a mind?


A mind to do what?
Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 05:59 am
Were there no mind, the world would continue to wend its weary way onward. Believing that the world only exists because one can perceive it is a childish conceit.
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 08:23 am
@FBM,
Does a cat have a mind to think?
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 08:24 am
@Setanta,
What is a conceit?
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TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 08:33 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
What happens when the mind comes to a halt?
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TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 08:34 am
@rosborne979,
What happens when nothing happens?
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 08:36 am
@FBM,
Where is the mind located?
 

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