Monday, November 13, 2017

How the teachings in the Heart Sutra help us live our daily life

In the Heart sutra, the verse “perceiving that all the five aggregates are empty and transcended all suffering”(照见五蕴皆空,度一切苦厄,) serves as an overall guideline. Based on the five aggregates, it is then further analysed in terms of space and time.

When the six sensory organs are in contact with the six objects, the six kinds of consciousness serve as the agent for the biological and psychological phenomena to function.

The six sensory organ or the six sensory bases refer to they eye, ear, nose, tongue body and mind. The mind base is the mind consciousness. That is one thought is connected to the following thought which takes the previous thought as the base. 

What is this previous thought from? It happens when the sensory organs come into contact with the environment (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and idea) and generate the consciousness. 


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