THE NATURE OF MYO
As
Nichiren Daishoni says in On Attaining Buddhahood
What
then does myo signify? It is simply the mysterious
nature of our lives from moment to moment, which the mind cannot comprehend nor
words express.---
Life
is indeed an elusive reality that transcends both the words and concepts of
existence and nonexistence. It is neither existence nor nonexistence, yet
exhibits the qualities of both. It is the mystic entity of the Middle Way that is
the reality of all things. Myo is the name given to
the mystic nature of life, and ho to its manifestations.---
Renge, the lotus flower, symbolizes the wonder of this Law. Once you
realize that your own life is the Mystic Law, you will realize that so are the
lives of all others. That realization is the mystic kyo,
or sutra.
In
The Gift of Rice Nichiren Daishonin says
APPROACHES TO CONSCIOUSNESS
Myo encompasses all phenomena. Myo
represents the ninth Consciousness -The unchanging reality which reigns over
all life`s phenomena. It represents the fusion between
mind and body and all living beings and the Universe. It is the place of the
Full potential Self , the point of fusion between
objective and subjective, life and death , reason and intuition, particle and
wave Quantum and physics. If the scenes in the mirror are the ever changing
nature of our phenomenal lives and the potential is the evocation of these
images , then Myo is the mirror itself the integration
of the three truths and the middle Way.
The book The Field by liz McTaggart describes
the work of frontier scientists across the globe whose revolutionary findings
challenged everything we have believed about how the world works. Modern
science portrays the human being as a mechanism largely powered by chemicals
and genetic coding. According to this view, the brain is a discrete organ and
the home of consciousness. Consciousness itself is also largely driven by
chemistry - the communication of cells and the coding of DNA. The mind of man
is isolated from his body and he, in turn, is isolated from his environment.According to this view, we aren't much more
than animated machines. Modern science has reduced us to our lowest common
denominator with a desolate vision of a genetic accident powered by chemicals, divided
from its world.
A new way
of thinking
Deepak
Chopra says that we are entrained by consensual reality .
However without these preconceptions pure awareness (-the profound attribute of
Sages , Rishis and Buddhas ) . is fused with the
fundamental process of the Universe which is same mind stuff which fills our
heads. So--He sees Human beings as being able to create reality like Gods
making the unmanifest Manifest.
Ken
Wilbur as an Integral Trans personal psychologist sees the human domain of
consciousness as being intimately tied to 4 quadrants based on Interior individual,
interior collective ( Left Quadrant ) and Exterior Individual , exterior
collective ( Right Quadrant)
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