--- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You become > > conscious of something hiding in the unconscious and get rid of it > > thereby. You don't find this in the indian Samskar theory. > > Can you describe the Indian Samskar theory?
Impressions (contact of the senses with objects) create desires, and these desires create action, action creates karma. Karma creates rebirth, rebirth creates again new impressions and desires, thus keeping the circle alive. According to Buddhism and Hinduism you have to break this cycle of samsara somehow. Various activities are prescribed, like insight into the nature of desires, their rejection or recognition, also e.g. in the yoga-sutras a staged approach whereby negative samskaras are substituted by positive ones, like spiritual desires. The experience of God in Savikalpa Samadhi will eradicate all other desires of lesser tastes, finally you have to get rid of only one desire, in transcending the personal form of God (i.e. Nirvikalpa Samadhi). "samskara: "Impression." The imprint or traces left in the mind after an experience, whether in this or previous lives. Root impressions, especially from profound events, which mold character and guide actions. Also denotes ceremonial purification: one of a number of religious ceremonies performed at psychological moments through the Hindu's life, such as first-feeding, marriage, etc., and various ceremonies performed to restore something to its original purity." http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/virtue/SVGlossary.html "samskAra - ("activator") Habitual movement of the mind. Every action lays down a deposit in the mind, which conditions the mind and leads on to a new activity, thus keeping the doer enmeshed in the world of change." http://www.bindu.freeserve.co.uk/yoga/definitions.htm To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
