Book Title: Sramana 2007 01
Author(s): Shreeprakash Pandey, Vijay Kumar
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi

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________________ The Concept of Mind in Won-Buddhist Philosophy : 137 master of all Law by learning diligently how to use your minds"8 "Our mind realm is originally serene, peaceful, bright and clear, but the troops of selfish desire make the mind realm dark, impure, complicated, confused and almost without peace for eternity."9 The way of practicing mind for Won-Buddhist indicate in terms of "The Essentials' of daily practice as follows. 1. The mind-ground is devoid of disturbance by nature, how ever, disturbances arise in response to mental spheres; hence, let us nourish the calmness of self-nature by keeping disturbances from arising. 2. The mind-ground is devoid of delusions by nature; however, delusions arise in response to mental spheres; hence, let us brighten the wisdom of self-nature by keeping delusions from arising 3. The mind-ground is devoid of evil by nature; evil arise in response to mental spheres; hence, let us observe the precept of self-nature by keeping evil from arising. 4. Remove unbelief, greed, laziness, and delusions by means of faith, zeal, doubt, and sincerity. 5. Let us change the life of resentment into the life of gratitude. 6. Let us change the life of dependence into the life of self reliance. 7. Let us change those unwilling to learn into those who learn well. 8. Let us change those unwilling to teach into those who teach well. 9. Let us change those who do not have a public spirit into those who have it. 10 We can see that mind-field should be nourished, brighten, and observed, for the purpose of maintaining it completely. One must remove the adverse reactions (unbelief, greed, laziness, and delu

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