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original Theravada Buddhism, Everything is composed of the 5 masses mentioned below.
Rupa: Materiality/ physical objects
Vedana: Feelings/sensations
Sanna: Perception/Signs
Sankhara: Intention/ Mental formations
Vinnana: Mind
In short it everything is categorized in to two.
Nama: Mentality (above 2-5)
Rupa: Materiality (above 1)
I believe that (Shiva) is mistakenly considered among the Eleven Rudras. I believe that this is not the truth. Every stranger nowadays goes on Google or incorrectly reads scriptures and starts preaching A half-baked knowledge which is too dangerous for coming Hindu generations
Let’s now look at the Hanumanji’s Birth concept of 11 Rudras and their relation with Rudra (original) i.e., Shiva.
Shiva (Supreme Rudra) is also called ‘Sthanu’ because he is the Supreme Brahman hence there is no further space for him to move, hence he is Sthanu (Stationary).
In our Vedas, it has been stated that when Sri Vishnu incarnated as Bhagwan Ram on earth and Mahadev Shiva took the form of Hanuman to serve Bhagwan Ram in Treta Yuga.
In Puranas it is also said that Mahadev was in a dilemma as to in which form he must incarnate to serve his master Sri Ram?
It was not considered good to incarnate in the same human form as Sri Ram because a human requires to cook food, seek shelter and wear clothes and ornaments.
Mahadev Shiva, therefore decided to take a lower form of monkey who can adapt to any condition for his master Ram without any demands.
It is therefore Known that Hanuman is not a 11th Avatar of Rudra. He is incarnation of Vayu or Mukhya Prana.
Since Shiva is known as thedestructor of evil, Sri Hanuman is known as the destructor of troubles (Sankat Mochan).
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The thoughts that grow like weeds are those you come from.
The thoughts you come from exist at the center of your consciousness. The center is where you are looking from.
Jiddu Krishnamurti used to say that freedom means observing without the observer. This means to observe without the center from which you normally operate. Don't operate from any thought whatsoever. Don't choose one thought over another. Hold no opinion for or against. Don't come FROM your opinion, your ideas, your ideals, your beliefs.
The thoughts you come from make up your identity. They comprise the ego. These thoughts themselves are the sense of self: a limited form with boundaries, separate from other forms, hell-bent on surviving and becoming. As soon as you experience yourself as such a form, fear arises. This existential fear, of non-existence, is the body’s fight-flight-freeze-fawn survival responses in action.
When you don't operate from any thought, there is mental inaction. Mental inaction is freedom from the centre, you as a form, from which you normally live, thinking you are this or that.
The moment you know who you are, what you know is the centre of thought (those thoughts that grow like weeds, negative and positive) from which you now therefore operate.
The mind-made self, comprised of thoughts - those thoughts you choose and say, “This is me" - is the only problem. These thoughts create all the many and varied problems that we all experience on this Earth. The Bible calls it “the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Eating its forbidden fruit, you are fallen, experiencing compulsive thinking: thoughts that grow like weeds to preserve and perpetuate who you think you are.
The mind is innocent and no thought is a problem at all as long as the mind, and thoughts, aren't used to figure out who you are. Those thoughts that don't form you - a body-mind being of form - are all just fine, and the mind does what it is designed to do without causing any problems whatsoever.
The aberration of mind and thoughts occur as soon as you use them to know who you are, thus eating from the Tree 🌳 of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The mind-made self is a false, non-existent two-dimensional phantom constructed entirely of thought, like a photo of a sunset. Drop the self-image - forget to know who you are - and all suffering ends there and then.
Getting started is very simple: Simply shift attention from what you see (body-mind, thoughts and feelings) to you (subject). Learn to dwell in simple awareness of yourself as subject, without doing. To arrive at non-doing, you must first observe that you are doing all the time, trying to maintain your separate sense of self, your opinions and beliefs that make up the centre (a form self) from which you operate. You become aware of this center of action as soon as you start shifting attention from what you see, think, feel and experience, to you (subject).
Choosing the Tree of Life consists of not choosing. The minute you choose, you are embracing the Knowledge Tree, swallowing the cup of poison. Then you are fallen, living by the sweat of your brow, knowing suffering, life and death, becoming, old age, sickness, and thoughts that grow like weeds, negative and positive.
Lord Buddha gives a short yet very clear description of dukkha in his first discourse The Dhammachakkapavatthana Suththa (the wheel turning discourse).
He lists the following types of dukkhas in it.
1.Jathi - Birth
2.Jara - Aging
3.Vyadhi - Sickness
4.Marana - Death
5.Appiyehi Sampayoga - Union with the undesired
6.Piyehi Vippayoga - loss of desired
7. Yampichhcan na labhathi - not receiving the desired
8. Panhca upadanaskandha - taking all panchaskandha (rupa, vedana, sanna, sankhara, vignana) as I or Mine.
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