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**cialesxtr** · 07-08-2010, 09:19 PM

The outer world is quite real and possesses objective existence. The outer world is always a world apprehended by consciousness, and the type of consciousness determines the nature of the world that appears.

I think here is a very important fact. The objective existence of the world and a consciousness that is giving a particular and very often, deluded, partial and convenient "reading" of that objective existence. So we fit constantly objective facts into a personal framework of our mind in an endless attachment and aversion to those same objective facts. Thus, ending in suffering.

This essential aspect points toward mind discipline and ethical conduct. Both are intermingled. In accordance with Buddhist teachings ethical conduct do not means to behave as a "good person" but to discern between wholesome and unwholesome actions. Actions that give us mindfulness and pacefull state of mind or actions that do not. Discernment is for adults; Being good person is for children. Discernment is impossible without mind discipline and mind discipline is built through meditation and a deep commitment with ethical precepts. Meditation gives us a direct understanding of that objective existence without the delusive conditions that an untrained mind has.

07-08-2010, 09:19 PM	#4
cialesxtr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 465 Senior Member	The outer world is quite real and possesses objective existence. The outer world is always a world apprehended by consciousness, and the type of consciousness determines the nature of the world that appears. I think here is a very important fact. The objective existence of the world and a consciousness that is giving a particular and very often, deluded, partial and convenient "reading" of that objective existence. So we fit constantly objective facts into a personal framework of our mind in an endless attachment and aversion to those same objective facts. Thus, ending in suffering. This essential aspect points toward mind discipline and ethical conduct. Both are intermingled. In accordance with Buddhist teachings ethical conduct do not means to behave as a "good person" but to discern between wholesome and unwholesome actions. Actions that give us mindfulness and pacefull state of mind or actions that do not. Discernment is for adults; Being good person is for children. Discernment is impossible without mind discipline and mind discipline is built through meditation and a deep commitment with ethical precepts. Meditation gives us a direct understanding of that objective existence without the delusive conditions that an untrained mind has.
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