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Buddhist Anatomy

1

 

The Super-Subtle Mind-Body Complex

is also the super subtle plane


Component 1

THE ANIMATING PRINCIPLE (“IS”)

  • Infinity in Time (All Times) 


Component 2

THE DIVERSIFYING PRINCIPLE (“EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE”)

  • Infinity in Space (All Identities)


Component 3

THE SOVEREIGN-ING PRINCIPLE (“DOING SOMETHING”)

  • Infinity in Knowledge (Revelation, “Omniscience”)



2

 

The Subtle Mind-Body Complex

exists inside of the subtle plane


Component 1

THE SOVEREIGN-ING PRINCIPLE (stepped down to "will”)

  • I am aware that “I am” and that “I can,” but I do not know what “I am” means.


Component 2

THE SUBTLE MIND (Time)

2a. The Past & Present: Contains All Archetypes

2b. The Past: Contains Record of All Memories

2c. The Future: Fear of Annihilation (Neuroses, “Grasping”, etc)

2d. “Beyond” Time: Capacity to Experience “Something New” (Beyond All Archetypes & All Memories)


Component 3

THE SUBTLE BODY (Space)

Architectural Plans of The Gross Body aka The Subtle Nervous System

3a. Channels

3b. Satiation Cycles (“chakras”) 

3c. “Drops” (the tangible artifacts of The Animating and Diversifying Principles)

3d. Primal Protector Energies of “Eros” (sex) and “Thanatos” (violence)



3

 

The Gross Mind-Body Complex

exists inside of the gross plane


Component 1

THE SOVEREIGN-ING PRINCIPLE (stepped down to "will”)

  • I am aware that “I am” and that “I can,” but I do not know what “I am” means.


Component 2

THE GROSS MIND (Time)

2a. The Present: Conception of Self / Archetype Embodiment

2b. The Present: Receiving Impressions; Subsequently Categorizing and Assigning Values (Basis of Emotion)

2c. The Past: Memory

2d. The Future: Imagination


Component 3

THE GROSS BODY (Space)

3a. Instrument of Instinctual Satiation Pursuit (via the 5 senses)

3b. Speech


 

Q: 

Is everything everywhere

doing something? 


A:

Yes, this is why life is fundamentally

affirming, indestructible, and malleable.


 


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