New Creation (Multiplicity) Process in Samsāra
According to the Chinese philosophy, everything has both yin and yang aspects.Yin and yang are actually complementary but opposing forces interacting to form a whole greater than either separate part; thus bringing forth a dynamic system existing in harmony.The visual representation of this concept is well depicted in the Taijitu symbol or the loosely referred to as yin-yang symbol.Literally, Tai-ji means supreme ultimate – that represents an insightful reality of the dependent nature i.e. highlighting the many natural dualities such as female and male, dark and light, low and high, cold and hot, water and fire, life and death, etc.Whenever one quality reaches its peak, it will naturally begin to transform into the opposite quality.The communion of the two gives birth to things.Yin and yang transform each other – just like an undertow in the ocean, every advance is complemented by a retreat, and every rise transforms into a fall.Generally, yin is associated with water, earth, moon, femininity, night time, etc. and is characterised as slow, soft, yielding, diffuse, cold, wet, and passive.Whereas, by contrast, yang is associated with fire, sky, the sun, masculinity, day time, etc. and is characterised as fast, hard, solid, focused, hot, dry, and aggressive.The classic principle in effect: ‘Yin creates Yang and Yang activates Yin.’
If one refers to the cycle of Dependent Origination, manas that unfolds against the backdrop of consciousness (preliminary) is an architect or a designer that activates mind and body creations.Mind and body are simply two aspects of the same thing.Manas would vibrate in a certain unique frequency – a wave of collated high and low vibrations.This blueprint of vibrations would subsequently bring forth the conflation of mind and body. The principle in effect: the lower the frequency, the slower the vibration; the higher the frequency, the faster the vibration.Slower vibration would lead to the body and the sense bases formation and faster vibration would lead to the mind formation.Collectively, it brings about a new life existence with a unique individuality that would not allow the disruption by any kind of external interference; thus it maintains a self-identity.In other words, mind and body are present in every created thing as one integrated whole.Even an atom has a kind of mind that is unique or individualised.The nucleus of the atom, around which electrons vibrate in standing waves, constitutes the atom’s individuality.As a result, one atom distinguishes from another atom – just as one person is different from another person or as one thing is different from another thing.
Nevertheless, the mind is comprised with two terms i.e. prevailing conscious and subtle conscious.Both prevailing and subtle mind consciousnesses would arise in the sentient beings but for other things, merely subtle mind consciousness would arise.In addition, it is the mind, the consciousness of individuality, which holds together the atoms and molecules as one integrated body in a life time.Scientifically, the atoms are held together by covalent chemical bonds but the synergies of it would give rise to the mind, the consciousness of individuality.For general understanding, subtle mind consciousness does not consume as much energy as prevailing mind consciousness.Subtle conscious mind can process and store information without a lot of work or the intervention of prevailing conscious mind.In other words, subtle mind consciousness could operate in the absence of prevailing mind consciousness with the least of energy consumption on 24 hours/day and 365 days/year - this would mean a plenty of energy reserves for prolonging the lifespan of a body in a life time.
In fact, for over 90% of the time in a lifespan, the body is administered by subtle mind consciousness and it simply operates like a radar detector – sensing all spectrums of vibrational frequencies from the surroundings and across the time stream (past, present and future).As such, one would notice that an enlightened subtle mind consciousness would operate like a long range radar detector which is highly luminous and vigilant to any development of circumstances and surpassing time.When one has reached the maturity of a lifespan, mind and body would go through a dying process, inevitably.And the first type of consciousness to depart the body would be prevailing mind consciousness.In the sentient beings, the prevailing mind consciousness that bonds strongly the atoms and the molecules together would die out and evolve into other energies concurrently.This incidence would lead to an impulse occurrence with a demonstration of a final burst of energy nearing the death moments.Subsequently, the segregation process would conquest with most of the subtle mind consciousness departing the death body.
For an ignorant being, during a disintegration process, the prevailing conscious aggregate or so-called the ‘chain of conscious’ aggregate would die out and the force of Ignorance (an outward tendency force) would overcome the force of Awakening (an inward tendency force).The subtle conscious aggregate would then liberate into fragments.The amount of liberated fragments is very much dependent on the level of Ignorance or Awakening within the being.And for an ignorant being, the level of Ignorance would surpass the level of Awakening and this would mean the intensity of Ignorance is higher than the intensity of Awakening.A higher intensity of Ignorance would mean a higher intensity of becoming.A higher intensity of becoming would mean a higher amount of liberated fragments.On the other hand, for an awakened being, the amount of liberated fragments is much lesser than an ignorant being because there is lower intensity of Ignorance as compared with the intensity of Awakening.Also, the dispersion of liberated fragments is more confined and restricted to much fewer new individuals.
Last of all, during segregation process, sense consciousness and the lingering subtle mind consciousness would evolve into other energies concurrently with the body decomposing process.At the end of the day, the fragmented subtle mind consciousness with some retained subtle information within the subtle memory aggregates would sustain freedom of sorts and waiting for the next alignment process and the new balance phenomena to arise, thus depicting the continuous flow or repeating cycle of birth, life, death and re-birth - known as samsāra. Last edited by Buddhitakso on 2-8-2013 09:15 AM
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