Connections
I found some episodes of the old Disney Channel show, So Weird, and the one I chose to watch was called "Tulpa"...
Inasmuch as the mind creates the world of appearances, it can create any particular object desired. The process consists of giving palpable being to a visualization, in very much the same manner as an architect gives concrete expression in three dimensions to his abstract concepts after first having given them expression in the two-dimensions of his blue-print. The Tibetans call the One Mind's concretized visualization the Khorva (Hkhorva), equivalent to the Sanskrit Sangsara; that of an incarnate deity, like the Dalai or Tashi Lama, they call a Tul-ku (Sprul-sku), and that of a magician a Tul-pa (Sprul-pa), meaning a magically produced illusion or creation.
In this quotation, "Sangsara" is an alternate English orthographic representation of "Saṃsāra."
Samsara is the endless cycle of suffering caused by birth, death and rebirth (i.e. reincarnation) within Buddhism, Bön, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Vaishnavism and other related religions.
Samsara is derived from "to flow together", to go or pass through states, to wander between life and death.
There are several Chinese translations, including 生死 shēngsǐ, "life-death", 輪迴 lúnhuí, "wheel turning", and 流轉 liúzhuǎn, "wandering".
((ooc: and I'm not the only one who noticed))
There is a man named Masaru Emoto who photographs frozen water crystals using a microscope, and has presented evidence that water exposed to different thoughts and emotions takes on different forms, symmetrical or chaotic, seemingly coinciding with positive and negative thoughts. "Up to 70% of our body is water. If thoughts can do that to water, imagine what thoughts can do to us."
Completely unconnected to this, an experiment has been done in which two people are placed in separate rooms, and at a signal unknown to one person, the other concentrates on the one, essentially wishing for their well-being. Meanwhile, sensory devices measure the overall health of the person being thought of, and have repeatedly shown that the person's health increases on basic levels while the other is thinking of them.
And this leads back to the idea mentioned in my previous post, that concentrated thought can change the physical world. It's an idea I've always been skeptical about, despite how much I desired it. I thought a world like that might exist, but not here.
Yet at the same time, I never liked scary movies, and it was not because I thought the monsters were real. It was because I had the creepy feeling that imagining the monsters too much would make them real.
Like the turn of a wheel, that brings us back to the tulpa.
I can't help but remember Mabry's words; "maybe this world is already a Dreaming."
Oh, and just as a side note, the theme song of So Weird is really, really fitting.
Inasmuch as the mind creates the world of appearances, it can create any particular object desired. The process consists of giving palpable being to a visualization, in very much the same manner as an architect gives concrete expression in three dimensions to his abstract concepts after first having given them expression in the two-dimensions of his blue-print. The Tibetans call the One Mind's concretized visualization the Khorva (Hkhorva), equivalent to the Sanskrit Sangsara; that of an incarnate deity, like the Dalai or Tashi Lama, they call a Tul-ku (Sprul-sku), and that of a magician a Tul-pa (Sprul-pa), meaning a magically produced illusion or creation.
In this quotation, "Sangsara" is an alternate English orthographic representation of "Saṃsāra."
Samsara is the endless cycle of suffering caused by birth, death and rebirth (i.e. reincarnation) within Buddhism, Bön, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Vaishnavism and other related religions.
Samsara is derived from "to flow together", to go or pass through states, to wander between life and death.
There are several Chinese translations, including 生死 shēngsǐ, "life-death", 輪迴 lúnhuí, "wheel turning", and 流轉 liúzhuǎn, "wandering".
((ooc: and I'm not the only one who noticed))
There is a man named Masaru Emoto who photographs frozen water crystals using a microscope, and has presented evidence that water exposed to different thoughts and emotions takes on different forms, symmetrical or chaotic, seemingly coinciding with positive and negative thoughts. "Up to 70% of our body is water. If thoughts can do that to water, imagine what thoughts can do to us."
Completely unconnected to this, an experiment has been done in which two people are placed in separate rooms, and at a signal unknown to one person, the other concentrates on the one, essentially wishing for their well-being. Meanwhile, sensory devices measure the overall health of the person being thought of, and have repeatedly shown that the person's health increases on basic levels while the other is thinking of them.
And this leads back to the idea mentioned in my previous post, that concentrated thought can change the physical world. It's an idea I've always been skeptical about, despite how much I desired it. I thought a world like that might exist, but not here.
Yet at the same time, I never liked scary movies, and it was not because I thought the monsters were real. It was because I had the creepy feeling that imagining the monsters too much would make them real.
Like the turn of a wheel, that brings us back to the tulpa.
I can't help but remember Mabry's words; "maybe this world is already a Dreaming."
Oh, and just as a side note, the theme song of So Weird is really, really fitting.