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Antaḥkaraṇa has also been called the link between the middle and higher mind, the reincarnating part of the mind. [2] The four functions of Antahkarana. In Vedāntic literature, this antaḥkaraṇa (internal organ) is organised into four parts: [3] ahaṃkāra (ego)—identifies the Atman (self) with the body as 'I'. The attachment or ...
The Captive Mind was an immediate success that brought Miłosz international renown. [9] Reviewing the work in 1953 for The New York Times upon the publication of the book’s English translation, Peter Viereck wrote “The Captive Mind is the most important soul-searching ever published about
It is evenness of mind, unshakeable freedom of mind, a state of inner equipoise that cannot be upset by gain and loss, honor and dishonor, praise and blame, pleasure and pain. Upekkha is freedom from all points of self-reference; it is indifference only to the demands of the ego-self with its craving for pleasure and position, not to the well ...
Similarly, many poems of Wallace Stevens convey a struggle with the sense of nature's significance, falling under two headings: poems in which the speaker denies that nature has meaning, only for nature to loom up by the end of the poem; and poems in which the speaker claims nature has meaning, only for that meaning to collapse by the end of ...
Throughout Pali literature, viññā ṇ a [1] can be found as one of a handful of synonyms for the mental force that animates the otherwise inert material body. [11] In a number of Pali texts though, the term has a more nuanced and context-specific (or "technical") meaning.
The term no-mind is also found in the Japanese phrase mushin no shin (無心の心), a Zen expression meaning the mind without mind. That is, a mind not fixed or occupied by thought or emotion and thus open to everything. It is translated by D.T. Suzuki as "being free from mind-attachment". [4]
The Christian New Testament makes mention of the nous or noos, generally translated in modern English as "mind", but also showing a link to God's will or law: Romans 7:23 , refers to the law ( nomos ) of God which is the law in the writer's nous , as opposed to the law of sin which is in the body.
Philosophical fiction is any fiction that devotes a significant portion of its content to the sort of questions addressed by philosophy.It might explore any facet of the human condition, including the function and role of society, the nature and motivation of human acts, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives, the role of experience or reason in the development ...