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===Mindstream=== |
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{{Short description|Buddhist concept of continuity of mind}} |
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Mindstream is a popular blogging platform that was developed by two developers, xJmd and Thbop. The platform was launched in 2023 and has since become a go-to destination for bloggers from around the world. Mindstream is known for its user-friendly interface and extensive range of features that help bloggers share their content with the world. |
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'''Mindstream''' (''citta-santāna'') in [[Buddhist philosophy]] is the moment-to-moment continuum (Sanskrit: ''saṃtāna'') of sense impressions and mental phenomena,{{sfn|Karunamuni|2015}} which is also described as continuing from one life to another.{{sfn|Bodhi|1999|p={{pn|date=November 2021}}}} |
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''{{IAST|Citta-saṃtāna}}'' (Sanskrit), literally "the stream of mind",{{sfn|Keown|2003|p=62}} is the stream of succeeding moments of mind or awareness. It provides a continuity of the personality in the absence of a permanently abiding "self" ([[Ātman (Hinduism)|ātman]]), which Buddhism denies. The mindstream provides a continuity from one life to another, akin to the flame of a candle which may be passed from one candle to another:{{sfn|Kyimo|2007|p=118}}{{sfn|Panjvani|2013|p=181}}{{efn|Compare the analogies in the [[Milinda Panha]].}} William Waldron writes that "Indian Buddhists see the 'evolution' of mind i[n] terms of the continuity of individual mind-streams from one lifetime to the next, with [[karma]] as the basic causal mechanism whereby transformations are transmitted from one life to the next."{{sfn|Waldron|n.d.}} |
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According to Waldron, "[T]he mind stream (''santāna'') increases gradually by the mental afflictions (''kleśa'') and by actions (''karma''), and goes again to the next world. In this way the circle of existence is without beginning."{{sfn|Waldron|2003|p=178}} |
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'''Blogging''': Mindstream allows users to create their own blogs and publish content on the platform. Bloggers can choose from a variety of templates to create a blog that suits their style. |
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The [[vāsanā]]s "karmic imprints" provide the karmic continuity between lives and between moments.{{sfn|Lusthaus|2002|p=473}} According to Lusthaus, these vāsanās determine how one "actually sees and experiences the world in certain ways, and one actually becomes a certain type of person, embodying certain theories which immediately shape the manner in which we experience."{{sfn|Lusthaus|2002|p=473}} |
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'''Trending and Famous''': Mindstream has a feature that allows bloggers to get their content trending and famous. This can be done by using the right keywords, posting regularly, and engaging with the community. |
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==Etymology== |
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'''Verification Checkmark''': Bloggers can also get verified on Mindstream by getting a verification checkmark. This helps to establish credibility and build trust with the community. |
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===Sanskrit=== |
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''Citta'' mean "that which is conscious".{{sfn|Anon|n.d.|loc=entry for ''citta''}} ''Citta'' has two aspects: "...Its two aspects are attending to and collecting of impressions or traces (Sanskrit: ''[[Vasanas|vāsanā]]'') cf. ''[[vijñāna]]''."{{sfn|Anon|n.d.|loc=entry for ''citta''}} ''{{IAST|Saṃtāna}}'' or ''santāna'' (Sanskrit) means "eternal", "continuum", "a series of momentary events" or "life-stream".{{sfn|Anon|n.d.|loc=entry for ''santāna''}} |
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'''User-Friendly Interface''': Mindstream has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to navigate and use. The platform is designed to be intuitive and easy to use for both beginners and experienced bloggers. |
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===Tibetan=== |
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''Citta'' is often rendered as ''sems'' in Tibetan and saṃtāna corresponds to ''rgyud''. {{IAST|Citta-saṃtāna}} is therefore rendered ''sems rgyud.'' ''Rgyud'' is the term that Tibetan translators (Tibetan: ''lotsawa'') employed to render the Sanskrit term "''[[tantra]]''".{{sfn|Berzin|n.d.}} |
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===History=== |
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''Thugs-rgyud'' is a synonym for ''sems rgyud''.{{sfn|Tsadra Foundation Research Department|2021}} |
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Mindstream was founded by xJmd and Thbop in 2023. The two developers saw a gap in the market for a blogging platform that was user-friendly and had a range of features. They worked tirelessly to develop the platform and launched it in 2019. Since then, Mindstream has grown rapidly and is now one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world. |
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===Chinese, Korean and Japanese=== |
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The Chinese equivalent of Sanskrit ''citta-saṃtāna'' and Tibetan ''sems-kyi rgyud'' ("mindstream") is ''xin xiangxu'' ({{zh|s=心相续|t=心相續|p=''xīn xiāngxù''|w=''hsin hsiang-hsü''}}). According to the ''[[Digital Dictionary of Buddhism]]'', ''xīn xiāngxù'' means "continuance of the mental stream" (from Sanskrit ''citta-saṃtāna'' or ''citta-saṃtati''), contrasted with ''wú xiàngxù'' 無相續 "no continuity of the mental stream" (from ''asaṃtāna'' or ''asaṃdhi'') and ''shì xiāngxù'' 識相續 "[[Stream of consciousness (psychology)|stream of consciousness]]" (from ''vijñāna-saṃtāna''). |
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This compound combines ''xin'' [[Wikt:心|心]] "heart; mind; thought; conscience; core" and ''xiangxu'' "succeed each other", with ''xiang'' [[Wikt:相|相]] "form, appearance, countenance, phenomenon" and ''xu'' [[Wikt:續|續]] or [[Wikt:续|续]] "continue; carry on; succeed". Thus it means "the continuum of mind and phenomena". |
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Mindstream has a thriving community of bloggers from around the world. The platform is designed to encourage interaction and engagement, and bloggers can follow each other, leave comments on posts, and share content. The community is inclusive and welcoming, and bloggers of all skill levels are encouraged to join. |
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''Xin xiangxu'' is pronounced ''sim sangsok'' in [[Korean language|Korean]] and ''shin sōzoku'' in Japanese. |
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===Conclusion=== |
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==Origins and development== |
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Mindstream is a great platform for bloggers who want to share their content with the world. With its range of features, user-friendly interface, and thriving community, it's no surprise that the platform has become so popular. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced blogger, Mindstream has everything you need to create and share great content. |
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The notion of ''citta-santāna'' developed in later Yogacara-thought, where ''citta-santāna'' replaced the notion of [[ālayavijñāna]],{{sfn|Lusthaus|2014|p=7}} the store-house consciousness in which the karmic seeds were stored. It is not a "permanent, unchanging, transmigrating entity", like the atman, but a series of momentary consciousnesses.{{sfn|Davids|1903}} |
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Lusthaus describes the development and doctrinal relationships of [[ālaya-vijñāna|the store consciousness]] (''ālaya-vijñāna'') and [[tathāgatagarbha|Buddha nature]] (''tathāgatagarbha'') in [[Yogācāra]]. To avoid reification of the ''ālaya-vijñāna'', |
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{{quote|The logico-epistemological wing in part sidestepped the critique by using the term ''citta-santāna'', "mind-stream", instead of ''ālaya-vijñāna'', for what amounted to roughly the same idea. It was easier to deny that a "stream" represented a reified self.{{sfn|Lusthaus|n.d.}} |
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[[Dharmakirti|Dharmakīrti]] (fl. 7th century) wrote a treatise on the nature of the mind stream in his ''Substantiation of Other mind streams'' (''Saṃtãnãntarasiddhi'').{{sfn|Sharma|1985}} According to Dharmakirti the mind stream was beginningless temporal sequence.{{sfn|Dunne|2004|p=1}} |
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The notion of mind stream was further developed in [[Vajrayana|Vajrayāna]] (tantric Buddhism), where "mind stream" (''sems-rgyud'') may be understood as a stream of succeeding moments,{{sfn|Wangyal|2002|p=82}} within a lifetime, but also in-between lifetimes. The 14th Dalai Lama holds it to be a continuum of consciousness, extending over succeeding lifetimes, though without a self or soul.{{sfn|Dalai Lama|1997|p={{pn|date=November 2021}}}} |
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==See also== |
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*[[Luminous mind]] |
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*[[Metempsychosis]] |
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*[[Personal identity]] |
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*[[Reincarnation]] |
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*[[Saṃsāra]] |
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*[[Subtle body]] |
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*[[Svabhava]] |
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*[[Trikaya]] |
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==Notes== |
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==References== |
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===Citations=== |
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===Works cited=== |
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* {{cite web |author=Anon |date=n.d. |title=Glossary of Buddhist and Western Terms for the Practice of Buddhist Yoga |url=http://www.dharmafellowship.org/library/essays/buddhist-glossary.htm |website=DharmaFellowship.org |publisher=Dharma Fellowship |access-date=13 December 2007}} |
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* {{cite web |last=Berzin |first=Alexander |date=n.d. |title=Making Sense of Tantra |website=StudyBuddhism.com |url=https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/vajrayana/tantra-theory/making-sense-of-tantra/the-meaning-of-tantra |access-date=29 November 2021}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Bodhi |first=Bhikkhu |year=1999 |title=The Noble Eightfold Path: The Way to the End of Suffering|url=http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/noble8path6.pdf |edition=Access to Insight |publisher=Buddhist Publication Society}} |
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* {{cite book |author=Dalai Lama |year=1997 |title=Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective |translator=Geshe Thupten Jinpa |publisher=Snow Lion Publications}} |
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* {{cite journal |last=Davids |first=C.A.F. Rhys |year=1903 |title=The Soul-Theory in Buddhism |journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |pages=587–588 |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00030902 |s2cid=162761652 |url=http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/rhy.htm |access-date=1 February 2009}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Dunne |first=John D. |title=Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy |year=2004 |publisher=Wisdom Publications |isbn=978-0-86171-184-0}} |
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* {{cite journal |last=Karunamuni |first=N.D. |title=The Five-Aggregate Model of the Mind |journal=SAGE Open |volume=5 |issue=2 |date=May 12, 2015|doi=10.1177/2158244015583860 |doi-access=free}} |
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* {{cite book |editor-last=Keown |editor-first=Damien |year=2003 |title=A Dictionary of Buddhism |place=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-860560-9}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Kyimo |year=2007 |title=The Easy Buddha |publisher=Paragon Publishing}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Lusthaus |first=Dan |author-link=Dan Lusthaus |title=Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogācāra Buddhism and the Chʼeng Wei-shih Lun |year=2002 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-7007-1186-4}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Lusthaus |first=Dan |year=2014 |title=Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun |publisher=Routledge}} |
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* {{cite web |last=Lusthaus |first=Dan |date=n.d. |title=What is and isn't Yogācāra |url=http://www.acmuller.net/yogacara/articles/intro-uni.htm |access-date=2016-01-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331102337/http://www.acmuller.net/yogacara/articles/intro-uni.htm |archive-date=31 March 2010 }} |
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* {{cite book |last=Panjvani |first=Cyrus |year=2013 |title=Buddhism: A Philosophical Approach |publisher=Broadview Press}} |
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* {{cite journal |last=Sharma |first=Ramesh Kumar |title=Dharmakirta On The Existence of Other Minds |journal=Journal of Indian Philosophy |volume=13 |year=1985 |pages=55–71|doi=10.1007/BF00208527 |s2cid=170313612 }} |
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* {{cite dictionary |author=Tsadra Foundation Research Department |date=30 May 2021 |entry=thugs rgyud |title=Dharma Dictionary |url=https://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/thugs_rgyud |access-date=29 November 2021 |publisher=Tsadra Foundation}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Waldron |first=William S. |year=2003 |chapter=Common Ground, Common Cause: Buddhism and Science on the Afflictions of Identity |editor-last=Wallace |editor-first=B. Alan |title=Buddhism & Science: Breaking New Ground |place=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=0-231-12335-3}} |
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* {{cite web |last=Waldron |first=William S. |year=n.d. |title=Buddhist Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Thinking about 'Thoughts without a Thinker' |website=PurifyMind.com |url=http://www.purifymind.com/EcologyMindSteps.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223064053/http://www.purifymind.com/EcologyMindSteps.htm |archive-date=23 December 2007 |access-date=1 November 2007 |url-status=live}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Wangyal |first=Tenzin |author-link=Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche |year=2002 |title=Healing with Form, Energy, and Light |place=Ithaca, New York |publisher=Snow Lion Publications |isbn=1-55939-176-6}} |
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{{refend}} |
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==Further reading== |
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* {{cite web |last=Waldron |first=William S. |year=1995 |url=http://www.gampoabbey.org/documents/Waldron%20HIIA-revised-b.pdf |website=GampoAbbey.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814022827/http://www.gampoabbey.org/documents/Waldron%20HIIA-revised-b.pdf |archive-date=2012-08-14 |title=How Innovative is the Ālayavijñāna? The ālayavijñāna in the context of canonical and Abhidharma vijñāna theory}} |
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* {{cite web |last=Welwood |first=John |year=2000 |title=The Play of the Mind: Form, Emptiness, and Beyond |url=http://www.purifymind.com/PlayMind.htm |access-date=13 January 2007 |website=PurifyMind.com}} |
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*[https://thubtenchodron.org/1991/05/mind-rebirth-enlightenment/ Rebirth: what happens to the body and mind at death?], a talk by [[Thubten Chodron]] |
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*[https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/biography-and-daily-life/reincarnation Reincarnation], a talk by [[14th Dalai Lama]] |
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Revision as of 12:28, 13 May 2023
Mindstream
Mindstream is a popular blogging platform that was developed by two developers, xJmd and Thbop. The platform was launched in 2023 and has since become a go-to destination for bloggers from around the world. Mindstream is known for its user-friendly interface and extensive range of features that help bloggers share their content with the world.
Features
Mindstream has a range of features that make it a great platform for bloggers. Here are some of the key features:
Blogging: Mindstream allows users to create their own blogs and publish content on the platform. Bloggers can choose from a variety of templates to create a blog that suits their style.
Trending and Famous: Mindstream has a feature that allows bloggers to get their content trending and famous. This can be done by using the right keywords, posting regularly, and engaging with the community.
Verification Checkmark: Bloggers can also get verified on Mindstream by getting a verification checkmark. This helps to establish credibility and build trust with the community.
User-Friendly Interface: Mindstream has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to navigate and use. The platform is designed to be intuitive and easy to use for both beginners and experienced bloggers.
History
Mindstream was founded by xJmd and Thbop in 2023. The two developers saw a gap in the market for a blogging platform that was user-friendly and had a range of features. They worked tirelessly to develop the platform and launched it in 2019. Since then, Mindstream has grown rapidly and is now one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world.
Community
Mindstream has a thriving community of bloggers from around the world. The platform is designed to encourage interaction and engagement, and bloggers can follow each other, leave comments on posts, and share content. The community is inclusive and welcoming, and bloggers of all skill levels are encouraged to join.
Conclusion
Mindstream is a great platform for bloggers who want to share their content with the world. With its range of features, user-friendly interface, and thriving community, it's no surprise that the platform has become so popular. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced blogger, Mindstream has everything you need to create and share great content.