Delusion or Compassion? World-Making in Buddhist Philosophy, Practice & Art John Dunne Emory University, Department of Religion Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies Center for Mind, Brain and Culture Mind and Life Institute (Amherst, MA) Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (UW-Madison)
Model of Consciousness Consciousness flows through time as discrete moments… Each moment causally produces the next moment…
Model of Consciousness Since each moment produces the next, it conditions it as well… Conditioning can come in the form of karmic intentions, beliefs, emotions, expectations and so on…. Conditioning
IGNORANCE is the conditioning that distorts experience… Distorted perception arises, And that distorted intention creates a distorted world… IGNORANCE IGNORANCE Perception followed by distorted interpretation…. InterpretationIntention “Karma”
སྣང་བ་སེམས་སུ་ ངོ་འཕྲོད་