how does the mind shape your reality?

lipstick said:
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by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University –
A friend once told me about a teenage girl she met at the doctor’s office. The girl talked about the fact that she thought she was pregnant and was looking forward to having her baby. After the girl left the office, the nurse told my friend in confidence that she felt sorry for the teenager who’d come in right before.
Apparently, the young girl wasn’t pregnant at all, but just wanted to be. In fact, she wanted a baby so bad that her body had taken on many of the characteristics of a pregnant woman: Her menstruations had stopped, her stomach started to protrude, she got morning sickness, and she even started to lactate. Because her desire to have a child was so deeply ingrained her psyche, her body convinced itself that she was indeed going to be someone’s mother.
This story is a very telling statement about the depth and power of the human mind. If you want something bad enough, your mind will eventually make it into a reality. Whether it is a good thing or bad, when your conscious and subconscious mind obsesses over the thing you desire the most, you will often find that the contents of your mind manifest themselves into reality over time.
Never let go of your dreams, be conscious of what you allow into your mind, and be careful about the mantras you recite to yourself. All of this eventually shapes your world, your life and your entire existence.
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For me the reality is in convincing the self that I can achieve anything. Living in a culture such as ours which is filled with negative suggestions. For me through meditation the mind is tempered with the goal of a inner discipline gained by intense physical practice in the martial arts. The meditation it is meant for the mind to not over think something at the cost of implementing that something that you want to do or to jump into something prematuely especially when sparring an opponent. In other words, get a basic understanding first of a method and then put it into practice. This is applicable to all things in life.
 
Ymra said:
I understand.

I'm Nichiren Shoshu with is a sort of aggressive Evangelistic form of Buddhism. Generally speaking Buddhism don't "spread the words" Nichiren Daishonin believe otherwise that if one learns the truth, the truth should be share. Unlike Christianity Buddhism doesn't teach "I'm right and you are wrong" but Nichirn did believe in spreading the "word" (I used word for lack of a better....well, word)
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I did not know Nichiren was aggressive or Evangelistic at all. I was raised as a Baptist, but after looking constantly at the base level of my constant questions (why are things this way, what is reality, is god even really all that important, etc.), I became interested in Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Zen. It's very difficult to contemplate because language can be particularly meddlesome, especially when explaining concepts.

I've been interested in Eastern religions and philosophies since I was a kid - Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism are some of my favorites to study. But Buddhism strikes me the most as it contemplates "What is reality" instead of "Is there a god", which is practical because immediate experience is being addressed.
 
Hellspawn said:
I did not know Nichiren was aggressive or Evangelistic at all. I was raised as a Baptist, but after looking constantly at the base level of my constant questions (why are things this way, what is reality, is god even really all that important, etc.), I became interested in Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Zen. It's very difficult to contemplate because language can be particularly meddlesome, especially when explaining concepts.

I've been interested in Eastern religions and philosophies since I was a kid - Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism are some of my favorites to study. But Buddhism strikes me the most as it contemplates "What is reality" instead of "Is there a god", which is practical because immediate experience is being addressed.
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Very eloquent my friend
 
MrFantastic said:
Very eloquent my friend
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Sometimes it comes to bite me in the ass, but some people just recognize it as me just being nerdy and thorough. :cool:

I see how the mind shapes reality, but I also think it's the components of the mind that make them up - your ideas, your habits, the words you use. There's actually a communications theory called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: the theory that says that language shapes reality as well.
 
Hellspawn said:
Sometimes it comes to bite me in the ass, but some people just recognize it as me just being nerdy and thorough. :cool:

I see how the mind shapes reality, but I also think it's the components of the mind that make them up - your ideas, your habits, the words you use. There's actually a communications theory called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: the theory that says that language shapes reality as well.
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Kind of like memetics. Language and thought over time can actually influence our DNA
 
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