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topic posted Thu, June 4, 2009 - 3:15 PM by  Holly
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I have been having a bit of trouble finding info about the meaning of shempa. I might be mis-spelling it. The concept as far as I understood it from an audio book has help me a lot and I just want to expand my understanding of the concept of shempa. It seems like in western ideology they would say a complex, but I think that the way I understand shempa, there may be some difference. Could any one clarify this for me?
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Holly
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  • Re: Question

    Sat, June 6, 2009 - 7:50 AM
    Why not just think about it as "thinking?"

    That which we call thinking is just a habit anyway.
    It's not a thing in itself, It is made up of many component
    parts and labeled "thinking." This is not just Buddism,
    but if you look into AI, robotics, and contemporary
    consciousness research-- there's so much that goes
    into a simple action. So when you read Abhidharma,
    Buddhist psychology (Lo Rig), Lam Rim or Citamatra
    and Madhyamaka philosophy there's this detailed presentation
    that explains all the component parts of what we call feelings,
    perceptions and thoughts. Then when you meditate on these
    you can see how the parts fit together to confuse us into thinking
    that we are a thinker having thoughts, that objects are just
    out there and we describe them. From Buddhist POV everything
    is basically some sort of neurotic complex that serves to prop
    up an maintain a belief in a self. Everything we are experiencing
    is habit.

    Let a Tibetan language scholar write now... anyone?

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