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Personal response to reading The Radiant Mind collection edited by Jean Smith. The Radiant Mind is a practice in walking the path of Buddha. It is the search for knowledge like walking a path in search of teachers, except that the teachers are all located in one place, The Radiant Mind. Not only is the reader privy to the history of Buddha and Buddhism, but is also provided a means to begin practicing Vietnamese Buddhism, or “the Mindful way” (39), which can be translated to mental discipline. 1 work cited. jvRadntM.rtf
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the teachers are all located in one place, The Radiant Mind. Not only is the reader privy to the history of Buddha and Buddhism, but is also provided a means
to begin practicing Vietnamese Buddhism, or "the Mindful way" (39), which can be translated to mental discipline. Mindfulness is the basis of Buddhism
and it is determined by mental discipline. It is discussed in many forms in The Radiant Mind. For example, the first precept of Buddhism, according to Sulak Sivaraksa, is the
vow not to take life. As Sivaraksa explains, this means to many that a compromise has to be made. For example, he gives the example of Alan Watts who chose
vegetarianism because cabbages cry more softly than cows (119). He also discusses the concept that the Earth provides all that human kind needs to feed itself. The only reason that
some people starve is that the distribution of food is unequal. Without saying so, this ties into the first precept that if you are overweight or waste food, you are
literally killing other humans. The student may note that it can be practiced by going a day without eating meat, replacing it with nuts and whole wheat bread.
This is only one method of discovering Mindfulness. Maurice Walsh describes the five aggregates of Mindfulness laid out by the Buddha which are extreme opposites
from which one finds the middle, are: 1. The arising of form; the disappearance of form (129). This would apply to any type
of form, from the body to a pebble or grain of sand and means that when one understands the sense of her own body, she can just as easily imagine
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