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Old 8th February 2010, 10:35 AM
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As for the Monkeymind!

The Great Lord Buddha compared the mind with the charaketistics of a Monkey, jumping around, playing games with others an himself, restless always traying to get attached by something else. Well basically it's just an analogy. The Buddha often refers our mind to be like wild horses also.

Basically what's meant is the countless neverending thoughts arising, not getting focussed, beeing restless in thoughts without ending.

The Monkey mind or spirit though is different. One need to be very very focussed and one pointed minded at the very same time relaxed to get this special state of mind indeed.
Then often the restlesness heart of a Monkey is very noble and can be very useful! The heart of determination: It's a very deep determination to reach aims and objectives. One of the the Greatest heart determination examples is the Great Sage equal to Heaven.
Thank you very much Sifu for pointing this out.
In fact my quote was a bit of a joke with the ulterior motive to provoke people to think abot exactly what you have pointed out so well now...

Tank you, and see you tonight
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Old 8th February 2010, 04:35 PM
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I'd like to echo those thanks. That was a very nice post.

I've heard the term "monkey mind" being used to describe the restless, endless thoughts that can throw off one's meditation (and other things), but I've never thought about the distinction between that and what could maybe be described as the "Monkey Spirit".

No offense to any monkeys was intended!

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Old 8th February 2010, 07:00 PM
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Hanuman

Wonderful thread!

Has anybody heard or known "Hanuman"?

Thanks, Joko
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Dear Joko,
Hope you are doing well!

I have heard the name a couple of times but never got to deeper researches! maybe some others may have some interessting accounts!
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Hi

I to do not know very much, what I do remember is that Hanuman is a Hindu God, also referred to as "Son of the Wind". He is a general of, if I remember right a monkey army. As far as I can remember, there are some similarities to the Great Sage equal to Heavan, but also many differences.
Hanuman is highly related to Rama and in the Ramayana epos he's playing an important role. He is sometimes seen with ten arms and five heads of different animals. He is considered highly inteligent, meek,absolutely loyal, smart and he has superhuman powers.

I could imagine that like Buddhism has been brought to China and further developed there independently, that somehow Hanuman has influenced the development of the legends around Sun Wukong....

Thats about as much as I know
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Funny how things sometimes go;
I just drove past this building in rural switzerland this morning.
you can't see it very well on the picture but it has a stylised figure of hanuman as a logo above the lettering....
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Hmmm...

Maybe a spiritual "King Monkey" is trying to communicate with an earthly one??
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hmmmm....

Who can tell ?
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