Within Chan (Zen) Buddhism we sometimes talk about about the body-mind or the heart-body-mind as being one. Among the various things this concept helps explicate, one of them seems to be this point: there’s a tight connection between what we think of as different levels/tiers/kinds of experience, and each part affects the whole and the other parts. Talking about this kind of connection as a tether, as well as the examples you give, seem helpful for better understanding the connection between the parts of ourselves we can (erroneously) think of as separate.
I propose that the connection can vary in length. For example the part of me that adheres to the rules strictly is held back when the part of me that wants to go exploring creatively is active.
“energies” and “moods” from the internal subjective experience side are usually described as being part of the subtle realm.
If I said I was in a “mood to clean up the house”. I don’t really know what I be feeling but I can imagine myself physically cleaning and also having the causal level fresh intention of “I’m making my world better just by cleaning up”
Within Chan (Zen) Buddhism we sometimes talk about about the body-mind or the heart-body-mind as being one. Among the various things this concept helps explicate, one of them seems to be this point: there’s a tight connection between what we think of as different levels/tiers/kinds of experience, and each part affects the whole and the other parts. Talking about this kind of connection as a tether, as well as the examples you give, seem helpful for better understanding the connection between the parts of ourselves we can (erroneously) think of as separate.
I propose that the connection can vary in length. For example the part of me that adheres to the rules strictly is held back when the part of me that wants to go exploring creatively is active.
That makes sense. People sometime talk in terms of “energies” or “moods” I think to express something similar but with a less precise metaphor.
“energies” and “moods” from the internal subjective experience side are usually described as being part of the subtle realm.
If I said I was in a “mood to clean up the house”. I don’t really know what I be feeling but I can imagine myself physically cleaning and also having the causal level fresh intention of “I’m making my world better just by cleaning up”