Wednesday, June 28th, 1978

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

JUNE 28, 1978

BUDDHISM; VIJNANAS

TOPIC: Buddhism

SUBJECT: Vijnanas

SUBSUBJECT: Vesica

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Jadunath Sinha, Indian Psychology: Perception

DIAGRAMS embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1978 0628-1-AB. Vesica and Scheme of Vijnanas.

• FIGURE 1978 0628-2-AB. Vesica, Elements, Realms, and Entities.

• FIGURE 1978 0628-3-AB. Vesica Inside A Vesica.

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2022

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Alan Notes 02 1977 to 06 1979.PDF.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, all abbreviations spelled out.

1978 06/28 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Buddhism; Vijnanas

[Alan Notes 0628 1978 Begin]

6/28/78

Klista separates one consciousness (congenital bag of ignorance) from another.

Karma vijnana is individual and causes motion away from vijnana which becomes particularized as klista.

Karma = habit energy.

Klista = principle of individuality without being individual (ahamkara).

Pravritti = movement towards manifestation -- vijnana as evolving.

Nivritti = movement away from manifestation.

Revulsion = paravritti (=nirvritti), entering the stream.

Mano vijnana = reflective instinct of Jung.

[FIGURE 1978 0628-1-AB. Vesica and Scheme of Vijnanas. Indiv. = Individual; Vijn. = Vijnana. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Effects of klista are process of sensation (ascendant).

[FIGURE 1978 0628-2-AB. Vesica, Elements, Realms, and Entities. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Read Buddhist viewpoint in each chapter of Sinha -- Indian Psychology & Perception. [Note: Jadunath Sinha, Indian Psychology: Perception, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1934. In 1958, with some additional chapters added on Memory, Imagination, Thought and Language, this book was published as Indian Psychology: Cognition, Volume 1.]

Vesica as we know it is actually on bottom (7th) level:

[FIGURE 1978 0628-3-AB. Vesica Inside A Vesica. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

[Alan Notes 0628 1978 End]