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1. 0:01Usually, if we ask someone what memory is,
2. 0:07what is the answer we get? Most people say. Memory is
3. 0:11like that computer hard disk inside our brain. Many of us
4. 0:17think of events from our childhood or
5. 0:23a trip we took many years ago. Those details
6. 0:28are carefully saved in the memory cells of our brain
7. 0:33, like a video clip or an image or a photo . Then, many people think that someday we can
8. 0:39open a folder on that computer and take that image or picture out and
9. 0:44play that old video again whenever we want
10. 0:48. But before we get to the deeper truth that we are going to talk about today, we
11. 0:55have to completely get this hard disk story out of our heads
12. 1:01because modern neuroscience has clearly proven that
13. 1:08there is no specific compartment or place in our brain where memories can be stored.
14. 1:15If we just imagine that you were walking on the beach
15. 1:20five years ago, you will remember it now. What actually
16. 1:26happens is that all the images, sounds,
17. 1:31sounds, visuals and emotions related to that experience are collected and
18. 1:38scattered in different parts of the brain. Then,
19. 1:44within a few milliseconds, all the neural networks come together and
20. 1:50put all that scattered data together and recreate it at this very moment
21. 1:55. That means
22. 1:59we need to understand that memory is not something we hear from the past
23. 2:05, it is first built instantly by our nervous system that is stimulated in the present moment
24. 2:10and is just a temporary thought in the present moment. Simply put, every time we remember something, it is
25. 2:19a new creation in our mind,
26. 2:24not a data that we have kept forever. That is why our memories change and
27. 2:29become distorted over time. Sometimes we forget. That is
28. 2:36because data that has been stored in a permanent repository cannot be like that.
29. 2:42We must first remember that the objective truth that the Abhidhamma mentions in the Buddha's teachings unfolds from the point where that scientific limit ends
30. 2:48. Then memory is
31. 2:53not a physical repository. It is a dharma that arises and dissolves moment by moment. For that, we first
32. 2:59need to understand that there is a powerful mind that is used in every mind mentioned in the Abhidhamma, the sense mind.
33. 3:06The Abhidhamma mentions 52 senses on both sides, and it mentions seven senses called the Sabba Citta Sangha
34. 3:13. One of those Sabba Citta Sangha
35. 3:17is the Sabba Citta Sangha. Then, to understand
36. 3:24the true function of this sign consciousness,
37. 3:30we have to get rid of the concept of that sign, which is memory. Sign is
38. 3:38a very subtle psychic energy that helps us identify and mark an object. If we see something blue, if we
39. 3:45see something that is a tree, if we identify it as my friend, if we identify it as my mother, if we identify it as a child, then that
40. 3:50separation and identification is done by this sign consciousness. You must have seen it, just
41. 3:55like a carpenter putting a mark on a temple before he cuts a piece of wood.
42. 4:00Abhidharma calls this the sign consciousness. But we must remember. This sign
43. 4:06arises with every mental glance, grasps that object, and ends with the mind
44. 4:12. Simply put, when you see something, the sign that arises with it
45. 4:18does not remain for the next moment. It does not get stored anywhere in the brain. It
46. 4:23is completely destroyed. It ends without a trace. Then the question arises, how
47. 4:29can we remember something that was broken in such an instant after so many years
48. 4:35? If there is no such memory in the physical brain,
49. 4:40if there is no such memory in the mental path
50. 4:45, where are all these past experiences actually stored? Therefore,
51. 4:52it is not something that can be answered by this simple thought, this is a serious philosophical puzzle.
52. 4:57Then there is the biggest weakness in our brain, which is called spatial perception
53. 5:02. Then there is some karmic code hidden in the objective consciousness through this spatial perception
54. 5:08. Just imagine that it is like there is some data that has the ability to vibrate
55. 5:16that water under still water . If we
56. 5:21think about it like this, for example, you are engaged in some work in the bedroom. You are engaged
57. 5:27. Suddenly you need scissors for that work.
58. 5:33After remembering where the scissors are, you remember the scissors in the kitchen.
59. 5:38What do you do thinking like that? You walk out of the room and through the living room into the kitchen. But
60. 5:43as soon as you enter the kitchen, you stop and think, "Why did I put this here?"
61. 5:48What are you going to get back here? Because you're like a complete blackout, you
62. 5:54don't remember what you came for. That time, you open the cupboard,
63. 5:59look on the table. You look everywhere, but the idea doesn't come.
64. 6:03Finally, you give up on that effort and come back to the bedroom. Coming to the bedroom
65. 6:09means that as soon as you open the bedroom door, you
66. 6:14go inside the room to get the scissors and put them back there. Then
67. 6:19we think that a memory is stored somewhere in this place. We think that we left here and now we
68. 6:24are used to it and we often know it. When we go back to that place, I remember that story
69. 6:28. But we don't know the scientific background. I will tell you that today. Many
70. 6:35people sometimes think that when I get to this age, I don't remember. I don't remember.
71. 6:40This is a weakness in my brain. Then, cognitive psychology and neuroscience
72. 6:45have done extensive studies on this today. Then scientists
73. 6:51introduce the word for this phenomenon that we just talked about, ECT, which means the portal effect.
74. 6:59If we talk about the main memory center behind this phenomenon, the effect of updating the location
75. 7:05, we talked about the hip campus two or three months ago when explaining the scientific background
76. 7:11of the lectures
77. 7:15. That is where this entire process takes place.
78. 7:21In that explanation, we talked about the hip campus
79. 7:28as a place where the matrix is ​​assembled. But that place is not all. Science has also identified it as
80. 7:35the main chamber that controls our spatial perception, the way we navigate within this physical world
81. 7:42. Now, if we
82. 7:48look at the example we did again from a scientific perspective, when you are in your bedroom,
83. 7:54the light in that room, the smell in that room, the furniture in that room, the way it is,
84. 8:01the distance, the color, the physical signals are all subtle signals that your hip campus is telling you
85. 8:09. Then, when you think about getting those scissors, that intention
86. 8:15doesn't just float around in empty space. What does your brain do? That intention
87. 8:22is tightly tied to the room you are in at that moment, and when you identify an intention, you
88. 8:28connect it with the environmental features, and it shows up in it
89. 8:36. Then, for this memory of scissors to be present, the framework of that room
90. 8:45must definitely exist. Now, if you take a goal of yours now, there are a lot of
91. 8:51accompanying goals in it, which we call accompanying goals
92. 8:57. But that one is the only one that we see as focused,
93. 9:02but there are a lot of accompanying goals. Then we talked about
94. 9:08the fact that there must be that frame to show that these scissors are open.
95. 9:13There must be scissors for it. There must be some signals in the room. But when you
96. 9:19leave the room and go to the kitchen and enter the kitchen,
97. 9:23it is just a frame for us. But for the brain, it is an event boundary. That
98. 9:32means when you go from one environment to a new environment, there may be a threat to that new place,
99. 9:37and the brain has to focus its full attention on that to capture new data
100. 9:45. Then it is impossible to remember another room. Because here
101. 9:51, we are talking about the kitchen of the whole place.
102. 9:54There is a smell of food in the kitchen, and the entire body is activated, etc., and
103. 9:59a complete body transformation occurs there. Then the memory of that room
104. 10:05is completely lost. Then this kind of decisiveness
105. 10:12, that is, this comes and we are a threat. A threat to the previous memory,
106. 10:17now this is happening to capture new data. At that crucial
107. 10:22moment, the brain's neural system decides that we are now in a new place and
108. 10:28we don't need the environment data. With that message, your hippocampus
109. 10:36immediately erases the memory of the room and scissors that you created in that old room. Because
110. 10:41it's hard to give it a value here. Scientifically, this is called purging.
111. 10:48Data clearing. Then you are in the middle of the kitchen and
112. 10:53you are blank, not because of anything else. Because the brain has tricked you and deliberately
113. 10:58killed your memory. Then you go back to the bedroom
114. 11:04and leave this in the middle, thinking that you don't remember what you came to find. As you leave the kitchen,
115. 11:08you come to the living room, and as you enter the living room,
116. 11:13as soon as you see the surroundings of the room, those previously received audio-visual signals
117. 11:19travel to the brain. What does the brain do when it receives that physical stimulus again? That
118. 11:25old memory that was erased is instantly recreated. It didn't even take that. A reconstruction
119. 11:32This is what you do. That's how you remember the scissors again. I don't know if it's clear. We
120. 11:38hold on to this very personal and independent memory of mine, and
121. 11:45as soon as we pass through this wooden door that is only three or four inches wide,
122. 11:51it is completely destroyed. Then
123. 11:57how can you understand how weak that memory is and whether it is a physical illusion? That's what your memory is.
124. 12:02It is not something that you have any control over. It is completely a slave to external physical space. Because where was
125. 12:09the signal that you forgot about the scissors when you went to the kitchen hidden until you came back to the room
126. 12:15? In fact, modern neuroscience does not have the final answer to this problem
127. 12:20. In fact, if we look for it, we do. They see it only as an electrochemical process
128. 12:26in the brain cells . But the Blessed One
129. 12:30has seen this entire process with his wisdom
130. 12:36and has explained it as a very deep, intricate, and complex mechanism. Then, to clearly solve this puzzle,
131. 12:40we have to take an example, the mind of the mind. The mind of the mind
132. 12:47is the subtle attitudes that are hidden in our mind due to the power
133. 12:53of karma, which we call the anusaya dharma, which is
134. 12:59an extremely subtle store of karmic information that you carry without any loss.
135. 13:06Then, when does a memory hidden inside this still river come out and
136. 13:13become an active thought and become a mental path? This is where
137. 13:18the reasons that come from the Abhidhamma come in. That is, the pratya dharma becomes important. In short,
138. 13:24the reason for a certain purpose is called arammana pratya. Relying on a strong reason
139. 13:29is called upanissaya pratya. The principles of both of these are implemented here . That is,
140. 13:34we need to understand first that the situation inside our mind of the mind does not just arise automatically
141. 13:40. For it to come out, some external
142. 13:45stimulus has to hit that Bhavana mind and make it vibrate. That is what is called Bhavana movement
143. 13:50Bhavana upade. Then we used to tell us to look at the thoughts that come to us.
144. 13:55After looking at our yoga practices, we would ask whether thoughts come to you naturally or do you
145. 14:00invite thoughts, that is, do you create thoughts with effort
146. 14:06or do thoughts just go away? Actually, thoughts are
147. 14:11things that operate only on our invitation. There is no such thing as natural coming and going.
148. 14:17We say that because of its smoothness, because of its smoothness, because of its speed,
149. 14:22we think that it comes naturally. That is why
150. 14:27we are told to go to the places called mindfulness, sati, sampajana. Now, if
151. 14:33we take a little look at that incident again from the points of Bhavana movement, Arammana, Pratya Upanissa, Pratya Bhavana mind, etc.
152. 14:38, then let's imagine that when you are in your bedroom,
153. 14:44the walls, tables, and everything in that room are in the form of a form. They
154. 14:51constantly meet your eyes, your ears. You feel them through your feelings and touch
155. 14:56. Then it is because of these external physical objects that your Bhavaṅga mind
156. 15:03is shaken. An active thought of wanting scissors is generated.
157. 15:08That memory is 100% based on the physical environment in that bedroom
158. 15:13. We must first understand that without that external environment, that thought cannot exist on its own
159. 15:20. Then we must think about
160. 15:25what really happens when you come out of the bedroom. When you enter the kitchen door
161. 15:30? Then the external environment that your eyes see, that is, the external forms, undergoes an immediate change
162. 15:36. Now the physical objects in the kitchen send a completely new data stream
163. 15:42to your brain . Then according to the Buddha's doctrine of cause and effect
164. 15:47, if the cause that requires a certain effect to occur is lost, that effect
165. 15:53should immediately be destroyed. Then, as soon as you went to the kitchen
166. 15:58, you completely lost the physical environment in that void called the Upanissa Pratya, which was holding the memory of the scissors .
167. 16:05That is why the relevant thought broke away from there and was destroyed and ended up in the middle of that kitchen, I
168. 16:11forgot this. Only that I forgot is related to the void.
169. 16:17All the recognition, sound, and emotions beyond that
170. 16:23are all built on the data of the kitchen at this time. But that oh my, I forgot
171. 16:27is the only situation related to that void
172. 16:32. Now, what do we do here when we think we have forgotten? This is
173. 16:37the Paticcha Samuppada. This is not a defect in the brain that we have caused,
174. 16:41but what happens here. This is a cognitive inhibition that occurs here
175. 16:45in a thought. Then, after that inhibition occurs, it is not a problem of the cells, this
176. 16:50is what is called Paticcha Samuppada. The fraction itself, the Paticcha Samuppada, is the whole.
177. 16:54We think that there is. We think that because of the cause, because of the cause, because of the effect,
178. 16:58we think that these are small and petty situations. But the Paticcha Samuppadaya is the complete Dhamma
179. 17:02. Whoever sees the
180. 17:06Paticcha Samuppadaya
181. 17:12sees the Dhamma, the Blessed One says. Let us
182. 17:17see how to open the Paticcha Samuppadaya even further in the future
183. 17:23. Somehow now we have forgotten this attitude of scissors, forgotten this purpose, we have
184. 17:31abandoned that idea and we are back in that
185. 17:36room. After going to that room, we have
186. 17:43that old physical environment, the old concept
187. 17:48of the upper form,
188. 17:53When you kill that image and that
189. 18:00thought and go to the kitchen, I will tell you the difference.
190. 18:04You don't remember anything on the way. I mean,
191. 18:10you don't remember these 100 things. You are going to the level where you don't see many things on that road. Because you are taking that image with you,
192. 18:14now when you go to the second road, you came to bring scissors. Then,
193. 18:18after doing this, we understand that this memory is not a state that physically remains anywhere,
194. 18:24mentally remains anywhere, but is just a collision that occurs moment by moment between the karmic energy
195. 18:30of the mind as a result of the past .
196. 18:36What we build as our past is very illusory. In reality, it ends without a trace.
197. 18:43What did not exist before arises. That is what is called the cause-effect relationship. But
198. 18:49there is also something like this. Now, if we talk about forgetting a pair of scissors, then we will talk about it next.
199. 18:55There are some people who have such a memory that even if it is a book that we know,
200. 19:02there must be people who have such a memory that when they look at a book, they remember it letter by letter and page
201. 19:06numbers . Sometimes, there
202. 19:11are these competitions that we have. In those competitions related to memory, the memories of those competitors are very strong.
203. 19:18Very intense. The way to memorize data in that memory palace is called the memory palace.
204. 19:24What do they do when a normal person tries to memorize it?
205. 19:30They put a lot of pressure on their brain, their hip campus, and try to force that information into the cells
206. 19:36. But in this technique called method flochi,
207. 19:41what they do is
208. 19:46to associate the complex data they want to remember with a physical space that they are familiar with. That is,
209. 19:52let's say in their home, let's say it is school work. If it is school work, one
210. 19:56place in the school is a classroom. Just imagine this whole classroom and
211. 20:04connect the memory of that thing with it. Let's say, for example, you
212. 20:09imagine the path to the kitchen through the front door of your house. In the meantime, you find
213. 20:13the sofa with the TV on it like a table and mentally store
214. 20:19the situations you have to memorize in extremely unusual distorted images.
215. 20:25When you need that data, all you have to do is move inside that palace from that memory,
216. 20:30move somewhere inside that house, inside the school, those thoughts
217. 20:34are placed in places. You see. Then do it here. Now we talked about
218. 20:38the weakness of spatial perception as a weapon to strengthen memory
219. 20:43. Now
220. 20:47there was a neuroscientist at the University of London named Ellen Maguire. Then
221. 20:53there was that scientific experiment in London, where they used a TAC to eliminate the TAC and did an AFM scan
222. 20:58. An ordinary person looks at a city like London, let's say
223. 21:03Sydney, America, with very busy roads and complex roads
224. 21:09. But these taxi drivers have a memory of all those roads.
225. 21:17How do they keep that memory? Then,
226. 21:22after their FS scans, they saw in their reports that
227. 21:25the back of the hip campus of these drivers has become physically larger than that of an ordinary person. New
228. 21:32nerve cells have formed as networks. This is what is called scientifically. We
229. 21:37have talked about this as neuroplasticity. Neural plasticity.
230. 21:42Then the physical apparatus called their brain
231. 21:47has been physically changed and expanded by the software called memory that they have trained
232. 21:52. Although this is called neuroplasticity, the Blessed One
233. 21:56called this mental image 2500 years ago . That means that an extremely powerful mind, or
234. 22:03meditation, or intense intention can transform the images in our physical body.
235. 22:08Create new regions. Change them. Then
236. 22:14the brains of those London drivers did not become larger through a single operation with a drug. It was simply
237. 22:19a phenomenon of expansion due to the power of the mind itself due to the fact that their own signal consciousness grasped that spatial purpose
238. 22:24. Accordingly,
239. 22:30it becomes very clear to us that memory is
240. 22:35not something that is controlled by the physical machine called the brain. If the mind wants,
241. 22:41it has the ability to change even the structure of the brain as it wants by using memory. What is actually being done
242. 22:46in that memory chain in the memory space? The information, names, and dharma that are inside us
243. 22:52are forcefully connected with the external environment and the external forms, and the Upanissa Pratya that states the Abhidhamma is artificially
244. 22:58created. Then
245. 23:03no other evidence is needed to prove that memory is just a collision of phenomena. Many people think that
246. 23:08the brain of those who have these memories is like a photograph being taken. That
247. 23:13's how he gets access to it again. But there was
248. 23:18a painter named Stephen Willshaw. A world-famous man. If he
249. 23:24was flying over London or New York in a helicopter and saw
250. 23:29tens of thousands of buildings in that city
251. 23:35, he would draw them for 30 days without missing a single window. If you look at how he draws them, that means
252. 23:40we are talking about a person with the highest level of photographic memory. Now,
253. 23:45according to modern neuroscience, this is not like a photograph being placed in his mind and he repeatedly
254. 23:51accesses it and looks at it. This is
255. 23:55called Savanna Syndrome. It is Savanna Consciousness. A rare neurological condition. Autism is often
256. 24:02called autism, a condition that comes with conditions like autism.
257. 24:06What do you think a normal human brain does?
258. 24:09It filters data coming from the outside. That means it immediately deletes unnecessary data and only takes in the necessary data
259. 24:15. But in this situation, the filter has completely collapsed. Then,
260. 24:19if we take one part of the brain, for example, the visual cortex,
261. 24:25there is an abnormal activation of the brain. Because that filter is missing. Then, if we go
262. 24:29to the Blessed One according to this mental path, and we try to match this, now what do we talk about first
263. 24:34? It is to mark a purpose. If we say it as an energy,
264. 24:39then when a normal person sees a building, he immediately remembers
265. 24:44the debt he has to pay on his house. Or some other problem. That is, his
266. 24:48active thoughts, we call the vital mind, jump out of that vision and
267. 24:54scatter to other things. The signal is activated very weakly.
268. 24:58But the mind of that listener is activated like a laser beam. With intense
269. 25:03concentration. His eye sees that city, the very signal
270. 25:08mind does not allow any other external thought and captures that image very strongly
271. 25:14. Then the vital minds in that mental path, the vital minds, the vital minds that come to the end
272. 25:19, do it without any interruption, when only those visual objects are continuously
273. 25:24absorbed into the Bhavanga mind. This is like that instantaneous worldly
274. 25:30meditation level, a huge concentration of mind that occurs.
275. 25:34But here we need to understand the reality that this extraordinary
276. 25:38photographic memory is not printed or exists in the brain as a photo,
277. 25:44as I said earlier. Then when Stephen Wilson drew that picture,
278. 25:48there was no photo in his brain. What he was doing was
279. 25:54reconstructing the data he had given to the universe at this very moment through the neural network
280. 26:00. Then, although his reconstruction speed and accuracy were much stronger than that of an ordinary person,
281. 26:05we should understand that it was not a permanent nature but
282. 26:11a string of thoughts that arose and dissolved moment by moment,
283. 26:16and that it was also a nature that belonged to the Paticcha Samuppada. Then, even though there was this kind of general memory power
284. 26:21, there was no permanent memory store like ours in that person's mind. There was no person called me
285. 26:27anywhere. It was the Paticcha Samuppada itself. Now, we need to understand
286. 26:33that there is no physical memory store anywhere. A memory
287. 26:38only arises due to a collision of the predicate. Now, in the movies you have heard, there is a French word called de vu when talking like that
288. 26:43. This has happened to all of us countless times when a previous incident reoccurs
289. 26:48. We are talking at the same time, while we are in a discussion,
290. 26:54sometimes someone says the same thing, "I
291. 27:00remember this incident like this. You were sitting there, I was sitting here. You told the same story."
292. 27:04That's what Oyaraplai did. There is a time when that happened, if you look at it,
293. 27:09according to our modern science of consciousness, psychology, there is a simple physical
294. 27:13answer here. What do they mean? This is a small delay in our brain processing data, a small
295. 27:18short circuit. It's like we black out for a moment.
296. 27:23Then when the vision we see with our eyes goes to the brain, if one eye receives data
297. 27:29a few milliseconds later than the other, the brain interprets that second data as a past memory
298. 27:35. In other words, when a current event bypasses short-term memory
299. 27:41and is written directly into long-term memory, this is what scientists call the situation that happened
300. 27:47. But if you look at this according to the mind's way of thinking in the explanation of the Buddha's Abhidhamma,
301. 27:53this
302. 27:57is not just a simple error caused by two wires in the brain shorting. This is introduced as a second karmic resonance that can see through
303. 28:04our spiritual memory behind the physical defect
304. 28:09. As we talked about earlier, the Bhavanga mind
305. 28:12is not just a thing of this soul.
306. 28:18It is a flow of information that brings together the strong mental patterns and perceptions of many past lives as subtle karmic fields
307. 28:25. Then, in a past life, you
308. 28:30experienced a great emotional experience, and that vibrational frequency
309. 28:36may remain intact within that Bhavanga mind. Accordingly, reactivation occurs.
310. 28:43Imagine that you are going to a completely new place in this life. But there is
311. 28:48a visual pattern, a building, a light, or a voice of someone that
312. 28:54instantly resonates with the frequency of the experience of the past life hidden in that Bhavanga mind.
313. 29:00Then, at that precise millisecond, when
314. 29:05the present form, we call it the beginning, matches exactly 100% with the past karmic
315. 29:12frequency, the Bhavanga mind experiences a very strong shock. You should know that our physical brain
316. 29:18cannot bear this great karmic shock. The nervous system of the brain
317. 29:23is temporarily confused. Is this the present? Is this in the past? Is this the present? Is this in the past?
318. 29:29Was I sleeping? Am I sleeping now? Was I awake? Am I awake now? Was
319. 29:34I sleeping now? There is a story about a king. Here,
320. 29:38the difficulty of not being able to separate and recognize this comes to this brain,
321. 29:44the great shock that occurs when it says that this has always been this way. Then,
322. 29:50we cannot even think about it, saying that this is just a chemical defect in the brain.
323. 29:55According to the blind objective being, the door of that great flow of existence that connects
324. 30:01us to an infinite samsara that goes beyond the limited memory that was inside our heads is an instant opening and closing. What are those
325. 30:07limited memories? I am mentioning this about those parts of the form.
326. 30:12If it is a name that flows with the form, that is what
327. 30:17I introduce as a temporary memory as a limited memory. If it is said like this, what is the knowledge that sees past lives ?
328. 30:23We can recognize this divine level as an experience of the Shudra level that is not controlled by the knowledge of the dwelling place
329. 30:28. When we understand this, it should be clear to us
330. 30:34that memory is not something limited to this lifetime and
331. 30:38that it is a karmic code that does not disappear even after
332. 30:44the brain dies . Then we now know that memory is not a physical memory in the brain.
333. 30:49We also know that it is only a momentary clash of ideas between the mind and external objects
334. 30:54. But there is one more thing we should talk about here. Dementia or
335. 30:58Alzheimer's. Materialists argue here that
336. 31:04since memories are destroyed when brain cells die, consciousness is a creation of the brain.
337. 31:08There is an absolute thing that you must understand here. That is,
338. 31:12just because the brain is destroyed, the consciousness in the mind is not destroyed at all. We
339. 31:17can understand this with a very simple analogy. Think
340. 31:22about the small radio in your home. Let's say that you hear a beautiful song from it.
341. 31:26If something happens and a circuit inside the radio speaker burns out, you
342. 31:32can no longer hear that song. Does that mean that the air waves that brought that song
343. 31:37have been completely destroyed by the atmosphere? No. Those waves
344. 31:42are still around you in the atmosphere without any loss. But the problem is not the wave.
345. 31:47It is a problem of the device that captures that wave and turns it into physical sound. That means
346. 31:52there is a problem with the radio. I said there is a frequency of 99.9 here.
347. 31:59There is a frequency of 100.1 here. But we are only tuned to 100.
348. 32:04Do you mean that is the only one tuned to, those two? No, not those two.
349. 32:08No. We are not tuned to those two. That is why our recognition mechanism
350. 32:12is the problem there. According to Abhidharma, the brain is
351. 32:17a device that connects our mind and thoughts with the physical world. Or rather, it is just a receiver. Then
352. 32:22the patient's brain cells are destroyed, which is like the radio circuit burning
353. 32:28out. Then, because the physical mechanism is inactive,
354. 32:33the past memory in his Bhavana mind collides with the external world's purpose and images and
355. 32:41turns them into active thoughts.
356. 32:45Then he cannot recognize his children. The past is completely forgotten.
357. 32:49Not because that information has been destroyed. Because the
358. 32:54nervous system that can provide a strong enough signal to read the data in the Bhavana mind
359. 32:59is no longer there. If we go even deeper, then you can imagine that the patient is
360. 33:04at the last moment of life, that is, on the deathbed, or in the Abhidharma, as we have talked
361. 33:08about, in the mind of the deceased. Just think about that exact moment of birth in the unconscious mind. You may have heard
362. 33:14about my near-death experience, the moment of death of an Alzheimer's patient who
363. 33:18had forgotten even his own name for years and whose brain had completely
364. 33:24shut down , in the last few seconds of birth in that near-death mind, and
365. 33:29I have talked about the vision of Rupava Raman that occurs there. If we think about it, this consciousness
366. 33:35should completely give up the control of that decayed physical brain.
367. 33:40The limitations imposed by the brain cells should be overcome. Then,
368. 33:45as soon as we have deactivated these five physical gates, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body,
369. 33:51the Bhavanga mind, which we thought had been forgotten for 36 years, was activated very strongly directly through the mind
370. 33:56. At that moment, no matter how rotten and decayed the brain of this Alzheimer's patient was, at that moment,
371. 34:02his mental consciousness clearly captures
372. 34:07the powerful good or bad karma that he had done in the previous life or in this life,
373. 34:12without any data loss. That is called a karmic nimitta or a
374. 34:17characteristic nimitta. There, no cell in the physical root is active
375. 34:22. That great memory storehouse is disturbed only by the resonance of karmic energy. Therefore,
376. 34:29we need to understand that death is
377. 34:34not an event like a soul or a memory box floating from one place to another. The phenomenon is that
378. 34:40at that precise moment when this hardware body is destroyed, the flow of karmic energy of the last generated mind path
379. 34:46is interrupted, the consciousness is instantly transferred to the next place of birth
380. 34:50without any physical medium, like a transmission of information.
381. 34:56Even if this brain turns gray, the continuity of the karmic code and the memory of the world is never destroyed
382. 35:02. That is what we need to understand objectively.
383. 35:07The person who takes that birth gets a completely new body. A new brain.
384. 35:12According to the science of speech, they say that there is absolutely no way that any previous life situation can be physically stored inside the cells of this new brain
385. 35:18. Then, when this is implemented,
386. 35:23the brain of an ordinary person is constantly filled with
387. 35:26physical stimuli coming from the five elements. Then, the noise coming from these external forms
388. 35:32is so strong that our mind has no room to grasp the subtle frequencies
389. 35:38of that inner, silent, and vast mind . It is
390. 35:43like sitting in the middle of a huge noisy factory and trying to listen to a subtle musical note
391. 35:48. But when a yogi meditates and
392. 35:53passes through the first, second, and third jhanas and reaches the fourth jhana, at a certain moment, the fourth
393. 35:58jhana is called the mind going to the level of detachment. It is not just a stillness of the mind
394. 36:03. It is an advanced state of neural consciousness that completely bypasses the limitations of the physical body and the brain
395. 36:10. Then, in this fourth jhana, the five realms
396. 36:16are completely closed. That means that no physical state from outside
397. 36:21enters the brain . Also, even the breath of the body has become extremely still and physical vibrations
398. 36:28have become absolutely void. As soon as that still, pure mental space was opened,
399. 36:34the mind-consciousness of the Blessed Ones
400. 36:37was completely freed from the ordinary dimension of space and became a state of being. At that time, their consciousness
401. 36:43no longer depends on the brain cells that were formed in this new life.
402. 36:48Instead, that pure mental energy is directly connected.
403. 36:55To the great mind that has been the center of their experiences throughout samsara. That is,
404. 37:01to think that there is a brain is a complete lie. It has no old data. It is a mistake.
405. 37:05Imagine. But if you connect
406. 37:11that computer to a cloud storage via a very powerful internet connection,
407. 37:16you can read all that old data from anywhere in the world without any loss. That is what
408. 37:22is called the knowledge of the house of the house. That is,
409. 37:28a very powerful door created by the mind consciousness to go to that great karmic cloud, that is, to the Bhavana mind. Then,
410. 37:34when the mind of the Blessed One resonates with the numbers of past mental paths in that Bhavana flow,
411. 37:39the past lives, the shapes of those bodies, and all the sufferings and happiness experienced in the past
412. 37:48begin to appear to His pure mind like a very vivid movie
413. 37:54. Here, by memory, we mean that the accumulation of karmic traces that have emerged in the field of information that has completely transcended physical limitations
414. 38:00. The yogi should understand that the path of karmic traces that have emerged in the field of information that has
415. 38:07completely transcended physical limitations . Then we call that supreme observer,
416. 38:12that supreme being who possesses the power of consciousness. And if you connect one more thing with this,
417. 38:18you must have heard of one called Force Mamisminderum. The false memory syndrome
418. 38:24is called by those people ifat. That is, a cognitive distortion. Usually, you think
419. 38:29that your childhood memory of school or a water you encountered
420. 38:34is 100% certain.
421. 38:39It is a reality that can never be changed. But scientific experiments have clearly proven that your
422. 38:44life is completely new, even events that have never happened and have never been experienced,
423. 38:48and you rely on them as a real past
424. 38:53. Imagine if you were a good psychologist or an external environment, you would continue to give false information that you were very scared in a big
425. 38:59crowd when you were a child.
426. 39:04Within a few days, your brain would accept the lie as an animal. That's why we say that
427. 39:09even if you are a little child, you are a fool, you are a fool, you can't do this either. No, no, no, no, it's not good to say.
428. 39:15Because that child's brain accepts it as a fact.
429. 39:20That's why it's called false memory syndrome. The problem is that
430. 39:25the environment related to that event that never happened, the faces of the people, even the fear you felt at that time,
431. 39:30are artificially generated by the brain in a very vivid way within the neural networks. Finally
432. 39:36, you seal an event that never happened as your own creature and seal it
433. 39:42in your memory. Half a century ago, this was introduced
434. 39:48as false memory syndrome, which is a signal distortion. It's called mental distortion. Its job is
435. 39:54to identify and mark a purpose. But
436. 40:00in an artificial mind that has been clouded by ignorance and desire, this signal operates in a very distorted way. It
437. 40:06is a complete misapprehension of
438. 40:11the impermanent as permanent, of the painful as happy, and of the impersonal as the self . Then
439. 40:16, every time your mind recreates the past, that distorted signal is activated
440. 40:20. It is a combination of information from outside, the opinions of others
441. 40:25, your own desires, and your fears. By combining them
442. 40:32, it creates a past that never existed. Then, through mental vipassana,
443. 40:38the mind seals the false signs given by that signal as absolute truth
444. 40:43. Then this happened to me, this is my past. This is how it happened, this is how it happened. Therefore,
445. 40:48the memory that needs to be remembered is not just a weak perception that fades away in a flash
446. 40:52. It is a dangerous illusion that constantly deceives you, infiltrating the identity that you claim to be yours
447. 40:58. How many things have really happened in the past that you embrace as yours
448. 41:04? Or how many illusions there are that are created
449. 41:09by the brain and distorted signals, no
450. 41:14scientist, at least not you,
451. 41:17can ever separate and identify. When you understand this reality,
452. 41:23the foundation you have built that my memory is my past, that illusion called "my past",
453. 41:30must explode and scatter, every particle of it. Then, is the Bhavanga mind, the karmic energy that we talked about,
454. 41:36something limited to the mind only? Are these external images, we say,
455. 41:42past experiences and memories are not written inside the physical body at all?
456. 41:49To talk about this issue, we
457. 41:53have talked about epigenetics in our last sermon.
458. 41:59Scientists believe that what is in this cell is something that can never be changed. Today,
459. 42:04the science of epigenetics has completely rejected that old view. Then,
460. 42:08science has now confirmed that the strong shocks that your ancestors experienced,
461. 42:12the wars they experienced, the terrible or unbearable pain they experienced,
462. 42:21cause subtle chemical changes in their cells. Accordingly, those experiences that were tied up in the mind
463. 42:26The traces of the gods are somehow stored in the chemical envelope around the physical DNA
464. 42:33. Accordingly, they are transmitted for many generations to come
465. 42:38. This is called NA methylation. Think of it as a physical fear in your subconscious mind
466. 42:45. Something learned in this life. If the fear
467. 42:51of death that your countless generations of people received from those animals
468. 42:57is written in the cells that make up your physical body, then that past memory
469. 43:03is hidden inside your physical cells and is likely to be activated. Then, if we look at the discovery made by these scientists,
470. 43:08in the same way that the Blessed One preached, here
471. 43:13are four main reasons that affect the emergence of such a form or physical matter: Karma,
472. 43:19Chitta, Uthu, Food, We, but here we pay special attention to the fact
473. 43:25that when it comes to karma, karma is a psychological process or a name-dharma that is stored in the subconscious mind
474. 43:31. Many people think that But
475. 43:35according to the Paramartha Dharma, a very powerful karmic energy can be either good or bad
476. 43:39. It is said that the influence of a particle on the physical body of an animal
477. 43:46is what generates these karmic forms. That is, we
478. 43:50have just talked about this through epigenetics,
479. 43:55and I will introduce the physical aspects of the karmic forms that we need to learn Abhidhamma. The karmic energy and past experiences within you
480. 44:01are not only in the mind. They are deposited as a
481. 44:08chemical seal in the muscles and nerve cells of the body
482. 44:12. Then memory is not something limited to the brain alone. It is a visible mark of our karma in the past everywhere in our body.
483. 44:21That is why I said in the last sermon that this is what we have called memory.
484. 44:27Then it becomes clear to us that the gap between biology and the accumulation of knowledge
485. 44:32has completely disappeared and memory is a universal karmic
486. 44:37mechanism that
487. 44:40we can understand more clearly. Then, when we talk about this great illusion,
488. 44:46the next big concept we need to break down is time.
489. 44:52Until recently, even scientists thought
490. 44:58that the past, present, and future were all on the same line. The past is a journey we have taken, like a village or a city, and memory is
491. 45:05like looking back at that village. But we have already broken this
492. 45:10illusion of linear time using Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and the principle of relativity
493. 45:15. But Albert Einstein showed the whole world in the Vishwanath Sivas that there is no
494. 45:21such thing as absolute time . He
495. 45:26showed that there is something relative that changes depending on the speed and gravity of the observer
496. 45:31. There is no past or present that is common to the entire universe, physically.
497. 45:39What you think of as the past can be the future for someone in another dimension. Therefore,
498. 45:44after Albert Einstein showed
499. 45:49Albert that time is just a physical illusion associated with space,
500. 45:54today science accepts it.
501. 45:59But 2500 years ago, the Blessed One preached through the doctrine of instantiation
502. 46:05that time is just a concept created by the mind and has no definite existence . This is the Uppada Tibanga, and out of the three moments
503. 46:13, only a chain of perception and perception is in operation. They say that something is born
504. 46:19for a small moment in a few billion seconds, and
505. 46:24then the moment breaks and is destroyed in a few moments. There is no permanent existence for anything in this universe beyond that
506. 46:29. Then, according to the ultimate truth,
507. 46:35there is no place that is called the past or the future. In reality, there is
508. 46:42only a present perception that arises rapidly and breaks at the same moment
509. 46:46. Everything that you think of as the past and expect as the future happens
510. 46:50only within this one very small present moment.
511. 46:55Here, on this imaginary canvas of the mind, this time is just a temporary painting that our sensory consciousness draws
512. 47:01. That is
513. 47:05why the Blessed One said, "Muncha pura, munch
514. 47:11paccato
515. 47:16majje,
516. 47:21munch bhavassa parago, pre utthava dhamma,
517. 47:25athatha
518. 47:29dhamma
519. 47:33,
520. 47:38utthava
521. 47:44If we think about it, we have to take some of the information from our previous sermons.
522. 47:51When we talk about sleep, we talk about rapid eye movement sleep
523. 47:57. In science, this means that short-term memories taken during the day
524. 48:02are consolidated into long-term memories during sleep. But
525. 48:07scientists say that dreams are
526. 48:13just a by-product of this data being processed by the brain. But if we ask why we forget it as soon as we wake up,
527. 48:17they say that it is because the chemicals
528. 48:21needed to record the memory, such as neuropeptides and serotonin
529. 48:26, are completely inactive in the brain during sleep. But we need to go beyond the materialistic explanation
530. 48:31and explain the subtle mental flow of the being from the Blessed One's sermon
531. 48:37on the very deep state of consciousness during deep sleep
532. 48:46. When re-explaining a state of consciousness, imagine that state of consciousness is a
533. 48:51dark stream that flows quietly, without taking any external purpose, only the initial purpose of this state
534. 48:57. When that pure state of consciousness is present, we call it
535. 49:04the Prabhasara citta. Then that pure state of
536. 49:08consciousness does not show us any dreams during sleep. Dreams occur
537. 49:14only in that very subtle door between deep sleep and waking. In that still
538. 49:21moment, even though all the doors to see things coming from outside are closed, our mind
539. 49:27opens very subtly. Now, even though there is no image, no sign of the external world, we call it
540. 49:32a positive image, but this mind is
541. 49:38only affected by past experiences that may be karmically hidden in that state of consciousness, such as desires, fears, and emotional shocks.
542. 49:46Then, when we are awake, the thoughts that come to our mind, we call them living minds. Because it is so
543. 49:51strong, the thoughts that arise when we dream are so weak that the Abhidharma calls this
544. 49:58a weak energy. That is why no matter how much you experience in your dream, when you wake up and
545. 50:05strong external things invade your head,
546. 50:11the dream memory recorded by those weak thoughts evaporates instantly.
547. 50:19Now, while mentioning this, I will talk about something unnecessary
548. 50:23. There is a philosophy in the West called Nostalgia.
549. 50:29What they say is that this is not useful. It is not correct, it is just
550. 50:34meaningless. They say that this physical world we live in is
551. 50:38not the absolute truth. It is a prison that the Demiurge has made for us to be thrown into it by a lower creator
552. 50:44. And they believe
553. 50:50that there is a divine spark within man. Then, during sleep or deep
554. 50:54meditation, our consciousness temporarily flies out of that prison and into the true divine dimension called Villa La Roma
555. 51:02. But the Abhidhamma of the Absolute Absolute is the ultimate being, which
556. 51:07completely destroys this view. Because according to the teachings of the Blessed One,
557. 51:12there is no such thing as an immortal soul or a divine spark in the world or in any other dimension
558. 51:18. All of that
559. 51:22is just another mental illusion that humans create for their own existence. Then it is
560. 51:26just a perception. It is like creating another illusion to make this illusion not enough. In any case, these
561. 51:32Gnostics
562. 51:36try to make the dream world real by saying that this physical world is only an illusion, but the ultimate truth is that this world you are awake in and the dream world you see in your sleep
563. 51:43are both the same illusion. Both of these are connected, and what they call the waking world
564. 51:49is just a slightly stable illusion that our mind creates with
565. 51:54the hard matter and superficial forms that are outside . The dream world
566. 52:01is nothing but an unstable illusion created by
567. 52:07the karmic imprints and mental processes in your subconscious mind, without any external support
568. 52:14. It is simply like two sides of the same coin. When you dream, it is 100%
569. 52:20real to you as long as you are inside it. The fear, sadness, and happiness that you feel there are all real. But as soon as you wake up, that great
570. 52:26truth becomes a complete lie.
571. 52:29Just like this, this dream of the second incarnation that you are currently embracing
572. 52:36as this is my body, my memory, and my past, also completely evaporates at the time of death
573. 52:41. When you wake up, the dream disappears, just as after death, your physical
574. 52:48memory of this life, my identity, disappears. After that, all that remains is that
575. 52:54karmic shock and the consciousness of the opposite sex. It directly moves to the next dimension
576. 53:01. So, a fully observant observer should understand by now
577. 53:06that memory is just a temporary construct with no permanent existence, one that creates one lie every day and another lie every night
578. 53:12. Then we will understand by now the forgetting that occurs in the Dvarachara.
579. 53:18The karmic consequences of birth, the physical limitations of Alzheimer's disease,
580. 53:25the potential for insight into past lives, the distorted nature of false memories, epigenetics,
581. 53:31physical markers, the relativity of time, and so on, have all been proven by
582. 53:36only one creature. What is it that this memory is just an illusion?
583. 53:43Therefore, from the forgetting that occurs during the door effect,
584. 53:50what are we talking about in the memory palace? What is the photo, memory, Alzheimer's, the illusion of seeing past lives,
585. 53:57epigenetics, time relativity, the dream world, etc., there is only one objective truth that can be deciphered from various facts.
586. 54:05That is, at this moment, you are my memory, my past, my
587. 54:10experience, this is me. This huge illusion that you hold on to,
588. 54:16this huge body, this vision, how weak a physical illusion it is. Memory is not a permanent person or a soul. It
589. 54:23is just a momentary electrochemical interaction between
590. 54:29the brain and the organs called cells . When the eye
591. 54:35encounters an image, recognition arises. When that purpose is lost, it disappears. As long as the reasons
592. 54:43are there, the effect arises. When the reasons are gone, the effect is destroyed.
593. 54:49This chain of thoughts that arises and disintegrates so rapidly that no one can ever find a person called me anywhere .
594. 54:55Then there is no permanent memory.
595. 55:01When you think about the past, you are not actually going back to the past. You are
596. 55:06only recreating the past in the present moment. Then the Blessed One showed us
597. 55:11true liberation. That is, creation is
598. 55:16not in preserving these memories or in living within this past.
599. 55:22True liberation is to see with wisdom that this data set that you think of as me is the result of the accumulation of
600. 55:27material things that are subject to the three characteristics of impermanence, suffering, and non-existence
601. 55:33. I pray that at the precise moment when you completely free your consciousness from this bond of attachment called the past
602. 55:38and touch that innumerable element that is not caused by causes, the
603. 55:44illusion called memory will completely collapse and you
604. 55:49will realize the ultimate truth and ultimate freedom. Free yourself from material suffering
605. 55:55and do not become a prisoner of memory and enjoy the unlimited freedom of absolute emptiness.
606. 56:02There is no other option but to first destroy this dualistic illusion of the past. Therefore,
607. 56:06everyone should strive to extinguish the fire
608. 56:11with the right kind of meditation, just as
609. 56:16a person with a burning head tries to do so. Therefore, whatever effort and
610. 56:22effort is required for that, I pray that everyone will have the wisdom to apply that effort
611. 56:28. May the blessings of the Three Gods be upon everyone. Ja.