නින්දේදී ඔබේ මනස යන්නේ කොහේද? | Where Does Your Mind Go When You Sleep? — Transcript

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1. 0:00The average person spends a third of their life. That means that
2. 0:06if someone lives to be 80, they spend 27 years of it in deep sleep.
3. 0:12Where do we go every night, completely disconnected from this physical world with our eyes closed?
4. 0:18We think that sleep is where the brain rests and the body rebuilds.
5. 0:24But in that silent darkness where you fall asleep, your mind is
6. 0:32creating and carrying out a universe that is much more complex than the world we are in. Have
7. 0:37you ever dreamed of walking down the streets of a completely unfamiliar city where you have never set foot in this physical world
8. 0:44? Have you ever dreamed of unfamiliar faces that
9. 0:50you have never met but that feel very close to your soul? Have
10. 0:55you ever experienced a terrible fear that you have never experienced in this life, or
11. 1:02have mysterious ancient symbols that you have never learned come to your sleep very vividly?
12. 1:10Where do these come from? Modern neuroscience tells us
13. 1:16that our brain is like a hard disk that stores only
14. 1:23what our eyes see and our ears hear from the day we are born
15. 1:28. What you see is recorded in the neurons of the brain. That is what they
16. 1:34say is your memory. So where do things that you have never experienced
17. 1:39come to your mind? On the basis of what data does your brain process those complex images and feelings?
18. 1:45In the early twentieth century, a group of psychologists in the Western world
19. 1:52devoted their entire lives to
20. 1:56solving this puzzle . Its pioneer was Simon Freud, who
21. 2:02brought a very dangerous theory about the human mind to the world.
22. 2:07He thought that our subconscious mind was just
23. 2:16a dark, stinking basement where we hid our repressed sexual desires, childhood traumas, or fears from society
24. 2:24. According to him, dreams were just a way for those repressed
25. 2:29desires to come out in disguise.
26. 2:34But Freud could not explain the enormous mysterious experiences in the human mind within the narrow framework of the house
27. 2:39. It was there that the Swedish psychologist Carl Gustav, who became
28. 2:45Freud's leading disciple,
29. 2:50completely destroyed this view of his teacher and turned Western psychology on its head
30. 2:56. He was not a doctor who stayed in a room
31. 3:01and saw patients. He traveled all over the world.
32. 3:06He had a vast knowledge of Asian yogis, African tribes, ancient chemistry
33. 3:13, and ancient myths. Yon began to
34. 3:19study the dreams and drawings of patients who came to his mental hospital
35. 3:24. There he observed a most amazing and terrifying reality
36. 3:31. They saw that they had never read an old book
37. 3:36. They had never been to another country. The symbols that normal patients and mental patients
38. 3:44see in their dreams and hallucinations are 100% similar
39. 3:50to the symbols found in the Mayans, Aztecs, and Eastern cultures
40. 3:56of 10,000 years ago . A certain mental patient
41. 4:03told Yon about a tube hanging from the sun and how to make wind from it. Later, it was discovered that the story this patient told
42. 4:09was written in the same letters in an ancient Greek manuscript written 2,000 years ago
43. 4:15. The patient had no way of reading that book
44. 4:20. Hume's observation was not accidental. He
45. 4:25realized that basic psychological
46. 4:32models such as the Wasdgut Mara and the Ouroboros
47. 4:40could be spread across time and space in the same way in cultures that had nothing to do with each other in the world. This is similar to
48. 4:46the fact that the heart and lungs of a human body are located in the same place no
49. 4:51matter where you are in the world . And the deepest structure of our minds is also the same from birth
50. 4:58. It was there that Hume revealed to the world
51. 5:05the most massive and revolutionary psychological concept that Western science had ever created
52. 5:12. He called it the collective unconscious. Or collective unconscious. He showed that your mind is
53. 5:19not a single island. Although we are in these externally different bodies,
54. 5:24we are actually far below this narrow boundary that I am talking about.
55. 5:30There is a vast invisible psychological
56. 5:36ocean that connects the minds of all mankind. Understand this correctly. Let's
57. 5:41take a very simple but profound natural analogy. When you go to the forest, do you see mushrooms sprouting from the ground
58. 5:47? To an outside observer, all those
59. 5:51mushrooms appear to be unrelated to each other.
60. 5:58They are independent things that are born and die separately. But according to modern phylogeny, if we
61. 6:04dig a few feet beneath the ground, we will see that all those mushrooms
62. 6:11are connected by a single living network, a mycelium, that stretches
63. 6:18over many square kilometers. That there is. If a tree in one place gets sick,
64. 6:23the message goes to the other person through that network immediately.
65. 6:29This is exactly what Kaya Yun said. We think that you and I live separately in this physical world like that individual mushroom
66. 6:35. But the deepest part of our subconscious
67. 6:42is connected to the past of the entire human race and the experiences of millions of generations of ours in a way that is beyond the reach of physics
68. 6:50. When we sleep , the parts of the normal brain that maintain the false center that
69. 6:54we call the "I" that makes up our reasoning stories
70. 6:59become completely silent.
71. 7:05Then our mind opens the doors of that vast collective consciousness and
72. 7:11dives into that vast ocean. We
73. 7:16dream of things we have never seen, mysterious images, and cities we have never seen because we are unknowingly touching the past memory store of the human community within that vast network
74. 7:24. This is one of the greatest and most mysterious realities discovered about
75. 7:32the human mind by Western science . But exactly 100 years ago,
76. 7:38this vast psychological network that Time saw was 100,000 times
77. 7:44deeper than he was, and was very clearly dissected
78. 7:51and shown by the Blessed One 2500 to 600 years ago. The most brilliant science of Time was able to grasp
79. 7:56only a memory of the biological evolution of this human race.
80. 8:02But the Blessed One, having gone far beyond the collective unconscious,
81. 8:07preached to the world the universal memory store that binds the entire great samsara and all the animal kingdoms together
82. 8:15. That is the Bhavanga mind, which modern science in Buddhist psychology or
83. 8:20Abhidhamma has never been able to grasp.
84. 8:28The most brilliant science of Time was able to grasp
85. 8:33only a memory of the biological evolution of this human race. What is this Bhavanga mind?
86. 8:39To understand that, we must go back to your nightly sleep.
87. 8:45When you fall into a very deep sleep at night, where do you not see any dreams, where
88. 8:51do you forget that you are someone or even a memory, where is your mind during those silent hours
89. 8:59? Who controls the rhythm of your heartbeat and breathing
90. 9:06that determines that you are not dead at this moment ? According to Abhidhamma, what
91. 9:14is maintaining your life at that moment is not the life mind that exists when we are in the moment and collide with the world
92. 9:19. Instead,
93. 9:27a stream of subtle consciousness that carries the creature from one existence to another that maintains your continuous existence.
94. 9:31At that moment, the action takes place. Over time, this collective unconscious
95. 9:37was based on the biological evolution of humans. Yun thought that
96. 9:43the memories and fears of past humans were stored in our DNA within the cells of our brains
97. 9:50. It was a physical network limited to this earth and only humans
98. 9:55. But the Blessed One
99. 9:59saw this reality in an infinitely deeper way, in a completely different and
100. 10:06universal dimension, completely different from physical matter. He taught that this Bhavaṇa mind is
101. 10:12not just a memory storehouse of one life, one generation, or one class of beings. It is a place where
102. 10:19you store the infinite experiences you have accumulated in all your lives,
103. 10:24whether you were an animal, a god, a Brahma, or
104. 10:29in parallel dimensions , in this infinite journey of samsara, where you cannot find a past
105. 10:36. This Bhavaṇa mind is a never-ending river that secretly carries the energy vibrations or karmic seeds of all the things you have done, good or bad,
106. 10:42and the ever-flowing, ever-evolving, subtle habits
107. 10:48or anusaya dhammas.
108. 10:55The Kayūs could not grasp this because Western
109. 11:02science was always trying to find consciousness inside the brain. But the mind of the world
110. 11:08is not something that is inside the brain. The brain is
111. 11:14like a temporary antenna that the mind of the world
112. 11:20has built for this lifetime to deal with this physical world . Now
113. 11:26let's go back to the biggest puzzle of psychology that we asked at the beginning. Why do we dream of faces we have never seen and cities we have never seen?
114. 11:35According to modern neuroscience, the DMMN network that creates the world when you sleep
115. 11:41is temporarily inactive. In the Abhidhamma, the great Arahant Anuruddha
116. 11:48calls this the path of the world. That is, the path of the world is broken. That is, the mind is broken and
117. 11:56the mind falls into its basic state, that is, the world. At this moment, the doors of your external
118. 12:03world are closed and the invisible doors of that infinite samsaric memory store
119. 12:10are opened very subtly. Then the silt deposited at the bottom of that Bhawanga River
120. 12:17means the powerful experiences you have had in other lives in distant samsara, the emotions you have felt
121. 12:24in certain animal kingdoms, the fear of death you have felt, and the karmic shadows you have accumulated, certain symbols.
122. 12:30In this way, the memories of this life start to bubble to the surface. Yom
123. 12:37said that Abhi is seeing memories of the ancient Mayans or Aztecs.
124. 12:44But according to Abhidhamma, what you are seeing in your eyes is not just the memories of another human being somewhere
125. 12:49. Often, what you are seeing is
126. 12:56your own past, living in another form, with another name, in another world in this infinite samsara.
127. 13:03When you dream of the streets of a city you have never been to, you feel that very familiar
128. 13:09feeling. That is a coincidence. A sudden shock from a past life that you have lived through somewhere in samsara through this Bhawanga mind
129. 13:16. You are probably walking on the streets of a city you have never been to
130. 13:22. Perhaps when you walk on the streets of real life, you feel that I have been on this street
131. 13:27before. We call that Deva in the Sanskrit language.
132. 13:33That very familiar feeling you feel when you dream like that is not a coincidence.
133. 13:39It is a shock that arises suddenly from a life you have lived somewhere in samsara through this Bhavaṅga mind
134. 13:46. Some people are afraid of heights. Some
135. 13:52are afraid of water. Some are afraid of the dark. In classical psychology, this is called phobia.
136. 13:59They try to match these with childhood events. They give each one a name. But the Bhagavad
137. 14:06Gita shows that these irrational fears and desires that do not fit into the normal world come from
138. 14:13the death shock you experienced in past lives that are deeply embedded in that Bhavaṅga mind.
139. 14:21Or we call them habit formations.
140. 14:26This is where Western psychology becomes completely helpless. The Blessed One saw
141. 14:31that the journey of samsara extends far and wide, infinitely, to the collective consciousness of time
142. 14:39. But the greatest revolution or achievement
143. 14:47in this whole story is not here.
144. 14:50Time had one goal for this network. But the Blessed One had
145. 14:57a completely different goal in mind. Then, time tried
146. 15:03to find a way to live happily as a prisoner in this vast network.
147. 15:07Did the body want everything? He wanted to
148. 15:12dive into that deep ocean of this collective unconscious, to know the fears and desires of the human race there,
149. 15:18to reconcile the shadow of the world
150. 15:25with his own mind, to understand the demons that lie beneath it, and
151. 15:31to befriend that memory.
152. 15:37He called this extremely complex process of psychology, "Eviation."
153. 15:42Time thought that by understanding the depths of that collective consciousness, man
154. 15:48could live more balancedly and happily in this world. It is like sitting inside this huge
155. 15:54prison called samsara and drawing beautiful pictures on the walls of that prison and
156. 16:00finding a way to live more happily in that prison without being afraid of the dark world.
157. 16:06But at the source of Bodhi, the Blessed One dived into the depths of this Bhavana mind.
158. 16:11What is the ultimate truth that he saw by searching through that entire
159. 16:17collective consciousness with his wisdom? He saw. No matter how transcendent this collective consciousness is,
160. 16:23no matter how vast the samsara memories stored in this Bhavana mind are, this whole existence
161. 16:29is just another illusion. No matter how happily you try to swim in it, this
162. 16:35river called Bhavana mind is just another subtle vibration that is subject to the law of cause and effect, constantly changing, impermanent,
163. 16:41without essence, and without a self.
164. 16:47Bhavana mind exists because of the two forces at the bottom of the eye: ignorance and craving.
165. 16:54If you try to swim in this ocean, if you try to be at one with your memory, you
166. 17:01will be trapped forever in that great samsara matrix of this mycelium network. Therefore,
167. 17:07the ultimate goal of the Blessed One was
168. 17:12not to live in this samsara memory storehouse. Nor was it to befriend the collective consciousness. What he did was
169. 17:19to burn to ashes with the light of the extremely sharp wisdom of insight,
170. 17:26all those seeds of karma, anusaya dharmas that we have brought from those infinite lives that
171. 17:35are hidden at the bottom of this Bhava mind. The moment that the immense light of insight falls,
172. 17:41it is not only that false center that I am talking about. Seeing that time, the collective
173. 17:45consciousness and the dark river of Bhava flowing throughout this infinite samsara are completely cut off
174. 17:51. The erasure of its basic code or sauce code,
175. 17:56which is ignorance, is what happens here.
176. 18:01At that moment, the vast web of samsara breaks down completely, leaving not a single atom
177. 18:07. All vibrations cease. That is
178. 18:11the moment of absolute stillness without any vibrations. That is what is
179. 18:16called Nirvana. Time has tried to find the secrets within these dreams
180. 18:21and understand them. But the Blessed One tried to be completely
181. 18:27immersed in the dream forever. Western psychology still teaches us today that
182. 18:33Our inner self is the prison that we live in, without fearing the dark world
183. 18:40. Buddhism teaches us not only to break down the walls of that prison. It also teaches us
184. 18:46to completely blow up its foundation and free ourselves from that entire samsara matrix and
185. 18:51become free from it forever. Both of these philosophies
186. 18:56touch the depths of the human mind. But their final destinations are as far away as heaven and earth. The decision is
187. 19:03in your hands today, at this very moment, whether you are trying to
188. 19:11sleep better in this samsara prison of thoughts or to be forever cut off from this entire prison.
189. 19:17In Western psychology, when a patient comes to us with a pressing mental problem, the psychotherapist
190. 19:25goes deep into that problem and finds its root
191. 19:32, like trying to untangle a ball of tangled thread with the dark shadows of the past .
192. 19:40But Bhaga saw that if we were to write down the memories of the infinite samsaras in the collective consciousness of this Bhavana mind
193. 19:47one by one, this entire lifetime would not be enough.
194. 19:52It would be like deliberately trying to fall
195. 19:58into a black hole that cannot even swallow light
196. 20:04. So to better understand the solution that He gave, let us
197. 20:10turn to quantum physics, the most profound dimension of modern science.
198. 20:14Quantum physics today proves to us the effect of the observer,
199. 20:19that is, when an observer
200. 20:25watches a certain wave of energy with intense attention, it instantly becomes matter.
201. 20:31Just by observing, its reality changes. The Blessed One used
202. 20:36the word sati or mindfulness for it. When great fear, anger, or great
203. 20:43desire arises in your mind, it comes from the depths of that Bhavana mind that we talked about earlier. It is
204. 20:50not just a thought. It is a huge energy shock coming from a distant samsara
205. 20:56. Usually, a human being either
206. 21:00fights with the feeling. Or he succumbs to it and acts on it. In both cases,
207. 21:05that samsara matrix becomes even stronger.
208. 21:11But what does a yogi who practices vipassana meditation do? He
209. 21:17does not fight with that feeling.
210. 21:23What he does is become an extremely sharp observer like the araquantam vidyagna. That means that there is anger, there is fear, there
211. 21:30is pain, without claiming it as mine, without any attachment or conflict,
212. 21:38he watches the shock emerging from that bhavana mind with detachment.
213. 21:44It is as if that bhavanam wave breaks in the face of that sharp observation.
214. 21:49That powerful karmic momentum that came from the bhavana mind cannot bear the light of that observer and instantly
215. 21:56breaks down, dissolves and disappears. That is the greatest
216. 22:03miracle in the universe. By doing nothing,
217. 22:08just by observing the situation, the divine karmic energies that have come over tens of thousands of lives
218. 22:14are extinguished. The body said to go into the darkness, to understand the darkness,
219. 22:19to befriend the demons in the darkness. But the Blessed One said
220. 22:24not to fight the darkness. Not to go into the darkness.
221. 22:31Just to bring the light of wisdom there. When the light is gone, we cannot even find out where the darkness has gone.
222. 22:37The Buddha does not tell us anywhere. He does not show us on a screen. Every image, every
223. 22:42face, every city is definitely a real memory of a past life. To grasp it.
224. 22:48Because standing is a picture that mixes together
225. 22:54the seeds of old karma, the memories of this moment, the fears, the desires, the dark habits of ignorance, all the hidden feelings of the day
226. 22:59. Therefore, the task of the yogi is not to believe in dreams. Only to see their nature.
227. 23:06He made a dark map and the Blessed One set fire to the roots of the darkness. Yun
228. 23:12tried to understand the cave of the mind. The Blessed One
229. 23:17broke the very illusion that I am bound to that cave. Yun's goal is to become a complete human being. The Blessed
230. 23:23One's goal is to go beyond all the limitations of a human, a god, a Brahman.
231. 23:30Some ideas of modern physics remind us that the act of observing
232. 23:35is itself very profound, and it
233. 23:42is not entirely consistent with the ideas of the seven and the seven-fold accumulation of the seven.
234. 23:48It provides a good example of how reality is revealed in a different way when we simply see things.
235. 23:55Tonight before you go to bed, sit quietly for five minutes.
236. 24:00Watch the breath coming in and out. The images that arise in the mind, memories, fear, desire, loneliness, emptiness,
237. 24:09without calling them "I", just watch like this. This is also a dharma that arises. This is also
238. 24:16a dharma that is always changing. From there, the journey of enlightenment begins.
239. 24:23Not with grand visions, but by seeing the mind arise correctly in this moment.
240. 24:29That eternal freedom is not far away for you. Then, may the blessings of the three gods be upon everyone.