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20 Feb 2018    Tuesday     5th Teach Total 81

The Thoughts of the Manas

<h2 style="text-indent: 2em;">Question: Are the thoughts, ideas, and intuitions that arise when our meditative concentration (samādhi) is relatively deep still coming from the manas?</h2>

Answer: Intuition is a feeling of the manas. Thoughts that arise without your awareness belong to the manas. Thoughts that occur before the mind consciousness becomes aware of them belong to the manas. Thoughts that you cannot articulate belong to the manas. Thoughts that you cannot stop dwelling on and cannot shake off belong to the manas. Thoughts that are relatively deep and subtle belong to the manas.

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings
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