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Monday, 1 August 2011

KINDS OF MINDS


Kinds of creatures and kinds of minds

Are they all of the thinking kind?

Darwinian minds are the first they say

The simplest forms; the simplest minds

Learning all, from past generations

They survive merely by genetic adaptations

Skinnerian minds still lean from real time trial and error

They learn within a lifetime, but are not yet clever

Popperian minds have conjecture and refutation

They can predict the future by empirical contemplation

Gregorian minds Learn from the past and predict the future

An evolutionary product of nature and nurture

From contemplation to self-conscious self-perception

 They are a   reverberating   loop of self-representation

And finally, the one and only enlightened kind

The venerable and undivided Buddha mind

The one beyond cognitive self-representation

The one that sees the undivided whole and its interpenetration

The one beyond delusion and egocentric illusion

The Buddha mind!! The one and only universal solution!!