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Tao Stoic 10

"Master, are we not taught that the Mind manufactures the body, that Mind maintains the body, that it repairs the body, even kill it?"

"Of course. It is true. Says not the Dhammapada that 'What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and what we think today we will be tomorrow; our life is the creation of the mind?' (Dhammapada 1.1.) Indeed, this last piece in particular, is that not utter truth, a True Word? To think, to ideate, that is what goes on in the Mind, the result is we, our bodies and all the rest."

"But does that not mean all curation too?"

"It certainly does. What is it you have in 'Mind'?"

"I thought of such serious matters as asthma, and obesity, of sleep troubles, bedwetting, migraine, epilepsy, warts, phobias, stress, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and so on."

"Says not Aristotle already that the ruling of the Mind over the body is absolute? (Polit. 1.5.) Therefore, as has been proved umpteen times, since Brandis 1815, all those things are curable in a few hours' time." [241], [9], [11], [129], [148], [156]


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Ven 2005-01-24