PART 2. PRIME SIGNALS OF THE AFFERENT PATH

        PART 2. AFFERENT PATH SIGNALS

Whenever there is an irritation of the apparent system from the apparent external world two sets of signals are sent to the brain.

                                                    RIGHT HEMISPHERE 

Two distinct signals are sent to the right hemisphere, where they intersect with the "Uncarved Wood". These signals are without particular content. These two signals howevwr areimportant as they signal "Awareness is in operation" and thus Life and "Minfulness of detail is available":

1. Life Qi  - Pure Awareness, 觉悟, juéwù, (a component of Awakening).

This Pure Awareness which is sent to the right hemisphere is itself a carrier of three elements of information:

                            The fount of No Life, the Void

                            The Spark of Life, in and of Itself

                             The Presence of Self Life without content

2. Operation Qi - Pure Mindfulness - 走心 zǒuxīn, meaning "to move the true mind" [heart]), which is divided into three operations, each of which has three information sets:

1) Function, 用, yòng; 

                         The presence of Life Force Function, without content

                         Mind-moment changes

                         The presence of Being as Function

2) Essence, 体, tǐ;  

                         The presence of the operation six sense doors, without content

                         Mind-moment changes

                         The presence of Observing as the sixth door

3) Undifferentiated Form, 形态 不  分辨, xíngtài bù fēnbiàn.

                          The Presence of Undifferentiated Form

                          Mind-moment Changes

                          The Presence of Clear Comprehension for Forms

Each of these signals of Pure Mindfulness are sent to the right hemisphere

                                                            LEFT HEMISPHERE 

You will remember that a signal arising then from  Bù zhuó, 不斫, Uncarved Wood  

goes through various transformations and is sent to the left hemisphere processes 

that is the stream of particularity- This straeam also has the vehicle Zhen qi, 真炁 running through all operations.

         Zhuājǐn, 抓紧   Attention

 Duìshàng, 对上, Sensation

 Gǎnqíng, 感情, Discrimination

  Běntǐ, 本体, Perception

  Po, 魄 (Cognitive Consciousness)

                                Thus generating finer operating tools for Cognition

 The Attention,  Zhuājǐn, 抓紧.has the function of Grasping Firmly. It consists of a series of operations which are unconscious:

                                                                  Repose

                                                                  Alertion

                                                                  Direction to the Irritation

                                                                  Capture of the Irritation

                                                                  One-Pointedness

The Sensation, Duìshàng, 对上, has the function of Bringing into Contact and it consists simply in:

                                             Recognizing the irritation as new or old.

The Discrimination, Gǎnqíng, 感情, has the function of Approach / Avoidance and consists in the simple operation of directing :

                                                     Approach with the experience of Affect

                                                      Neutrality with the experience of Equanimity

                                                      Avoidance with the experience of Disaffect

The Perception, Běntǐ, 本体, here is a mental operation of Naming Forms. It  uses the extracted Form from Clear Comprehension and One - Pointedness and on the basis of a best fit appends a name or names to the irritation. 

Cognition, Po, 魄 (Cognitive Consciousness), uses all this information extracting associations from Memory in order to generate a correct and adequate response.

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