The 6 Realms of Existence.

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  1. Peterness

    Peterness Member

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    Explaination of the different states of mind we can find ourselves in at any time or a description of other dimensions of hungry ghosts, gods and hell realms?

    Your view?
     
  2. knottybaja

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    the 6 realms of cyclic existance ( gods, demi-gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell-beings) manifest in us individually in 6 negative emotions: anger, greed, ignorance, jealousy, pride, and pleasurable distraction (this being the state where the other five emotions are present in equal measure and harmoniously balanced). these realms are not just emotional experiances but realms that we are born into, just as we are born into the human realm and a lion is born into the animal realm. each realm can be thought of as a continuum of experiance, the hell-being realm for instance, can be observed in wars, bigotry, racial predjudices, intolerances, etc, etc and from an individual emotion to actual realm can be considered "hell".

    this realms are not solid or distinct but are fluid and insubstantial. we have the ability for rebirth in each and more commonly, people have aspects of all these dimensions in their personality. each realm manifests in emotion. this is not to say that all emotion fits into these realms, they do not. yet these certain emotions catorgorize these dimensions of continual experiances that we face.

    as stated earlier, each realm has a primary emotion, but they also have a corresponding chakra, as well.

    Realm___________Primary Emotion__________Chakra

    God__________Pleasurable Distraction_______Crown
    Demi-God__________ Envy________________Throat
    Human____________Jealousy_______________Heart
    Animal___________Ignorance_______________Naval
    Hungry-Ghost______Greed_________________Sacral
    Hell______________Hatred_________________Root

    maybe ill write more individual descriptions later or if some other kind person would take over for me i would grately appreciate it.
     
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