Or what is the body that is in the mind? This is called teaching for those with minds (The reading from the commentary and the meaning of the universal)
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The Shaykh : Or what is the body, or do you mean the body that is in the mind?
"This is called teaching for those with minds" What, what?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : For those with.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : The commentary.
The student: The chapter on what was spoken of... .
The Shaykh : What was spoken of, absolutely not.
The student: ... the one that exists in the minds, which is called a name... .
The Shaykh : ... Okay, meaning without the universal body or the mental universals. And as mentioned repeatedly before, the mental universal has no existence. The mental universal has no existence. An example: for instance, "animal." The word "animal" encompasses everything that has life: camels, cows, sheep, donkeys, and others. The mind may imagine that there is a general animality that unites these species. Does what the mind imagines have reality in the external world? No, absolutely not. But it is something the mind imposes; it imagines that animality encompasses these types, including the human type. It is a universal meaning, a universal meaning imposed by the mind. Otherwise, my humanity is not your humanity. But the mind imagines that there is a universal meaning shared by all humans. So, do you mean by "body" the mental body that the mind imagines, which has no reality in the external world? This is the meaning of his saying:
"It is called teaching for those with minds".
"This is called teaching for those with minds" What, what?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : For those with.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : The commentary.
The student: The chapter on what was spoken of... .
The Shaykh : What was spoken of, absolutely not.
The student: ... the one that exists in the minds, which is called a name... .
The Shaykh : ... Okay, meaning without the universal body or the mental universals. And as mentioned repeatedly before, the mental universal has no existence. The mental universal has no existence. An example: for instance, "animal." The word "animal" encompasses everything that has life: camels, cows, sheep, donkeys, and others. The mind may imagine that there is a general animality that unites these species. Does what the mind imagines have reality in the external world? No, absolutely not. But it is something the mind imposes; it imagines that animality encompasses these types, including the human type. It is a universal meaning, a universal meaning imposed by the mind. Otherwise, my humanity is not your humanity. But the mind imagines that there is a universal meaning shared by all humans. So, do you mean by "body" the mental body that the mind imagines, which has no reality in the external world? This is the meaning of his saying:
"It is called teaching for those with minds".