How are the various impulses stored in the mind and how do they arise?
It is a bit complex. We act in a certain way, for example, we smoke a cigarette. Because there is some energy involved in smoking a cigarette, that action acts as a potential or force to smoke another one. There is a gross energy, which ends when an action ends, but there is also a subtle energy, which is the potential energy to repeat the action. That subtle energy of the potential to smoke is carried along with the very subtlest energy that accompanies the very subtlest mind that goes from life to life. In the simplest terms, the subtlest mind refers to the subtlest level of the activity of clarity and awareness, while the subtlest energy refers to the very subtle life-supporting energy that supports this activity. Together, they constitute what we may call “the spark of life.” They are what go from one lifetime to the next. Karmic potentials are carried together with the spark of life. Tendencies and habits are carried along also, but they are not physical. What is a habit? For exam
When you say impulses I assume you mean the biological processes of desire, affect or emotion, or maybe you’re asking about our volition and will. Then again you could be asking about cognitive or intellectual processes… Generally, I’d define impulses as the spontaneous expression of our being, of our intrinsic human nature. There are many levels we could look at this question: I’ll give you a quick overview, neurons and synapses form associations to other neurons and synapses creating ever greater interconnected circuits which form modules of even higher complexity, the modules in turn are interconnected to other modules and begin to form brain areas, such as the frontal, or temporal lobes, which are apart of the nervous system, which is further interconnected with the peripheral nervous system, and further still to the entire human organism. All of this is in place at birth, and so we have certain genetic and biological circuits, modules and programs which have developed over milli
