Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Mind monkey or monkey mind, from Chinese xinyuan and Sino-Japanese shin'en 心猿 [lit. \"heart-/mind-monkey\"], is a Buddhist term meaning \"unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable\". In addition to Buddhist writings, including Chan or Zen, Consciousness-only, Pure Land, and Shingon, this \"mind-monkey\" psychological metaphor was adopted in Taoism, Neo-Confucianism, poetry, drama, and literature. \"Mind-monkey\" occurs in two reversible four-character idioms with yima or iba 意馬 [lit. \"thought-/will-horse\"], most frequently used in Chinese xinyuanyima 心猿意馬 and Japanese ibashin'en 意馬心猿. The \"Monkey King\" Sun Wukong in the Journey to the West personifies the mind-monkey. Note that much of the following summarizes Carr (1993)."@en }
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- Mind_monkey abstract "Mind monkey or monkey mind, from Chinese xinyuan and Sino-Japanese shin'en 心猿 [lit. \"heart-/mind-monkey\"], is a Buddhist term meaning \"unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable\". In addition to Buddhist writings, including Chan or Zen, Consciousness-only, Pure Land, and Shingon, this \"mind-monkey\" psychological metaphor was adopted in Taoism, Neo-Confucianism, poetry, drama, and literature. \"Mind-monkey\" occurs in two reversible four-character idioms with yima or iba 意馬 [lit. \"thought-/will-horse\"], most frequently used in Chinese xinyuanyima 心猿意馬 and Japanese ibashin'en 意馬心猿. The \"Monkey King\" Sun Wukong in the Journey to the West personifies the mind-monkey. Note that much of the following summarizes Carr (1993).".