Re: [Zen] Re: Caveat Emptor

[Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明]

I was taught to place our heart at the level of Bodhisattva before we even begin. Meaning we begin by accepting all phenomenon of this universe as one.  Therefore, if we don't use "I" or "You", and use just "we", then we could reduce our differentiation. This way, we need less comparatives or adjectives.  We have less a chance to be lost in relativity and consciousness.  We may clam our noisy mind a little and cultivate our Oneness with the universe with our heart. Dalai Lama said, "compassion is a willful act to undertake the sharing of the karma of others." Let me phrase in Bill's terminology, "Can't you the ignorance in us all?" "When our Hearts are like the wall, nothing affects."  Bodhi Dharma. "Now we can enter the Tao." Bill Smart wrote: Donald Hwong, You're right, of course, and I wrestle with this each time I sit down to write a post - how can I best express my buddha nature in this medium? The problem is that this forum is a words-based forum, and zen is not best communicated via words. Worse than that it's a text-base forum. The fact is that if you want to communcate via this forum you must use words and text. So, I could, as you suggest, just 'sit down and shut up', and that would indeed be a great way for me to express my buddha nature, but that doesn't allow any communication via this forum. It's certainly a challenge, and a fun one! ...Bill! __._,_.___ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today! Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___