Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Dhamma, Every human being born with their Buddha nature, everyone is the same. When you are born, you are born with no mind .this is your basic ..and let this basic penetrate down deep into your heart. Let it go down as deep as possible, because through this understanding, it will slowly open the door of Truth. If everyone born with no mind then this mind is just a social product. It is nothing natural but only as a cultivated product. It have been put together on top of you, but deep down you are still free, the enlightenment seed is still with you so you can get out of it. You can never get out of nature but you can get out of the artificial whenever you decide to do so. Everything is mind made suffering, ill-will, hatred, delusion and etc. Dont ever trap into this crazy mind game. Mind is so powerful, it even more powerful than what your belief in ..as a God! How? Human being mind can exist in this world without to believe the idea of God. But God cant exist without human beings mind. So this is the clear answer of whether God created human being or human being created God! This crazy mind will lead us far away from the actual Truth. Example: People falsely believe whatever Truth is inside the Tiptaka or the Bible, this idea is strongly rooted in human being mind. Whenever someone looks for the Truth, they might either read the Tipitaka or the Bible. This is what they have been told to do. And someone who read so much on this text book will easily attached to it and they are going toward somewhere else instead of understanding the real Truth. It is similar to when you are thirsty, you may looks into the word Water in the book, or someone so call intellect will even wrote a big letter of H2O in a piece of paper when they are feeling thirsty. Do you think they can solve their thirst? So this mind will always attracted to those fancy words which is means nothing more than to shown to others that they know more things compare to others. Ego .ego ..all this come from this mind game. Your existence precedes thinking, but the existence is not a state of mind it is beyond a state of mind. To be not to think .is the way to know the Truth. Thinking can think only about the known, it is similar like to chew which people already chewed. Thinking can never be original. How can you think about the unknown? Whatsoever you can manage to think will still trap in the compound of known. You can proceed with you thinking only because of you know. At the most, you can only make some combination like dog, flying and gold became a golden flying dog. Thinking can only involve in new combination but it cannot know the unknown Truth. The unknown remains beyond it and thinking will only go into the circle, go on knowing the known again and again. Noting is new and original; it is only chew whatever people already chewed. Science means thinking, philosophy means thinking, theology also means thinking but the real religious does not means thinking. The true religious approach will approach in non thinking. Example: just like sitting and do nothing. When you able to sit and do nothing, then it is more intimate, it brings you closer to the reality of Truth. All those hinder will automatically drop, the barrier is drop, no more boundaries and it will be unblock. Then only you start to flow into life. You dont think that you are only watcher, separated, looking from a distance. But you really meets, merge into this reality of Truth. The real Tipitaka or the Bible is within us, it is not external text book. Those text books are already death and no flow into life. Truth never comes by studying about it; Truth had to be encounter, Truth had to be faced. The person who studying about Truth is like a person who is studying the China map, you cant really know who is Chinese by merely reading the China map. It is impossible but yet a lot of people are so attached to this map. You dont develop an eye to see the Truth because your prejudiced mind will blind you all the way. Your mind is accumulated too much knowledge that make this heart full of so many conclusion is dead. Too many of your own perception and assumption that make your intelligence losing its sharpness, its intensity, its beauty and became dull. Some people are too attached to this science also make them lost. This is due to science means facts and absolutely definite. If someone so definite about facts, then automatically they will lose the mysterious ..the more definite you are, the more mysterious will evaporates. If you lost mysterious in life, you also may lose the Truth. If you want to experience the mysterious, you will have to enter from another door or another totally different dimension. The dimension of the mind is the dimension of the science, and the dimension of meditation is the dimension of mysterious and miraculous. Meditation makes everything undefined. Meditation takes you into the unknown, the uncharted. Eventually you will dissolve in it and no more separation within the observer and the observed and everything become as One. Looking at the flower become the flower, you can dance around the flower, sing a song with the flower. The flower is dancing in the wind, singing a song, rejoicing and alleluia. Come and drop all the difference, objectivity, detachment. Drop all your scientific attitudes ..and become a little more fluid, more melting and become more merging. Let the flower speak to your heart, let the wind and flower enter into your being. Invite them they are our guest! And then you will have some taste of what is call mystery in life. This is your first step towards the mysterious, if you able to participate for a short moment, you have known the key. The secret of the ultimate step; and you become a person who watching everything in your action. You can walk, you can talk, you can write and you also can sing. But whenever you walk, you are dissolve in the walking, whenever you talk, you are dissolve in the talking, whenever you write, you are dissolve in the writing and whenever you sing, you also dissolve in the singing. When such deep unity happening in many phase of your life, when all around you start having such tremendous experience of dissolving, disappearing, nothingness or egoless when the flower is there and you are not, when the wind is there and you are not .when there are nobody in you, just a pure silence, virgin silence, undisturbed by this logic mind thought, emotion, feeling, and perception .that is the moment of meditation that .this mind is really gone ..then you really meet with your basic of True Self. May all beings be Joy and Bliss, . Best regards and blessing to all, Achema [email protected] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ** MABINDO - Forum Diskusi Masyarakat Buddhis Indonesia ** ** Kunjungi juga website global Mabindo di http://www.mabindo.org **Yahoo! 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