RE: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-26 Thread BillSmart
uddha Mind BEFORE and AFTER kensho is the awareness of training wheels. That's the best I can come up with right now...Bill! From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:zen_fo...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ED Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:33 PM To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Zen]

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-25 Thread Anthony Wu
ED,   JM realized he had mistaken samadhi for sama sambuddha.   Anthony --- On Thu, 25/11/10, ED wrote: From: ED Subject: Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices To: zen_foru...@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, 25 November, 2010, 9:33 PM   Anthony, My reading and yours is that samadhi

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-25 Thread Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
Hi Ed, True. In the world of words, instead of emptiness, I prefer to use the phrase of "incomplete". Every perspective is a valid one, just incomplete. Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com http://www.heartchan.org On 11/25/2010 6:50 AM, ED wrote: JMJM,

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-25 Thread ED
JMJM, Emptiness maybe, but more pertinent to our discussion, according to Bill, they should not be of interest to anyone else as they are not *their* experience. --ED PS: I do not necessarily disagree with Bill. --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Jue Miao Jing Ming wrote: > Ed, Correct. A

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-25 Thread ED
Anthony, I notice that JMJM in one of his more recent posts agrees with the samadhi, kensho, satori temporal sequence. --ED --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, "ED" wrote: > Anthony, My reading and yours is that samadhi precedes kenso/satori. I would like to see how JMJM justifies his statem

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-25 Thread ED
Anthony, My reading and yours is that samadhi precedes kenso/satori. I would like to see how JMJM justifies his statement that kensho/satori precedes samadhi. I am under the impression that Bill asserts that samadhi is no other than kensho-satori. --ED --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Anth

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Anthony Wu
ED/JMJM,   I think JM means kensho is prior to samadhi, which is way before satori. JM's position is unique.   Anthony --- On Thu, 25/11/10, ED wrote: From: ED Subject: Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, 25 November, 2010, 8:56 AM  

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
/* wrote: From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 Subject: Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, 24 November, 2010, 8:47 AM Hi Anthony, 1. Yes, you are right。 Kensho『見性』 is resulted from sitting, which is a state before Samad

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Lluís Mendieta
AM Subject: Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices Lluis, Probably both Emperor Akbhar and the Sixth Patriarch Huinent were dislexic, and both were very intelligent as well. They have a lot in common. The Sixth Patriarch Huineng does not belong to any Tibetan lineages such as

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
Ed, Correct. All these description are "description of experience". No one in the world can know you what you have experienced. Therefore the description of any states is just emptiness. Therefore these type of discussion is emptiness.. :-) Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can http:/

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread ED
Hi JMJM, All you can tcorrectly assert is that you have experiened something. You cannot all by yourself tell whether what you have experienced is samadhi or kensho. --ED --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Jue Miao Jing Ming wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > I don't have any position. These are my pers

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
Hi Ed, I don't have any position. These are my personal experience. You could have your personal experience. Each journey of ours is unique. Each journey is precious. What is yours? However you say it is, it is not. Diamond sutra already repeated this over and over with 5,000 words for

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread ED
JMJM, Do you have a reference to support you position that kensho is prior to satori? Thanks, ED --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Wu wrote: > > JMJM, > > You say: " Kensho" is resulted from sitting, which is a state before Samadhi" > I think kensho results from sitting and it is

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Anthony Wu
/11/10, Lluís Mendieta wrote: From: Lluís Mendieta Subject: Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, 25 November, 2010, 5:34 AM    Hi, Anthony   "You say: "  The Sixth Patriarch did not even read or write." Yes, you are right, but

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Lluís Mendieta
nderings. With best wishes Lluís - Original Message - From: Anthony Wu To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices JMJM, You say: " Kensho『見性』 is resulted from sitting

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Anthony Wu
覺妙精明 wrote: From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 Subject: Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, 24 November, 2010, 8:47 AM   Hi Anthony, 1.  Yes, you are right。 Kensho『見性』 is resulted from sitting, which is a state before Samadhi『三摩地』。All these descr

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-23 Thread ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Jue Miao Jing Ming wrote: > > Hi Anthony, > > 1. Yes, you are right, Kensho is resulted from sitting, which is a state before Samadhi ... "Student: What is the relationship between samadhi and kensho? Daido Roshi: Samadhi can eventually lead to kensho. Ken

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-23 Thread Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
Hi Anthony, 1. Yes, you are right。 Kensho『見性』 is resulted from sitting, which is a state before Samadhi『三摩地』。All these descriptions are resulted from sitting. No different from describing the taste of Apple. 2. Don't know what you were trying to say. 3. Heart is everything you were talkin

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-23 Thread Anthony Wu
JMJM,   Most of your remarks make sense. But there is a problem with the following:   Most of us consider kensho a result of stillness, but you think it the other way around.   Yes, the Sixth Patriarch did not write, because he was unable to. He was illiterate. That does not mean he did not want