Very clearly, simply and didactically explicated
Exactly how I feel, can't put it any better.
Thank you.
siska
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From: ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com
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Thanks ED. I appreciate your kind words and understanding. Your tolerance
says a lot of good about you.
However, I'd like to warn you about me that I do suffer from temperamental
tantrums specially when real communication shades away. It's fair that you know
this about me so that you don't
Bill;
I apologise. I over-reacted and missed out the joke!
Mayka
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JMJM;
There is a way of relenting the form of the words making them come out as a
manifestation of Buddha, Jesus, god, Ala, Krishna, universal energy of the
heart... and that is the one of, breathing we are online!.
I've been having under observation myself reactions while posting to the
Hi Bill,
I'd advise you to value your own experience more than the account of someone
else's
In essence, aren't they the same?
siska
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Enlightenment is reached from every day life...
Not: every day life IS enlightenment?
siska
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From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
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Mayka said: You right and there is no attachment to any of those
sensations appearing in the body and in the mind.
Mayka,
How can a person ever be certain that he/she is not possessed by an
attachment or an aversion? Would not others, and epecially one's own
guide (zen, spiritual or
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Bill... wrote:
You are correct that you shouldn't form an attachment to either your
own experience or intellectual knowledge - but it is important to note
that the experience, even its memory, is your experience;
whereas whatever you read or are taught is at
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Thanks ED. I appreciate your kind words and understanding.
Mayka, thanks to you too; I feel happy too now that we are attempting to
communicate with each other.
Your tolerance says a lot of good about you.
The
Hi Siska,
That quote I posted was how it was in the sutra, the exact words are,
Dharma is in the secular world, Buddha is awakened from the secular world.
Due to our ego, usually majority of us consider every day events are not
perfectly desirable. That's perhaps the reason for the sutra
Dear Mayka,
Indeed. When we reach a level, where we could be able to differentiate
our mental construct from true heart, our intentions could be directly
touching the heart of others.
Otherwise, we could be just indulging our ego in the reincarnation of
the relativities of logic and
When I read a lot of Zen Enlightenment stuff, I find my sitting is then filled
up with what i label Zen thoughts - thoughts that attempt to portray themselves
as wisdom or as good Zen experiences.
I personally find those to be even more obscuring than the non-Zen thoughts
about various
Siska,
I think there is a distinct difference between doing and feeling something and
only reading about it.
There is absolutely the experience of reading. That’s yours, and that might
invoke a similar experience to what the writer is writing about. That’s the
goal of good writing –
Ed,
My responses are embedded below:
[Ed} When one reads, it is not necessarily to 'learn', but also and
especially to awaken one's own intrinic wisdom-mind, no?
[Bill!] I assume by 'intrinic [sic] wisdom-mind' you mean 'Buddha Mind' or
'Original Mind'. If that's so, then I disagree with you -
Siska,
I think there is a distinct difference between doing and feeling something and
only reading about it.
There is absolutely the experience of reading. That’s yours, and that might
invoke a similar experience to what the writer is writing about. That’s the
goal of good writing –
Chris,
I wholeheartedly agree with you that thoughts about zen can be the most
bothersome.
…Bill!
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Siska,
I think there is a distinct difference between doing and feeling something and
only reading about it.
There is absolutely the experience of reading. That’s yours, and that might
invoke a similar experience to what the writer is writing about. That’s the
goal of good writing –
Siska,
I think there is a distinct difference between doing and feeling something and
only reading about it.
There is absolutely the experience of reading. That’s yours, and that might
invoke a similar experience to what the writer is writing about. That’s the
goal of good writing –
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