Re: [Zen] Re: JUDO

[Edgar Owen]

Hi Al, Aren't you confusing Gautama Buddha with Bodhidharma? Bodhidharma is the one who sat in the cave facing the wall for 9 years, not Gautama. As for Gautama being fat here's a sculpture of him during his ascetic period..... Edgar On Sep 12, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Fitness63 wrote: I think Buddha Nature is a bigger illusion than CHI. I never talk about it at all, because I do not think that there is Buddha Nature. Buddha was not God, he was just some fat prince that could afford to sit in a cave for nine years without starving to death because there was some other unknown bastards bringing him food and water and busting their respective asses so that one rich fucker could find enlightenment.   So whatever he found, it existed before he found it, and I don't think of it as Buddha Nature anymore than I think of it as "Rich Lazy Fat Bastard Nature."   So Chi means more to me as a word than Buddha Nature. When you think about the whole story of the Buddha it brings up some issues, like why wasn't that fat bastard working in the fields helping people instead of sitting in a cave.   Not to mention that he gives no mentions to the staff of people that took care of him for nine years. He wasn't coming out of the cave to hunt and fish so someone else was doing that for him, and those guys and gals got no credit at all. That seems very selfish. It should be called "Dedicated Servants Nature" in honor of the folks that actually were working during the nine years that fat boy was meditating.   Al     ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Smart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:35 PM Subject: [Zen] Re: JUDO Al, Exactly! IF (and that's a big IF) you realize something is an illusion and  identify it as such, you can qualify it as much as you'd like. BUT (and that's a bodacious booty) if you're saying something is not  an illusion you shouldn't use qualifiers. For example, you wouldn't  talk about 'my Buddha Nature and your Buddha Nature, or good Buddha  Nature and Bad Buddha Nature, etc...; would you? Bill!  --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com, "Fitness63" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]..> wrote: > > From: Bill Smart<as soon as you enter into a > dualistic despription of chi, assigning it such qualities as  personal chi,  > universal chi, good chi, bad chi, feminine chi, masuline chi, stong  chi,  > weak chi, etc..., you are no longer talking about chi, you're just  babbling  > about some illusions and attachments you have in regards to the  concept of  > chi.> >  > Chi is an illusion anyway, so why not qualify your illusions. After  all,  > they are part of the real world and thus there are all kinds. >