Hi Anthony,
If you research, you shall find there were two cases of heart
transplant, as far as I read, changed the personality of the recipient
to that of the donor. :-)
But the statement above is a scientific one, which has no value in
Chan. Just like your statement.
In Chan, however, it is my direct experience as well as the experience
of many of my fellow practitioners, when the mind drops, the heart
shines and we become one with the ONE.
Similarly, I recommend that we all sit down, shut up and stop thinking
every day, same time, same place for one hour.
The truth will be unfold. I guarantee.
JMJM
Head Teacher
Order Of Buddha Heart
Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can
http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com
http://www.heartchan.org
On 10/3/2010 4:37 PM, Anthony Wu wrote:
JM,
Thank you for interesting posts as always. We need a different points
of views to avoid dullness. Yours is always refreshing, and
unfortunately also controversial.
The reason that in Chinese literature there is only the word 'heart',
when it should mean 'mind' is that there is no Chinese equivalent of
the word mind. More than a thousand years ago, when Kumarajiwa was
racking his brain to translate 'citta' (Sanskrit mind), he was so
smart to understand the Chinese associated thinking with the heart.
That is why you always hear 'xin', 'xin', and 'xin'. That does not
mean the heart has a critical function of thinking. No doubt it is a
very important organ. Besides the normal function of pumping blood, it
plays a critical role in every kind of 'chi' manipulation, including
the Tantric 'heart chakra'. Nevertheless, the organ closest to the
thinking process is the brain, not the heart. If I have a heart
transplant, needless to say, I will still be called Anthony. If, on
the other hand, a brain transplant? Would it be more appropriate to
adopt the name Frankenstein the Second?
Anthony
--- On *Sun, 3/10/10, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
/<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]>
Subject: [Zen] Mind
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, 3 October, 2010, 8:17 AM
Hi DP,
Science will tell you, there are more neuron firing to the brain from
the stomach then the other way around. Similarly there are more
neuron
from the sub conscience, from the heart, from other organs, from the
entire body...
In Chan, wisdom is not from the brain, but from the heart within.
Whether you called it Buddhist mind, or mind, or Christian mind,
everyone of us has gotten only one mind. And to confuse you some
more,
Chan does not use the word of "mind", but "heart".
As you see, words are very confusing. Therefore we often say...
"Chan is not to be understood, studied or mastered. Chan is to be
practiced and experienced. And there is only one way to enter the
experience -- to meditate." Not 10 minutes, but at least 45
minutes to
an hour everyday. There is nothing needs to be understood.
There is a saying in the Zen community - sit down, shut up and stop
thinking.
Then the gate opens up.
Bon Voyage,
:-)
--
Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can
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