Ed, Your question: "What on earth is not an illusion?" is what zen is all about!
All thoughts and concepts of the discriminating mind (the rational mind that creates dualisms such as self/other, subject/object and makes judgments such as good/bad, right/wrong) are illusions. Only direct experience is not illusory. 'Direct' means before the experience goes through the discriminating mind and gets processed there (filtered, augmented, named, categorized, assigned a value, etc...). Zen Buddhism calls this 'Buddha Mind' or 'Buddha Nature'. Joshu called it 'Mu' and 'The Oak Tree in the Garden'. Ummon called it 'A Dried Shit-Stick'. Gutei just held up his index finger. I call it 'Just THIS!'. So I now ask you: What is Buddha? ...Bill! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ED Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen, Self, I, Me and Mine Bill, What on earth is not an illusion? Thanks, --ED --- In [email protected], <billsm...@...> wrote: > > Anthony, > > Physical laws are illusions, but the phenomena (experience) which they attempt to describe cannot be ignored. > > See the koan 'Hyakujo and the Fox', Case 2 - THE GATELESS GATE collection. > > ...Bill! __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5566 (20101027) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5566 (20101027) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
