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 - at least that's not why I read. I read to gain knowledge. I read the same reason I am on this forum and why I discuss things with other people. I want to hear about their experience, what they think and what they believe. This does not 'awaken' my Buddha Mind. In fact if anything these intellectual activities might serve to further obscure it. That would happen if I started forming attachments to what I'm reading or have read. To manifest Buddha Mind I only have to DO nothing, I just have to BE. [Ed] One must 'value' the accounts of others only if one oneself resonates with them, no? [Bill!] I used the word 'value' in my previous post. Perhaps that was a bad word. What I meant to say is that experience is everything and the only thing you have. When you have a direct experience, like tasting a grape, you have that experience. When you read someone's else's account of tasting a grape, you experience READING ABOUT tasting a grape - you do not experience tasting a grape. Both the experience of tasting a grape and the experience of reading about tasting a grape have equal value in and of themselves. ...Bill! __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5576 (20101029) __________ 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/
