ED,
Thank you for being so courteous and respectful. This is not an issue
at all... Continue to do what you believe is proper... I fully
understand. A lot of times, my teacher says nothing as his response.
Not even a smile or a wink sometimes.
I don't get into views or perspectives, because it is such a
interpretive domain and causes all sorts of misunderstanding in a forum
of words. I have learned, to share only what I have witnessed.
Otherwise I am like parrot.
To me, all human expressions are second hand at best, incomplete,
relative and context driven. Of course, including everything I say or
think or behave.
Goethe said, "Civilization is but a physical manifestation of life.... "
That is also why sutras are never clear. Sutra were written for us to
be awakened from inside and not written to persuade some theory or logic.
When you have a chance I would recommend that you read Diamond Sutra.
The bible of Chan.
With respect,
JM
Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can
http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com
http://www.heartchan.org
On 4/23/2011 10:54 AM, ED wrote:
Mayka and JM,
If and when I do not respond to your posts, it's not because I am
shunning you. It is because we do not appear to be able to communicate
with each other - and this is nobody's 'fault.'
Nevertheless, please do not hold back from expressing your views on my
messages, and I may do likewise as appropriate. I tend to focus
on view-points, and attach little significance if any to the specific
individual expressing those points of view.
--ED
--- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote:
>
ED;
I'm not sure If I'm understanding well your sayings here but no
intention of interfering in any with your way of seeing
life etc... I'm under the impression that your confusion here comes
due to you doing too much reading and not experiencing in you that.
The Buddha stated very clearly not to believe in anything he said, but
experience first and then choose to believe or not believe. A bit
like Chris pointed out the other day something on this lines: "First
experience afterwards think". But you seem to keep doing in other way
round: first you do massive reading to stimulate even more your
intellectual thinking and then you experience the consequences of that
mental intellectual thinking. This is why you are confuse now.
In the light interbeing and the heart of prajanaparamitra sutra or
Heart Sutra: Emptiness is form, form is emptiness and the same is with
perceptions, mental formations, consciousness....Impossible to
understand this in the intellectual thinking form. So you have no
more choice but to give up and start to do some sitting to start with.
Mayka
