Hi saska,
Kensho is kensho; it's characteistics have been identified; or
alternatively, you can practice hard and eventually experience it.
To call it 'original nature' or 'true nature' or 'buddha nature' is an
opinion, judgment, premise, belief or dogma of Zen, which has been added
on to the mind-state of kensho.
--ED
> Hi Ed,
>
> > Giving the said brain-state/mind-state (kensho) a label does not
equate it to that label (whatever that label might signify.)
>
> I've read this a few times and still don't really understand it. If
put this way, 'no word/label can represent the mind-state of the
so-called kensho', is it what you meant?
siska
> In my perception, "True nature" or "Buddha Nature" are merely *labels*
> for a brain-state/mind-state, usually arrived at after much zazen,
which
> experiences reality in a particular way.
>
> Giving the said brain-state/mind-state (kensho) a label does not
equate
> it to that label (whatever that label might signify.)
>
> --ED
> > My remarks below are entirely logical - and that's the weakness in
> them in trying to define or denote Buddha Nature.
>
> > ...Bill!
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