JM, Good argument: it is always up to you to figure out, not my problem. However, you are a teacher. To save you from embarrassment, it is better to rephrase it as: "our feeling tired is because our compassion is from our dicriminating mind and not from our original mind." Anthony
--- On Tue, 23/8/11, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] An example of Absolute Emptiness To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 23 August, 2011, 10:48 PM Hi Anthony, It is for me to say and for you to figure out. Thank you for reading my post. jm Learn the Basics of Chan Meditation... http://www.chan-meditation.org Chan in everyday life... http://www.chanliving.org To be enlightened in this life... http://www.heartchan.org To save our world... http://www.universal-oneness.org On 8/22/2011 2:46 PM, Anthony Wu wrote: JM, I always run into trouble with the kind of your remark: 'we feeling tired is because our compassion is from our mind and not from our heart' Since both words are represented by 'xin' in Chinese, would your teacher say,' our feeling tired is because our compassion is from our xin and not from our xin? Anthony --- On Tue, 23/8/11, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] An example of Absolute Emptiness To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 23 August, 2011, 12:50 AM In chapter V of Vimalakirti sutra, he talked about absolute emptiness. I shall translate from Chinese for your reference, the English I use more than likely will not match your search result online..... Why do we often feeling "tired" or "disgusted" on our journey of ferrying others with kindness and good intentions? If you do, please read on... It is so because our compassion in our hearts derives from form and not arise from within. In other words, we feeling tired is because our compassion is from our mind and not from our heart. A consciousness-based compassion is based on form, logic, give and take, balance, purpose and objective. This kind of compassion has a purpose and result oriented, otherwise it can not balance itself. The compassion rises from our hearts are pure giving. Our heart syncs with the hearts of others, and "knowing" that we are all deluded by our mind and not "seeing" that everything is just endless illusions of cause and effect. Our hearts are one of the same. Upon this "synchronization" of hearts, our mind would quiet. We would be able to function with joy and dedication, continuously, effortlessly, naturally and instinctively, with our pure heart. Thank you for your time, JMJM Head Teacher Order of Chan -- Learn the Basics of Chan Meditation... http://www.chan-meditation.org Chan in everyday life... http://www.chanliving.org To be enlightened in this life... http://www.heartchan.org To save our world... http://www.universal-oneness.org
