ED; The word "liberation" is a word used in Buddhist environments. It usually means to liberate one from our own separateness borne in the idea of self. Mayka --- On Tue, 6/9/11, ED <[email protected]> wrote:
From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Mahayana II - beyond 7th & 8th consciousness To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 6 September, 2011, 14:42 Mayka and All, Who on this Forum thinks that they need liberation from anything? If anyone does, could they tell us what they need liberation from? --ED --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > JMJM: > There is anybody external to us to liberate from, but just ourselves. It was > very good the teaching from Nishima of sitting down zazen and take the lid > off from the pot in order to allow all ideas, images...evaporate in the > sky. There are not boddhisatvas saving the world but each of us taking the > lid off from ourselves mind pot. The buddha, the dharma and the sangha is > in each inhalation and exhalation made in awareness. > Mayka
