ED, That's the hornets nest you provoke by asking. Again, if you don't intuitively understand what compassion is then asking isn't going to get you closer to it. Trust yourself.
Mike --- On Thu, 14/6/12, ED <[email protected]> wrote: From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: The Self Illusion To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 14 June, 2012, 1:07 K, the problem with zen is that, without reliance on scriptures, zen in the West appears to have become a madhouse of opinions of zen teachers and their students - not that I recommend any change. --ED --- In [email protected], Kristopher Grey <kris@...> wrote: > > Compassion is wherever you are. Compassion is always with, never from > or for. What use seeking it in others? Questions of others equanimity or > enlightenment, make the same error. > > Compassion with this error, allows it to be realized. > Equanimity in this error, allows this to be realized. > Enlightenment as this error, allows this to be realized. > > > Realization is experiencing these, yet none of these are experiences. > > > There is only this - compassion & equanimity, experiencing enlightenment. > > Breaking this statement down to show the extraordinary in/as the ordinary: > > There is [compassion] only this [equanimity], experiencing [enlightenment]. > > Removing the redundancies and added moral/social/spiritual labels > seekers get hung up on entirely: > > There is only this, experiencing. > > K
