indeed..freedom...merle I disagree.
'Sentient beings' are beings that have sensory organs. All the rest of the qualities mentioned like 'mental entities such as perceptions, beliefs, opinions, attitudes,desires, moods, values, prejudices, convictions, assumptions,preconceptions, biases, habit patterns, dispositions, sentiments, judgments, addictions,impulses, compulsions, compunctions, obsessions, scruples, delusions, views, concepts, thoughts, ideas, etc....' are illusions and are exactly what zen practice helps you dissolve attachments to. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "pudgala2" <pudgala2@...> wrote: > > > Twenty-five hundred years ago Siddhartha Gautama made the astonishing > discovery > that the ego is a "virtual reality" conditioned in the brain by > unconsciously acquired > beliefs, attitudes, opinions, moods, etc.—collectively known as > sentient beings. > Gautama penetrated and released these empty emotional cofactors of his > own > conditioned personality and realized Enlightenment—the end of mental > anguish. > > Buddha: I teach one thing and one thing only—the end of > [egotistical] suffering. > > Sentient being is the most misunderstood and misused concept in > Buddhism. It must > be thoroughly penetrated and understood or you will completely miss the > point of the > BuddhaDharma and the ending of mental anguish by the release of all > sentient beings. > > Sentient beings are mental entities such as perceptions, beliefs, > opinions, attitudes, > desires, moods, values, prejudices, convictions, assumptions, > preconceptions, biases, > habit patterns, dispositions, sentiments, judgments, addictions, > impulses, compulsions, > compunctions, obsessions, scruples, delusions, views, concepts, > thoughts, ideas, etc., > that are emotionally identified with and encapsulated in an ego. They > are mentally > felt to be valid and real to the ego. "I am what I feel/experience" is > the cry of the ego— > the artificial sense of self construction. > > The ego is a psychosomatic accretion unwittingly conditioned into the > brain by the body > growing up the way it did—a fait accompli. The limitations of this > crude creation generates > ever increasing suffering in the bewildered mind. > > Most minds, via their ingrown egos, get distracted and bogged down in > traditions, > families, self complacency, careers, causes, religions, mental > illnesses, drugs, and other > acquired addictions, delusions, and illusions. A self selected few come > upon the Truth > of Suffering and enter the path/process of the BuddhaDharma seeking an > end to their > egotistical suffering. > > Suffering is an alarm telling mind it is time to wake up, pay attention, > and return to > Original Mind by deconstructing the Original Sin of Egotistical > Identification. >
