Bill,
Experience what sorts of things? --ED --- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > ED, Of course in the case of zen you'd have to drop the 'external' and 'apprehended?' (did you mean 'comprehended' or 'experienced'?). My definition of 'sentient' is a being that has the ability to experience. ...Bill! --- In [email protected] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/post?postID=_LKsf6F80eu0yxQKs5i\ CEhHHIDA_SxAjovV9cuF_ashwVuDqOct1QjILpQbYGD35dW22hqGQxvRNdOrTKSlJPvaLeQ> , "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote: > > Bill, > > I like it. > > "(sentiency) sense: the faculty through which the external world is > apprehended" > > --ED > --- In [email protected] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/post?postID=_LKsf6F80eu0yxQKs5i\ CEhHHIDA_SxAjovV9cuF_ashwVuDqOct1QjILpQbYGD35dW22hqGQxvRNdOrTKSlJPvaLeQ> , "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote: > > > > 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!
