ED, You only experience one thing: reality/Buddha Nature.
As we are want to do with everything we have divided experience up into categories such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. But it is just one thing - Buddha Nature. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote: > > > > 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! > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
