So sure you are about what equanimity is, yet such surety ensures it
cannot be realized.
Do not mistake detachment for non-attachment. Attachment and detachment
(not attachment) are the same error of separation. Can a Buddha not
laugh and cry?
As for Jesus, he is dead. So is Gautama. Still, they point the way.
Buddha and Christ are not names - they are recognition of realization.
In shikantaza, whatever appears is just as free to pass. If you deny
what arises, you are not just sitting. If you claim this is or is not
shikantaza, you are not just sitting.
KG
On 8/3/2012 5:14 PM, mike brown wrote:
Kris,
I know absolutely sweet f.a about Christianity, never mind Christian
forms of meditation, so I'll accept what you say about grace, being
open and 'just this'. I would still, however, argue that being
overwhelmed emotionally at feeling like you are being filled with the
Holy Ghost, or whatever else, is not observing with equanimity and is
therefore not shikantaza. If I sit down to practice shikantaza and I
have a feeling that my dead grandmother is with me, is it still
shikantaza if I feel overwhelmed and start bawling my eyes out? Or
does Jesus get a free pass?
Mike
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