Kris, > Hidden in plain sight..
Indeed. Post becomes a stick Whack! Discriminating eyes clear The Trinity buds Mike ________________________________ From: Kristopher Grey <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 6 August 2012, 22:00 Subject: Re: [Zen] Samaritan On 8/6/2012 12:54 PM, mike brown wrote: Thanks for your posts tho, I'm learning a lot more about the other side of Christianity compared to what is usually on offer. I am an unlikely source of such information. My apparent openness toward various religions is relatively recent and not an endorsement of the modern multicultural dogma of "It's all good". It is not a stance I assume, but a lack of foundation that recognizes all perceived walls are built the same way. Since Buddhism resonates for you, it is simply seeing that Buddha did not teach 'Buddhism', and Christ did not teach 'Christianity'. Gautama realized/was realization of/as 'Buddha Mind', Christ realized/was realization of/as 'Christ Consciousness'. 'Awakened one', 'Son of God'... The names and terms really don't matter. This cannot be taught in that way. Whatever we read and hear, are others attempts to convey in their own way, and become accepted or rejected by self (The Three Poisons - how 'ordinary' mind works - see below on 'trinities') until recognition of/realization as... ALL teachings, traditions, and practices can only appear superficially, when looked at and discussed. The face of things only presents a problem if that is the extent of recognition/penetration/realization (only appearances/representations/concepts can be shared). This is why Buddhism stresses the empty/falseness of appearances, the 10,000 things, etc. Why Zen does not stress texts and discourses - without abandoning them. All this is just the skin of the onion - to pull another old metaphor. As for the 'trinity' - is a diamond its sparkle, or hardness, or clarity? Is a person of mind, body, or spirit? Is Buddhism Buddha, Dharma, or Sangha? Is 'Buddha Mind' Enlightenment, Equanimity, or Compassion? Are any of these distinctions anything but concepts? Do any exist in any way as independent things? (AKA - Empty, no independent origination, no separation, etc.). Mind triangulates, to form relations/as a form of relating. All such trinities are simply relationship models, maps. A thinker thinking a thought. Duality, perceiving duality. Perception of duality, appearing as trinity. Expressions of 'unity' - which is itself but a dualistic concept - pointing out there's not even 'one' to be separated out as such - there's only suchness. Redundant. Obvious. Elusive. Hidden in plain sight, encased in shrouds of thought. Buddha's 'Middle Way' is neither construction nor negation. When appearing in the form of teachings and practices, what arises is not something to be grasped or rejected but simply reflected upon, such refection recognized as suchness itself, as realization. Or so it appears. See what you will. KG
