Bill,
Right; "thoughts" are not top dog in the life of a Practitioner.
I think stones and stars have the Buddha Nature, even though when I query them,
they are silent. Silence is not an indication of dumb-ness, always. It's up
to us to see what's up. Or down to us, my British non-relatives say. I love
them like siblings.
Bill, in my best moments, say, just after awakenings, minor or major, for weeks
or months -- you know how it goes -- everything speaks, glows, and impresses,
from within us. Even the deadest wood of a tree, piled on the ground by an
un-artistic worker, impresses the daylights out of us, for its liveliness. The
wood glows, the pile shows so much of the goodness and innocence of Humanity,
the black of the shadows and interstices of the dry branches show so much about
life and about death... they are kin!; and, kindly! I think this is Buddha
Nature, crying out and clawing at us for our notice. If not, I am a Zen fool.
Yours,
--Joe
> "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> I was just responding to the thread. Sentient-ness is not the only thing I
> value.
>
> I have heard it said that 'all sentient beings have Buddha Nature'. That
> doesn't exclude non-sentient beings/items from also having Buddha Nature, but
> I cannot understand how they could.
>
> Anyway, all those thoughts are not important/valuable to me.
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