ED, >ED: This is a thought/conception/belief/assumption.)
Not at all, but you'd be right not to accept anyone's word for it. If it's only accepted at an intellectual level, then it's not worth the words used to explain it. It has to be experienced body and soul (Hence the burst of laughter and release when you see the obviousness of it). Just as knowing a glass of water is cold when you drink it straight from the fridge - and is not a belief or conception - so to is awakening to Buddha Nature. >ED: This is a core teaching of the Buddha. Indeed. Mike ________________________________ From: ED <[email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2012, 17:24 Subject: [Zen] Re: " dancing with the daffodils" --- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote: > > Self/Buddha Nature/Awareness is unborn (and therefore never dies) and so is > ever present regardless of what we are thinking/doing. ED: This is a thought/conception/belief/assumption.) > But suffering arises when we think there is an independent 'I' having those > thoughts. ED: This is a core teaching of the Buddha. > Mike
