Kris, Don't we come here with the tacit understanding that any words used here cannot capture the ineffable? I think you know exactly what I mean, you rascal.
Mike ________________________________ From: Kristopher Grey <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2012, 20:11 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: " dancing with the daffodils" Self appears/is born. No-self doesn't appear/is unborn. Realize these are but aspects of mind, no difference. KG On 9/2/2012 12:05 PM, mike brown wrote: >Kris, > > >Very good! You must have given that a lot of thought ; ) > > >>Self can be found nowhere else > > >Of course. Self/Buddha Nature/Awareness is unborn (and therefore never dies) >and so is ever present regardless of what we are thinking/doing. But suffering >arises when we think there is an independent 'I' having those thoughts. That >we have this Realisation is the difference. How this Realisation manifests is >unimportant. For some it will be sudden for others gradual. But you're correct >that Self alwaysis. > > >Mke > > > > >________________________________ > From: Kristopher Grey <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2012, 15:42 >Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: " dancing with the daffodils" > > > >On 9/2/2012 7:05 AM, mike brown wrote: >> But if you do find yourself thinking, just come back gently to the breath. > >A tri-ku for you: > >With each rise and fall >The breath is grasped and released >Each, a birth and death > >Immersed in thinking >Self can be found nowhere else >Always lost in thought > >Mind, a stream of thought >Following, or flowing by >The way, like water > > >
