enlightenment is as slippery as an eel..merle
Will the one and only true Buddha Nature please stand up!
--ED
Web definitions
* Buddha-nature or Buddha Principle (Buddha-dhâtu), is taught, within
Mahayana Buddhism, to be an intrinsic, immortal potential for reaching
enlightenment that exists within the mind of every sentient being. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha-nature
* (Fo-xing) or the potential for becoming a Buddha is possessed equally
by all sentient beings. The difference between a Buddha and an ordinary living
being is that a Buddha has realized his or her Buddha-nature, while an ordinary
being has not. ...
www.zhaxizhuoma.net/DHARMA/GLOSSARY/IndexGlossaryB.…
* n. The One True Home of a page or resource in a Web site's structure.
There may be multiple pathways for arriving at it, but it only lives in one
spot. "You can get to your account statement from any banking page, but it's
Buddha Nature is the Document Center."
www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000110.html
* the potential, which all beings share, to become enlightened. It is
described in Buddhist texts as a mind which is "by nature brightly shining and
pure" and "luminous."
www.pbs.org/thebuddha/glossary/
* The potential of any sentient being which permits them to attain
Buddhahood.
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Buddhist_Philosophy/Glossary
* a concrete expression for the substratum of perfection, of
completeness, intrinsic to both sentient and insentient life.
www.windhorsezen.org/blog/
* The seed of mindfulness and enlightenment in every person,
representing our potential to become fully awake.
www.ccml.info/glossary/
* The factors present in all beings that allow them to attain full
enlightenment.
www.thubtenchodron.org/OtherResources/glossary.html
* True, or essential, nature; the essence and function of reality;
inherent enlightenment.
flatbedsutra.com/flatbedsutrazenblogger/
* The basic essence of purity living with all organisms. Zen practice
reveals this intrinsic nature. It is not something that requires "seeking";
rather it is always with us.
www.maximumbliss.com/zen dictionary.asp
* (buddhata): In Mahayana Buddhism, undifferientiated absolute
existence behind all appearances, functionally the same as nirvana, emptiness,
suchness, and the Eternal Buddha.
www.utm.edu/~jfieser/vita/teaching/2003/eastglos.htm
--- In [email protected], Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
Bill!,
Bill! claims logic is NOT Zen...
Bill! says he uses logic in his daily life...
Therefore Bill must believe he CANNOT have Zen in his daily life...
This is a serious error...
Zen is 24/7 whether one is using logic or sitting mindlessly.
It is a fundamental error to believe only mindless sitting is Zen. That's
mistaking a particular meditative state for Zen.
There is no part of reality that is not Buddha Nature. Illusion is part of
reality and thus is a manifestation of Buddha Nature.
Realization is seeing the illusion that is part of reality as illusion rather
than the fake reality it pretends to be....
When Bill! understands that logic is part of reality and thus like everything
else is a form manifesting Buddha Nature rather than something contrary to and
apart from Buddha Nature, then and only then will Bill! allow himself to
completely realize Zen in his daily life as well as when he is sitting
mindlessly...
This is the crux of Bill!'s misunderstanding.... At the most fundamental level
he dualistically divides reality into illusion and Buddha nature without
realizing that even illusion is a manifestation of Buddha Nature because there
is nothing that is not Buddha Nature... The world of forms does NOT stand apart
from Buddha Nature. The world of forms is a direct manifestation OF Buddha
Nature.
Zen does not try to dismiss the world of forms; Zen is seeing the Buddha Nature
that is manifested in the world of forms... It is seeing the world of forms AS
Buddha Nature...
Only when this becomes clear can realization occur....
Edgar
