Merle, An eel only seems slippery to one who tries to grasp and hold onto it.
...Bill! --- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > > > 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 > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
