aren't appearances too, just THIS!? and hindrances for that matter?
On 10/6/12, Kristopher Grey <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Self'/no-self', 'mind'/'no-mind' - such beliefs (or "opinions" if you
> prefer to think personal attachments differ from personal expressions of
> them) are hindrances, but being 'empty' can only appear to hinder.
>
> So long as such stories are appealing, you will pursue them. Doing so,
> one imagines the 'path' to appear long and narrow, and following it will
> appear to require great effort.
>
> Path defines self, self defines path. One in the same. All hindrances
> arise from thinking otherwise.
>
> KG
>
> On 10/6/2012 1:39 AM, Bill! wrote:
>>
>> The only hindrance to fully realizing Buddha Nature (IMO) is clinging
>> to self...Bill!
>>
>> --- In [email protected] <mailto:Zen_Forum%40yahoogroups.com>,
>> Kristopher Grey <kris@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 10/6/2012 1:09 AM, billsmart wrote:
>> > > My practice is to continue to more completely bring no-mind (Buddha
>> > > Nature) up off the cushion and more fully integrate it into my
>> daily life.
>> >
>> > Seeing 'no-mind' as being more or less 'Buddha Nature" than mind is the
>> > only hindrance to realizing life as the integral expression of this.
>> >
>> > Practice, wherever it may appear to lead, is non other than this,
>> > appearing as a form of expression.
>> >
>> > KG
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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