Joe, In fact ever since Mu I've tried to 'explain' Buddha Nature as the 'One experience which can be described as the aggregation of the 'five' senses. That 'synthesis', that experience is Buddha Nature.'
Now in actual fact the statement above is actually the REVERSE of what happens. It's talking about AGGREGATION or SYNTHESIS when actually what happens sequentially is first, the One Experience (Buddha Nature) and then subsequently the SEPARATION of this One Experience into various parts (dualism/subject-object)which we then describe as 'sight', 'sound', 'touch', 'smell' and 'taste'. And then of course there is 'thought' which like the concept of five senses above is just another set of illusory concepts. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Bill!, > > Wow!, I never made that step, the step to THAT realization, before. One > "sense"... Buddha Nature. Of course, that has to be right. Not because you > said it... but because it is clear. Well, it is now. > > It diverges from Buddhist philosophy, though. See the system according to > Mind Only. Which is also clear. > > I love that old story about Suzuki at the conference. > > Sometime, let me tell the story of my old Professor, Sidney Morgenbesser, at > the conference with the Oxford philosopher, J. L. Austin. Or maybe I did, > already. > > --Joe > > > "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote: > > > > Joe, > > > > For me Suzuki's answer was appropriate because he was relating the reality > > of the table to sensual experience - in the case of the table probably > > sight and touch. (Although as I've said before repeatedly the division of > > senses into 5 categories is in itself a dualistic product of the > > discriminating mind. There is only one 'sense' and it is Buddha Nature.) > ------------------------------------ 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/
