Edgar,
Edgar insisted:
" Understanding this mechanism is essential to Zen because only thus can one
realize 'the true nature of things'."
Falsity, and a disservice to readers. That's NOT how it happens. "Just" ask
Bill!(!)
This is where you differ from people who have progressed in practice to and
through the point that they actually awaken.
No such understanding occurs, and it is neither needed nor helpful to try to
add it on or add it in.
If you teach in this way, you are not teaching for awakening to no-mind. You
would be building yet another model in HEADS, heads of unfortunate students who
have too much going on upstairs already, as you habitually and immaturely do,
and who wouldn't know emptiness from a hole in the ground.
(This said in order to give [and others] a good laugh! Especially you)
See? Don't I know how to make Beings happy? Even despite themselves, and their
illusions.
Thus, Buddhadharma is transmitted from one warm hand to another.
Awakening and emptiness have nothing to do with computer models, much less
models of computers. You've got to blow THAT booger OUT.
And others here should not inhale it. That's SNOT where it's at.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> This is largely correct and pretty well stated. The best model is that the
> world of forms is analogous to a computer in which the laws of nature compute
> the states of nature, both being information forms, just as computer software
> and data are information forms.
>
> Just as a computer operates according to rules, so does the computational
> system of reality. In effect the universe continually computes its current
> state of existence.
>
> Understanding this mechanism is essential to Zen because only thus can one
> realize 'the true nature of things'.
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