Edgar, Bill!, All,
A nice bedtime story, and exposition of Lazy Man's "zen".
An excuse not to practice, "Buji zen", and a cover for one's failure to
continue practice to awakening, and after. A scenario created by ego, shame,
and inadequacy to the task. A taking up residence in a side-alley instead,
truly Skid Row, and so sad to observe.
Realization in Zen is not an understanding, or a model.
It is the simultaneous arising of Wisdom and Compassion, in accord with
circumstances and continuing endlessly as one continues practice.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> This is another one difficult to put into words exactly so bear with me.....
>
> First to clear the air what I call Zen is realization of Buddha Nature in ALL
> things without exception. Everything is Buddha Nature, whether its original
> formlessness or all the forms that manifest it.
>
> Thus all beings are themselves also empty forms inhabiting the world of
> forms, but their essence, like the essence of all things, is Buddha Nature.
>
> The world of forms is like ripples, waves and currents in an ocean. The have
> no substance of their own. They are entirely manifestations of the underlying
> water. Likewise the world of forms is all empty forms in the sea of Buddha
> Nature. They have no substances of their own. They are all manifestations of
> the underlying formless Buddha Nature that is their only substance.
>
> Reality consists of the ocean of formless Buddha Nature and all the empty
> forms that exist within in it.
>
> All beings are themselves empty forms manifesting like waves in the all
> encompassing sea of Buddha Nature.
>
> Thus all beings are already enlightened because their only substance is that
> of the underlying formless Buddha Nature.
>
> Realized beings are the ones that understand this as opposed to the ones that
> don't.
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