Bill!, Edgar,
Nobody's act of "defining" changes the fact that one is an experience and one
is an illusion.
Christian Contemplative Mystics experience God, and they suppose that the
"Buddha Nature" they've heard about is some poor unsaved person's illusion;
Zen Buddhists experience Buddha Nature and suppose that "God" must be somebody
elses' illusion who has not yet heard of Buddhadharma.
But a distinction we can draw is that Buddha Nature is experienced only when
there is No-Mind. God is an experience of people who stop at One-Mind in their
practice.
This is why a Zen teacher is absolutely necessary to guide a practitioner to
*keep going* in intensive practice, and not to stop at One-Mind. One cannot do
this oneself. If you stop at One-Mind (a quite wonderful state, itself), you
do not experience No-Mind, and you do not therefore know Zen, and Zen-Mind,
which is No-Mind.
--Joe
> "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> Edgar,
>
> Yes, I see that you define them as the same thing. That's fine. I don't
> however. I assume that's fine too...
>
> ...Bill!
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