I think a more exact parallel is "meeting God" with "experiencing Buddha nature."
As a non-Christian mystic I wonder how you derived your theory of seeing God being fundamentally distinct from no-mind. Surely you are not speaking from experience? Credit to Brad Warner for this. Thanks, --Chris 301-270-6524 On Jun 16, 2013 8:43 AM, "Joe" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are > reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
