And, Chris,
A few people who know God, or profess to, from time to time take the Lord's
name in vain. Is this trivializing God? Does their doing this hurt their
career as saved Christians?
No; the blood of their Savior/Messiah washes away this sin, or has already
atoned for it.
In Zen practice, I think that no matter what concepts we trivialize, or have
trivialized previously, our practice will save us, provided we practice, have a
teacher, sangha, sit regularly, etc.
I've still never seen anyone trivialize Buddha Nature, not even by making it an
image of itself. In fact, I'd like to see some such image, made by someone.
Maybe by "trivialize" you mean what Joe Campbell means when he writes
"concretize".
--Joe
> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> I think we can find people on this very listserv that trivialize Buddha
> nature, making it a picture of itself rather.
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