ABSOLUTELY! Although I'd even drop the list of "see, hear, touch, taste, smell,*" and just use the word 'experience'. When you're just experiencing (Buddha Nature) there is no discrimination between seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. It's all Just THIS!
* I've intentionally left out "think" because I do not consider that an experience and not part of Buddha Nature. I know that's not orthodox, but that's what I have experienced and now believe. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "pudgala2" <pudgala2@...> wrote: > > > As soon as you see something, > The unenlightened only see what their preconditioned constituent > sentient beings (beliefs, attitudes, opinions, moods, values, etc.) will > allow or force them to see and nothing more, > > you already start to intellectualize it. > sentient beings automatically process it. > > > As soon as you intellectualize something, > As soon as sentient beings process something, > > it is no longer what you saw. > only the mental results of what sentient beings made up your mind to see > will be seen. > > > The Enlightened see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and think immediately > without opinionated processing. > > > --- In [email protected], "Bill!" wrote: > > > As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. > As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw. > ~ Sunryu Suzuki > > I call these intellectualizations 'perceptions' or 'delusions'. > ...Bill! > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
