what is AYPsite.com? merle
I am very very impressed with how you lived your life. I found this, well, to be frank, all too late. I knew about it, read about it, even tried it a few times but I didn't get more interested until I was desperate. Thanks, Larry PS I've sort of belonged to a open internet group with a terrific moderator. It's called AYPsite.com. On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Bill! <[email protected]> wrote: > >Mike, > >No and Yes... > >The "no" part is that I experienced Buddha Nature on my own before >encountering zen. I'm sure we all have. When we were infants before our >intellect was developed enough to create the delusion of duality/plurality I >believe we were experiencing Buddha Nature. Also, even later, when we became >completely absorbed in something, like sports or art or nature, we also may >have experienced Buddha Nature. In my case however I just did not know what >it was and its significance. > >The "yes" part is that it was first reading about zen (Alan Watts) and then >formal Zen Buddhist training (Japanese Rinzai and Soto schools) that enabled >me to rediscover Buddha Nature, learn to purposely experience it, appreciate >its significance and begin to integrate it more fully into my daily life. > >...Bill! > >--- In [email protected], uerusuboyo@... wrote: >> >> Bill!,<br/><br/>Would you agree that you probably would never have >> experienced 'zen' without Siddharta Gotama's enlightenment and the spreading >> of the sutras? I agree that experiencing Buddha Nature is not intrinsically >> dependent on them, but it may as well be. Without Buddha's rediscovering of >> Buddha Nature we'd probably still be believing in souls and the reality of >> an ego. <br/><br/>Mike<br/><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad >> > > -- Larry Maher
