--- wai_dk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Alex
>
> > Both the Buddha and Nagarjuna explicitely denied
> that
> > reality could be qualified as something that
> exists.
> > Also, it could not be qualified as something that
> does
> > not exist, as well as it could not be qualified
> > something that both exists and does not exist, and
> > neither exists nor does not exist.
> > That ought to cover it all, I'd say.
>
> My dear friend, why do you want to be regurgitating
> what the Buddha
> and Nagarjuna have said. I would prefer that you
> show me something
> that's your own, from your very gut, then you'll be
> more convincing.
> Allow me to give you a hand. As you are reading my
> message, who is it
> that is at this very moment reading? Is it your
> mind, or is it your
> eyes, or is it both or is it neither? If you know
> the answer then you
> will be right at the middle of The Middle Way.
Dear wai,
Funny, you accuse me of regurgitating what the Buddha
and Nagarjuna said, admonishing me to offer you
something that is my own, and then only a couple of
paragraphs later, you accuse me of the exact opposite,
of not regurgitating what the sutras are saying. You
are apparently scandalized that I dare offer something
that's completely and irrevocably my own, never before
heard by anyone else (or, 'Bunardism', as you put it).
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe it is you who
are clinging on to what the sutras say, and who have
repeatedly been hiding behind the dogma?
> > Buddhist practice is not psychology. It is not a
> > therapy.
>
> It's not psychology. But it's most definitely a
> therapy, a medicine.
> Many Buddhist sutras say that.
Yeah, but what do YOU say?
> > Attachment, grasping and clinging are perfectly
> fine.
> > They are only a problem if you somehow imagine
> them to
> > be a problem. The resolution of that impasse is to
> > experience satori, which, at that moment, will
> > undeniably demonstrate to you that there is
> absolutely
> > nothing wrong with the attachment, rejection,
> > grasping, clinging etc.
>
> In my almost ten years as a Buddhist, you are the
> very first person
> that I've encountered to see attachment, grasping
> and clinging as
> perfectly fine in the Buddhist context. Do you know
> that in many, if
> not all, of the sutras, the Buddha and the Patriachs
> say that
> attachment, etc. are diseases of the mind?
So we're back to regurgitating, are we? Why don't you
listen to your own advice and tell me what is your gut
telling you, instead of hiding behind the Buddhas and
the Patriarchs?
You obviously haven't studied Nagarjuna's teaching.
Furthermore, you haven't apparently even paid
attention to the most fundamental of all Buddhist
teachings, the Heart sutra. If you like to hide behind
the sutras, that would be the one to choose. In it, it
is explained how attachment, grasping, clinging,
rejection etc. are of no concern to Prajnaparamita.
> If you seriously want to teach Buddhism, I very
> *sincerely* urge you
> to conform to the established terminology of the
> Buddhist community.
Thanks for your sincerity, but I will never do such
thing. My job is to be subversive, not to toe the
party line. I'm sticking it to the man!
> It will really help to avoid much unnecessary
> confusion for yourself
> as well as others. Unless, of course, what you are
> teching is Alexism
> (or Bunardism?).
You are correct. Since I'm not into regurgitating, I
can only teach my own brand of spiritual practice (or
lack of it thereoff).
Best regards,
Alex
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