--- In [email protected], "rod_scholl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> of ideas, sensible or not. But when you see through these ideas (as
> merely unreasonable constructs), all one is left to do is to BE the
> one source by ACTING as the one source. There is likely no bother to
> capture it as "knowledge" by trying to forumulate a consistent IDEA of
> it other than continued habit... which will fade with practice.
Dear Rod,
First of all, I realize the concepts I'll be using in the next phrases
(and this one) have their limitations, but I'm only trying to point here.
If this fading of habit were taken to the extreme, wouldn't that mean
that the world of sounds becomes a cacophony, a chaos? That the world
of sight became one big undistinghuishable inkstain?
A Japanese description of the levels of realization (there are levels
in realization if we take the word of Mat-Tzu, Hakuin, a.o.) that I've
always found a helpful indicator is:
Shi Hokai The Four Dharmadhātu:
1) ji hokkai: realm of phenomena
(Mountains are mountains)
2) ri hokkai: view of the dharma realm as the perception of all things
in the universe as true thusness
(mountains are no longer mountains)
3) riji muge: non-obstruction between principle and phenomena
(mountains are mountains again)
4) jiji muge: non-obstruction between individual phenomena
(but it's a pity to say so)
in gassho,
Bob
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