--- In [email protected], Alex Bunard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basically, any time we examine anything, we realize > that we cannot find it. It always turns out that it > depends on something else. And then that something > else, when examined, turns out to depend on something > else, and so on, it's an endless chain that has no > beginning and no end. > > That, in itself, is shunyata -- the realization that > there absolutely is no substance to be found anywhere. > Everything is merely an imputation by the deluded > dreamer. >
is the insubstantiality of "all that we impune or ascribe" the same thing as "the impossibility of existence"... it certainly seems true that our suffering is because we cling to some wrong notion. Thank you Alex, j > The only possible way out of suffering is acknowleging > the Buddha's teaching on impossibility of existence. > The very reason why we suffer is because we cling to > existence, cling to substantiality. And since > existence and substantiality are erroneously perceived > (i.e. misperceived) and erroneously conceived (i.e. > misconceived) ideas, it is possible to correct the > error. And that's what the Buddhist practice is all > about -- correcting the error. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Would you Help a Child in need? It is easier than you think. Click Here to meet a Child you can help. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0Z9NuA/I_qJAA/i1hLAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> 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/
