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Date: Feb 27, 2007 17:13
Noel Friesen wrote:
> Tang, no one knows who they are or what they do. Thoughts come and thoughts
> go. When they arise they pass into awareness. If you have a thought that
> feels right or correct. That feeling of rightness or correctness is also
> caused. The causes leading to rightness and correctness are conditioned.
>
> All thoughts, delusive or not are caused by conditions that do not
> themselves pass into awareness. Knowing is a skhanda. Knowing is empty.
> There is nothing to know and no one to know it.
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> In a sense a buddha is just as ignorant as the most unenlightened. The only
> difference is how much each suffers.
I fully agree with the last part:
"Knowing is empty. There is nothing to know and no one
to know it.
In a sense a buddha is just as ignorant as the most
unenlightened. The only difference is how much each
suffers."
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Date: Feb 27, 2007 17:12
RaaN wrote:
> Your post would really make me livid except
> that I realise I really don't care :)
You could package your reaction and sell it.
Some people may want to buy it. However
they would miss being livid, jumping up
and down in self-righteous indignity and
mounting a huge scene!
Of course being livid, jumping up and down in
self-righteous indignity and mounting a huge
scene doesn't quite show mindfulness, but who
cares about that? Surely not on Buddhist NGs!
Tang Huyen
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Author:
Date: Feb 27, 2007 17:11
Noel Friesen wrote:
> "stumper"
>
>> Have you seen the Buddha yet?
>
> that's a tricky question. Please don't tempt me.
Please expound on what you have seen, or have
not seen, or whatever.
Tang Huyen
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Author: rcrc
Date: Feb 27, 2007 16:37
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:37:56 -0600, 2968 wrote
(in article Xref: news.sisna.com
microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript:148364Re: Mars Needs Women):
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>> DDj. Chapter.42
>> Sentence.1
>>
>> PinYin+Arabic numeral:
>> "Dao sheng 1,
>> 1 sheng 2,
>> 2 sheng 3,
>> 3 sheng wanwu."
>>
>>
>> note:
>> here:
>> Dao=metaphysical Wu
>> 1 ...
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Author: GeFGeF
Date: Feb 27, 2007 16:20
Ned Ludd wrote:
> "GeF" org.org> wrote in message
> news:45e376b3$0$25949$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr...>>>>> I was a jerk like you once.
>>>> Well, thanks for trolling by. This is the last time I take the bait.
>>>
>>> A man may make a remark -
>>> In itself a quiet thing,
>>> That may furnish the fuse unto a spark
>>> In dormant nature lain.
>>>
>>> Let us deport with skill,
>>> Let us discourse with care;
>>> Powder exists in charcoal -
>>> Before it exists in fire.
>>>
>>> - Emily
>> Would that thought have crossed Hui Neng's mind..
>> We'd have Passion Zen instead of clear pool Zen
>> Zazen would be "kindling meditation.." ...
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Author: virtualadeptsvirtualadepts
Date: Feb 27, 2007 16:17
Buddhists teach us to be aware of the temporary nature of reality.
This wisdom seems very obvious when looking back on your life. I was
a child, and I grew up to become an adolescent. I became a man, and
may still have children of my own. One day I am sure to die. So we
automatically believe everything should be temporary. Our lives
perhaps are symbols of change, and impermanence. As human beings we
were not created to be statues here only to symbolize eras and ages.
This is the semblance of reality, change. But as scientists we
understand the eternal nature of reality. Really there is no change,
there is no end, there is no begining. There is no escape from the
eternal, and in death what we expect is transformation into a new
spiritual life. Yhe universe, even in all its metaphysical...
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Author: Hollywood LeeHollywood Lee
Date: Feb 27, 2007 14:39
stumper wrote:
> Hollywood Lee wrote:
>> Noel Friesen wrote:
>>
>>> Tang, no one knows who they are or what they do.
>>
>> I just gotta know. How is it you know that "no one knows who they are
>> or what they do"?
>>
>> Perhaps you were just being dramatic and meant to say "in my
>> experience, it seems that I and those I have met do not know who they
>> are and what they do, but that I could be wrong."?
>
>
> It's a lot worse than that.
>
> He might be saying that
> it's theoretically impossible
> for anyone to know who they are
> or what they do. ...
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Author: stumperstumper
Date: Feb 27, 2007 14:24
Hollywood Lee wrote:
> Noel Friesen wrote:
>
>> Tang, no one knows who they are or what they do.
>
> I just gotta know. How is it you know that "no one knows who they are
> or what they do"?
>
> Perhaps you were just being dramatic and meant to say "in my experience,
> it seems that I and those I have met do not know who they are and what
> they do, but that I could be wrong."?
It's a lot worse than that.
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Author: stumperstumper
Date: Feb 27, 2007 14:22
GeF wrote:
> Tang Huyen wrote:
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>>
>> The people who have crashed and who have not
>> recovered offer stark, vivid examples of
>> fragmentation. The end-result of Buddhist
>> practice should be a state of calm, peace, serenity
>> and easefulness, where one is so comfortable with
>> oneself that one lets one's self go. One is then in
>> self-presence and self-possession, though there is
>> no self around. The people who have crashed and
>> who have not recovered are at antipodes with that.
>> They are zombies who don't know who they are
>> and what they do. They fragment into parts that
>> don't know each other and don't recognise each
>> other's actions. It's not like they lost the plot, it is
>> like there is no central coordination. They are like
>> a bunch of disjecta membra floating loose,
>> independently of each other and fighting with ...
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Author: Hollywood LeeHollywood Lee
Date: Feb 27, 2007 14:00
Noel Friesen wrote:
> Tang, no one knows who they are or what they do.
I just gotta know. How is it you know that "no one knows who they are
or what they do"?
Perhaps you were just being dramatic and meant to say "in my experience,
it seems that I and those I have met do not know who they are and what
they do, but that I could be wrong."?
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