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Without Manifestation
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Not Knowing":the ultimate deconstruction
The Ultimate description of "That"
Everything manifesting as That is a mistaken idea
Without manifestation
Buddha The Diamond Sutra: "We refer to it as a world, but there is no world."
There is no such thing as a manifestation
cuts through and destroys the manifestation
concept and all that goes with it
Don't be drawn in
Otherwise "you" will believe in the attachment
concept and be seductively deluded into all that
that state brings
Beware of believing or believing in believing
Because believing has nothing to do with anything
Beware especially of what makes sense
The Ultimate description of "That"
Everything manifesting as That is a mistaken idea
Without manifestation
Buddha The Diamond Sutra: "We refer to it as a world, but there is no world."
There is no such thing as a manifestation
cuts through and destroys the manifestation
concept and all that goes with it
Don't be drawn in
Otherwise "you" will believe in the attachment
concept and be seductively deluded into all that
that state brings
Beware of believing or believing in believing
Because believing has nothing to do with anything
Beware especially of what makes sense
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Comments
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very existence is now widely seen as doubtful. Gnomic tosh and willful obscurantism.
But perhaps clarity is kryptonite for some.
It is also the kind of material that caused any interest in Zen to shrivel on my vine.
But..its a big Dharmic world.
And I am a simple minded man.
My assumption is that if someone posts something they expect feedback.
There is mine.
by Milarepa
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Let's take this one for now, although my philological naivete regarding Mahayana texts means that my only basis for choosing it was its google rank. I am happy to refer to a different translation if it's preferable.
The Buddha's preamble in chapter 2 is In other words, this is a capstone teaching, one intended for bringing mind to "the highest, most fulfilled and awakened mind," as Subhuti puts it.
Anyone here ready to jump straight in to the "highest, most fulfilled and awakened mind" from where you are now? Complete disidentification from all defilement, not an ounce of concern about impending aging, death, illness, sorrow lamentation, despair, the entire mass of stress? Anyone here abandoned all clinging to notions of self? How's your boundless compassion going, guys?
I agree that the transcedent 8FP is advanced material.
Buddha said his dharma is 'good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good at the end'.
It's intuitive rather than logical.
Douglas Harding
The best day of my life—my rebirthday, so to speak—was when I found I had no head. This is not a literary gambit, a witticism designed to arouse interest at any cost. I mean it in all seriousness: I have no head.
It was eighteen years ago, when I was thirty-three, that I made the discovery. Though it certainly came out of the blue, it did so in response to an urgent enquiry; I had for several months been absorbed in the question: what am I? The fact that I happened to be walking in the Himalayas at the time probably had little to do with it; though in that country unusual states of mind are said to come more easily. However that may be, a very still clear day, and a view from the ridge where I stood, over misty blue valleys to the highest mountain range in the world, with Kangchenjunga and Everest unprominent among its snow-peaks, made a setting worthy of the grandest vision.
What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: I stopped thinking. A peculiar quiet, an odd kind of alert limpness or numbness, came over me. Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down. For once, words really failed me. Past and future dropped away. I forgot who and what I was, my name, manhood, animalhood, all that could be called mine.(Was he in samadhi?) It was as if I had been born that instant, brand new, mindless, innocent of all memories. There existed only the Now, that present moment and what was clearly given in it. To look was enough. And what I found was khaki trouserlegs terminating downwards in a pair of brown shoes, khaki sleeves terminating sideways in a pair of pink hands, and a khaki shirtfront terminating upwards in—absolutely nothing whatever! Certainly not in a head.
It took me no time at all to notice that this nothing, this hole where a head should have been was no ordinary vacancy, no mere nothing. On the contrary, it was very much occupied. It was a vast emptiness vastly filled, a nothing that found room for everything—room for grass, trees, shadowy distant hills, and far above them snowpeaks like a row of angular clouds riding the blue sky. I had lost a head and gained a world.
Keep Up The Good Works Fella, I Mean federica
Dear Dhamma Dhathu
But I slightly regret my words above since they may convey a wrong impression. I was making a general point. If I say, during a discussion of motion, 'Newton said that F=MA' this may seems like an appeal to authority, or it may seem like an explanation, depending on who is reading it.
I am unclear which part of 'I shall withdraw ' is ambiguous.
The "I"