True self

pauliwago

Kosho Uchiyama, in his book "Opening the hand of thought", explains those terms. Sometimes self and Self are distinguished by capital letter. It gives a whole new (or should I say correct?) meaning to the famous verse of Dogen:

To study Buddhism is to study the Self.
To study the Self is to forget the self.

I thought this was really clever.

Dakini

yeah, that's kind of cool. Almost makes me want to take up Zen.

xabir

http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-anatta-emptiness-and-spontaneous.html?m=1

Should should have posted this one I feel http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2007/03/thusnesss-six-stages-of-experience.html

taiyaki

@xabir

The whole site!

seeker242

Chan Master Sheng Yen has a good dharma talk here about Buddha Nature and Ignorance. The first thing he says: "Buddha Nature is pure and unchanging:. He also says: "To reach the universal, eternal and unchanging requires a great deal of faith and practice."

http://www.shengyen.org/e_content/content/books/books_02.aspx?sid=3&MType=2&SType=