Welcome home! Please contact lincoln@icrontic.com if you have any difficulty logging in or using the site. New registrations must be manually approved which may take several days. Can't log in? Try clearing your browser's cookies.
Can we give samsara away?
lobster
Crusty Veteran
What is the nature of the residing?
In other words does the Buddha Nature have qualities such as compassion, wisdom, joy etc? From what I know and understand it does? These qualities transcend or are outside of conventional emotive, transitory arisings but innate? In a sense they are empty of self and yet have a fullness of expression?
In our samsara addiction we cling to our practices, habitual patterns and painful and selfish emotions or their emptiness. Can we give samsara away? Why are we so strange? Perhaps generosity involves giving up ignorance?
I may have a plan . . . do good, harm none (including ourself most of all). Simple to say. A lifetime to practice.
http://www.harryhiker.com/goldrule.htm
3
Comments
http://www.alessandra.com/abouttony/aboutpr.asp
@Lobster
I think Buddha Nature simply refers to an inate grace that is enlightment itself.
Inseperable from all and yet our own becoming was supposedly spawned from a disbelief of this truth.
Your Gifting of Samsara, however does makes it sound like a spiritually transmitted disease, so I'll pass.
Cheers
Suffering, dukkha, the arising is all samsaric, temporary . . . and Nirvana too (so they say). Does the non arising sleep on the cessation of the Tathagata?
We can not give Nirvana away even if it never arises.
A special transmission outside the scriptures;
No dependence on words and letters;
Direct pointing to the mind of man;
Seeing into one's nature and attaining Buddhahood.
Let's hope it catches on . . .
:wave:
People went to the Buddha for miracles. He gave them teaching. The platinum rule would keep everyone comfortably z z z . . .
The Mustard Seed
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/btg/btg85.htm