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Re: The Wave analogy
The five aggregates are what you are (you are the water), but they're not self in any sense. To realize your true nature, your Buddha-Nature, the nature of emptiness, you have to see that you're part… (View Post)
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Re: The film that killed the Ambassador.
Well @caz there are some rednecks and others here in the States that are just as backward if not more so. If anyone portrayed Jesus like that, and was within the "sphere" of these people, t… (View Post)
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Re: The Wave analogy
Probably the same problem with a lot of the Zen-speke. Though it's the closest it can get to saying plain-out how things are, it's worlds away from normal delusional thought and so comes off as gibbe… (View Post)
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Re: The Wave analogy
The wave is never something separate from the ocean. It's just water moving in different ways. We're just emptiness taking on different forms, dependently originated, not separate from the "ocea… (View Post)
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Re: everything happens for a reason.
Everything happens due to causes and conditions. Otherwise "for a reason" means intended by some higher power... Buddhism isn't into the whole "higher power" thing. :) (View Post)1