tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post2600486336994906864..comments2024-03-18T10:07:38.422+08:00Comments on Awakening to Reality: Sensation, the Key to SatipatthānaSohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-86872474388866411562019-01-03T23:56:35.948+08:002019-01-03T23:56:35.948+08:00Session Start: Tuesday, 10 July, 2007
(11:35 AM) ...<br /><br />Session Start: Tuesday, 10 July, 2007<br /><br />(11:35 AM) Thusness: lzls last time used to say something like we should 'yi jue' (rely on awareness) and not 'yi xin' (rely on thoughts) bcos jue is everlasting, thoughts are impermanent... something like that<br />(11:35 AM) Thusness: this is not right.<br />(11:35 AM) Thusness: this is advaita teaching.<br />(11:35 AM) AEN: oic<br />(11:36 AM) Thusness: now what is most difficult to understand in buddhism is this.<br />(11:36 AM) Thusness: to experience the unchanging is not difficult.<br />(11:36 AM) AEN: icic..<br />(11:38 AM) Thusness: but to experience impermanence yet know the unborn nature is prajna wisdom.<br />(11:38 AM) AEN: oic<br />(11:38 AM) Thusness: it would be a misconception to think that Buddha do not know the state of unchanging.<br />(11:38 AM) Thusness: or when Buddha tok about unchanging it is referring to an unchanging background.<br />(11:39 AM) AEN: icic..<br />(11:39 AM) Thusness: otherwise why would i have stressed so much about the misunderstanding and misinterpretation.<br />(11:39 AM) Thusness: And of course, it is a misunderstanding that I have not experienced the unchanging. :)<br />(11:39 AM) AEN: oic<br />(11:42 AM) Thusness: what u must know is to develop the insight into impermanence and yet realised the unborn.<br />(11:42 AM) Thusness: this then is prajna wisdom.<br />(11:42 AM) Thusness: to 'see' permanence and say it is unborn is momentum.<br />(11:42 AM) Thusness: when buddha say permanence it is not referring to that.<br />(11:42 AM) AEN: icic..<br />(11:43 AM) Thusness: to go beyond the momentum u must be able to be naked for a prolong period of time.<br />(11:44 AM) Thusness: then experience impermanence itself, not labelling anything.<br />(11:44 AM) Thusness: the seals is even more important than the buddha in person.<br />(11:44 AM) Thusness: even buddha when misunderstood it becomes sentient. :)<br />(11:47 AM) Thusness: longchen wrote an interesting passage<br />(11:47 AM) Thusness: on closinggap<br />(11:47 AM) AEN: which one<br />(11:47 AM) Thusness: reincarnation.<br />(11:47 AM) AEN: oh ya i read it<br />(11:48 AM) Thusness: the one he clarify kyo's reply?<br />(11:50 AM) AEN: ya<br />(11:50 AM) Thusness: that reply is a very important reply<br />(11:50 AM) Thusness: and it also proves that longchen has realised the importance of transients<br />(11:50 AM) AEN: oic..<br />(11:50 AM) Thusness: and the five aggregates as buddha nature<br />(11:50 AM) Thusness: time for unborn nature<br />(11:51 AM) AEN: icic<br />(11:51 AM) Thusness: u c, it takes one to go through such phases, from "I AM" to Non-dual to isness then to the very very basic of what buddha taught...<br />(11:51 AM) Thusness: can u see that?<br />(11:52 AM) AEN: yea<br />(11:52 AM) Thusness: the more one experience, the more truth one sees in what buddha taught in the most basic teaching.<br />(11:53 AM) Thusness: whatever longchen experience is not because he read what buddha taught, but because he really experience it.<br />(11:54 AM) AEN: icic..Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-16934048257928484522018-12-18T23:01:05.222+08:002018-12-18T23:01:05.222+08:00Problem with such teachings as the article above,i...<br /><br />Problem with such teachings as the article above,is that one aldy hv preconceived notion of what reality is....Take eg, impermanent,one dogmatically believe everything is impermanent and trying to 'investigate' such notion...In the end , its kind of 'fake it till you make it' ...and one simply sees according to those deeply held viewpoints...<br /><br />If 'everything is impermanent' is deeply held as ultimate truth,then theres no more room for the possibility that there may be something permanent at all ....<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com