Questions
With palms together
Good Morning Everyone,
People in a Buddhist world appear to disagree about a couple of elementary things: is Buddhism a religion, who is a I speaking (or writing), and, is there a self?
I will offer my own indicate of view here. First, Buddhism is a sacrament if its adherents use it religiously. Religion does not need a God, as good as a actuality which so most (including eminent dictionaries) believe it does leads to such ridiculous arguments as who or what is God. Religion needing God is a theist indicate of view. What if God is a Whole Enchilada? What if God is not? Does it matter? Will these questions get us any closer to a freedom?
The questions about self as good as an I are, it seems to me, based upon a sum disagreement as good as a box of elementary amnesia. First, remember, there have been dual truths in Buddhism, a Absolute Truth as good as a Relative Truth. These have been Big Mind, or Buddha Mind, as good as Small Mind, which is, a mind of a everyday interactions with any other as good as a space around us. Self arises as a result of a brains neurological functioning. It is a Small Mind origination as good as function. It is an interactional origination between bio-psycho-social as good as environmental factors. It is as real as a distracted stream which is stoical of most streams entrance together as good as most factors such as slope, rainfall, as good as gravity. While it is distracted it is additionally constantly changing, to illustrate it is empty of an inherent self.
We incorrectly believe which if something is empty it has no existence. Not so. If I pound you with my kyosaku it will sting as good as you will have justification of its existence, my existence, as good as your existence. Do these existences constantly change? Of course, though just since a distracted stream flows does not meant it will not bowl you over.
When you use a sacrament you allow ourselves to see a own loya! l nature . We release ourselves from a hold of a Relative Truth as good as see a law of a Absolute. This does not fall short or conquer a Relative, though rather, puts it in perspective. Minds do not need taming or conquering. They need open fields, fields with unclouded borders, functional, though permeable. They need a conviction to ramble them without fear. The growth of prajna requires this.
Be well.Zen knowledge for daily living.
Good Morning Everyone,
People in a Buddhist world appear to disagree about a couple of elementary things: is Buddhism a religion, who is a I speaking (or writing), and, is there a self?
I will offer my own indicate of view here. First, Buddhism is a sacrament if its adherents use it religiously. Religion does not need a God, as good as a actuality which so most (including eminent dictionaries) believe it does leads to such ridiculous arguments as who or what is God. Religion needing God is a theist indicate of view. What if God is a Whole Enchilada? What if God is not? Does it matter? Will these questions get us any closer to a freedom?
The questions about self as good as an I are, it seems to me, based upon a sum disagreement as good as a box of elementary amnesia. First, remember, there have been dual truths in Buddhism, a Absolute Truth as good as a Relative Truth. These have been Big Mind, or Buddha Mind, as good as Small Mind, which is, a mind of a everyday interactions with any other as good as a space around us. Self arises as a result of a brains neurological functioning. It is a Small Mind origination as good as function. It is an interactional origination between bio-psycho-social as good as environmental factors. It is as real as a distracted stream which is stoical of most streams entrance together as good as most factors such as slope, rainfall, as good as gravity. While it is distracted it is additionally constantly changing, to illustrate it is empty of an inherent self.
We incorrectly believe which if something is empty it has no existence. Not so. If I pound you with my kyosaku it will sting as good as you will have justification of its existence, my existence, as good as your existence. Do these existences constantly change? Of course, though just since a distracted stream flows does not meant it will not bowl you over.
When you use a sacrament you allow ourselves to see a own loya! l nature . We release ourselves from a hold of a Relative Truth as good as see a law of a Absolute. This does not fall short or conquer a Relative, though rather, puts it in perspective. Minds do not need taming or conquering. They need open fields, fields with unclouded borders, functional, though permeable. They need a conviction to ramble them without fear. The growth of prajna requires this.
Be well.Zen knowledge for daily living.
