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Re: Agency, Who is the doer? [Re: Nillion] 1
#28614008 - 01/08/24 11:14 AM (19 days, 19 hours ago) |
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I've been looking at the red pine one lately. I like it cause he includes excerpts from other commentaries that go into so much detail. Its like hand holding through a deeper contemplation (sometimes hand holding seems appopriate, sometimes independent contemplation seems appropriate)
for example many of the sutras start with "Thus have I heard:", red pine says:
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Commentators have written volumes on the profundity of evan (thus). Does it mean “like so,” or does it mean “just so”? And what is the difference? Is this sutra the finger that points to the moon, or is it the moon itself? Li Wen-hui says, “‘Thus’ is another word for our nature. Outside of our nature, nothing else is real.” Tao-ch’uan says, “The Way of the ancients was said to be ‘just so.’ For by the time they talked about it, it had already changed. But when the Way changes, where does it go? Spit it out! It doesn’t run off just anywhere. Where does it actually go? Speak! Words won’t burn your mouth. Just: on a clear still night the moon shines alone. So: water doesn’t exist apart from waves. The waves are water.” Chiang Wei-nung says, “When people believe something, they say ‘it is thus.’ When they don’t believe something, they say, ‘it is not thus.’ The Avatamsaka Sutra says, ‘Belief marks the beginning of the Path. It is the mother of virtues and protector of all good dharmas.’ (6) Belief is the first gate on the Path. Hence, this expression is placed at the very beginning.”
Sometimes the slightest change in looking at something can be revealing.
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Re: Agency, Who is the doer? [Re: Asante] 1
#28614189 - 01/08/24 02:59 PM (19 days, 16 hours ago) |
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what is god?
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Re: Agency, Who is the doer? [Re: tree frog] 1
#28632183 - 01/23/24 02:35 PM (4 days, 16 hours ago) |
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I think once you get a clear enough glimpse of the emptiness of self, that organizing principle stops working, and entropy or deconditioning starts dissolving the self constructs, which leads to a sort of progression on a path, where new vistas continue to open along the way. This process may be helped along through practices.
And for clarity, the appearance of self returns (typically), its just that once its seen for what it is (or isn't), its power to organize the conditioning process is lost or diminished.
It may be that without that glimpse, practices are a continuation of a self practicing, although by accident one may forget the self while practicing.
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Re: Agency, Who is the doer? [Re: tree frog] 2
#28633178 - 01/24/24 11:03 AM (3 days, 20 hours ago) |
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syncro said: Longchenpa
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tree frog said: Longchenpa
A Buddhist nun from Australia reads a lot of great texts from different traditions. She has 56 videos just reading Longchenpa:
I like the way she reads
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWzYrEdlV4O7TzD927svErYJ1sH58arEi
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Re: Agency, Who is the doer? [Re: tree frog] 4
#28634641 - 01/25/24 03:18 PM (2 days, 15 hours ago) |
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This one might give away the blind ass' name:
KOAN:
Yun Men imparted some words saying, "Everyone has a light; when you look at it, you don't see it and it's dark and dim. What is everybody's light?"
He himself answered on their behalf, "The kitchen pantry and the main gate." He also said, "A good thing isn't as good as nothing.”
POEM:
"Spontaneously shining, bathed in solitary light
It is an open secret
Flowers fall, the tree has no shadow
Look! Who does not see?
Seeing, not seeing
Ride the OX backward and enter the Buddha Hall"
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Re: Agency, Who is the doer? [Re: syncro] 2
#28635479 - 01/26/24 10:21 AM (1 day, 20 hours ago) |
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Buddhist texts can be confusing because sometimes 'mind' refers to all inclusive awareness (which includes the body) and sometimes to thought
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Re: Agency, Who is the doer? [Re: syncro] 3
#28635728 - 01/26/24 03:19 PM (1 day, 15 hours ago) |
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There are as many paths to God as there are souls on earth.
I also didn't mean to imply it as a different path per se, but an emphasis. I imagine there are similar practices in Buddhism, as the principle of bhuta shuddhi, purification of the elements, though my personal uses of the body ideas are beyond purification, in how things manifest and are described.
There are principles in the yogas of taking on new bodies, a divine body which I fit with trikaya, the threefold bodies of Buddha.
There are many body/energy purification practices in Buddhism. Even the basic meditation posture opens the body. Breathe meditation is purifying and gets more and more subtle.
There are also things like Tsa Lung and Tummo practices and many more
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Re: Agency, Who is the doer? [Re: spinvis] 3
#28635964 - 01/26/24 05:48 PM (1 day, 13 hours ago) |
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The practice of true reality is simply to sit serenely in silent introspection. When you have fathomed this you cannot be turned around by external causes and conditions. This empty, wide open mind is subtly and correctly illuminating. Spacious and content, without confusion from inner thoughts of grasping, effectively overcome habitual behavior and realize the self that is not possessed by emotions. You must be broad-minded, whole without relying on others. Such upright independent spirit can begin not to pursue degrading situations. Here you can rest and become clean, pure, and lucid. Bright and penetrating, you can immediately return, accord, and respond to deal with events. Everything is unhindered, clouds gracefully floating up to the peaks, the moonlight glitteringly flowing down mountain streams. The entire place is brightly illumined and spiritually transformed, totally unobstructed and clearly manifesting responsive interaction like box and lid or arrowpoints [meeting) .? Continuing, cultivate and nourish yourself to enact maturity and achieve stability. If you accord everywhere with thorough clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, like the white bull or wildcat [helping to arouse wonder] , you can be called a complete person. So we hear that this is how one on the way of non-mind acts, but before realizing non-mind we still have great hardship.
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Re: Agency, Who is the doer? [Re: syncro] 2
#28637458 - 01/27/24 10:05 PM (9 hours, 1 minute ago) |
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Internal family systems is a great way to work with our perturbed parts, and it aligns with non duality really well too
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