manas wrote:The floor might well be conditionally arisen, but it still needs sweeping!"
Where did the Buddha teach that things like floors are dependently orginated?
metta
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Re: Why Meditate?
by danieLion » Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:17 am
Hi manas,
Where did the Buddha teach that things like floors are dependently orginated?
metta
Where did the Buddha teach that things like floors are dependently orginated?
metta
"You stop me, obviously with a demand for a personal explanation. 'How is it, you write, 'that you reject with such immitigable scorn the very foundation-stones of Buddhism, and yet refer disciples enthusiastically to the technique of some of its subtlest super-structures?'
I laff."
-Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Chapter XXVII: Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)
"Questions of reality are too important to be left to the scientists."
-Paul Feyerbend, The Tyranny of Science, p. 51 (Polity: 2012).
I laff."
-Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Chapter XXVII: Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)
"Questions of reality are too important to be left to the scientists."
-Paul Feyerbend, The Tyranny of Science, p. 51 (Polity: 2012).
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Re: Why Meditate?
by hanzze_ » Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:51 am
danieLion,
as fare it is told: Consciousnesses is not the "I", mind is not the "I"... the floor has just its propose to go beyond. There is no such thing as a Buddha-Nature or something inherent which just need to be cleaned.
as fare it is told: Consciousnesses is not the "I", mind is not the "I"... the floor has just its propose to go beyond. There is no such thing as a Buddha-Nature or something inherent which just need to be cleaned.
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