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| Apr 26, 2017 at 8:28 | history | edited | Mishu 米殊 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2017 at 8:18 | comment | added | Mishu 米殊 | @GavinSerra In response to your "Red Pine" I didn't read and honestly it's not in my plan of study ;0 since I would rather read directly Huineng, Bodhidharma or the Blue Cliff Scroll it's original words. Provided time, I will do a bit of it to have discussion with you ;) maybe... | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 8:11 | comment | added | Mishu 米殊 | Like the 7 blinds describing one elephant, words are different, but they do describe the elephant. Without the elephant, no description. So is the notion of Anatta. But Theravadist can't go further, truncated there. ...All the not-Self(s) is because of the true-Self, by realizing not-Self the true-Self can be touched unstained. It's not that not-Self vs true-Self only one can be right. The reflection in the mirror is not me, but the mirror can't have a reflection on its own, right? The Buddha chose the right circumstance right audience to teach the right Dharma. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 8:11 | comment | added | Mishu 米殊 | @GavinSerra hope you're not too wasted with my prolixity :) many seemed contradicted statements can easily be found in Sutras, different masters... bare in mind that what the Path led is leading to what beyond the intellect, consciousness, name-form, concepts, words... to break free from our reality confinement resulted from 無明 (Ignorance?). But what we can do as trapped in the confinement is trying to pull it down to be reached inside this confinement, since we literally has nowhere to go, like Don Quixote pulling himself out from the swamp by pulling at his own hair. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 8:07 | comment | added | user10515 | I have the Nishijima and Cross Shobogenzo, so I'm used to long tracts of shinji (?) ... :) I've read others criticising Red Pine, so I'd be interested to get your take. His view of the skandhas was already my personal view, so my ego was flattered to find him corroborate :D I will ponder the above shapes a little more (I'm used to this from Dogen) | |
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| Apr 26, 2017 at 7:33 | comment | added | Mishu 米殊 | If he flipped the totality of this statement, it should be worded as 明鏡亦非心. Hope you could see the graphical difference if you don't read Chinese :) I think it's really quite a complex Dharma contemplation. But I would also say stating "true-Self" barely is quite risky easy resulted misinterpretation. I read somewhere you mentioned Red Pine, I read by chance small bit of his translation I would say he was - hmmm... not really get it, even misunderstood... it will need more space to explain then this little comment box though ;) | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 7:32 | comment | added | Mishu 米殊 | @GavinSerra Master Neng said, 明鏡亦非臺, flipping his Dharma brother Master Shenxiu's 心如明鏡臺, which he didn't flip 心 (Citta?), but 臺... | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 6:52 | comment | added | user10515 | The mind is often described as a mirror in Ch'an, and this is very orthodox, but I don't get it. It seems to imply a separation between things, and Hui Neng famously denied it. Maybe there's a meaning I'm not gettting... | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 6:05 | history | edited | Mishu 米殊 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2017 at 5:41 | history | answered | Mishu 米殊 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |