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Malcolm wrote:You cannot teach Dharma through the mail or email. This is why there is no teaching of Dharma here.
I guess that answers my question about the efficacy of undies.
I think there can be no doubt that Kanzeon's used undies, should one be so fortunate as to obtain them, would be extremely efficacious.
For a split moment, on reading your comment, I had the impression of a sublime fragrance. No joke. Synesthesia? Or an actual whiff of Avalokitesvara's jock strap? The experience was like the first time I smelled Drakkar. or CK1. or Jitterbug Perfume.
Ah, must have been an illusion because how could something like that be communicated through this medium.
I don't know. It must have been the roses.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
Queequeg wrote:
How about telecast - ie. the live feed is one way?
Yup.
Here's what I'm getting - the interaction with a teacher must be temporally immediate, but not spatially immediate.
The interaction must be through the medium of a common language - mediation through an interpreter OK.
The interaction does not have to be mutual - in the sense of individual intercourse - but interaction from teacher to student is the critical factor.
How about telecast, in a language I don't understand, but with subtitles...
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
dzogchungpa wrote:I think there can be no doubt that Kanzeon's used undies, should one be so fortunate as to obtain them, would be extremely efficacious.
For a split moment, on reading your comment, I had the impression of a sublime fragrance. No joke. Synesthesia? Or an actual whiff of Avalokitesvara's jock strap?
It's a DW miracle!
Queequeg wrote:The experience was like the first time I smelled Drakkar. or CK1. or Jitterbug Perfume.
For me the corresponding aroma would be Opium (the perfume) combined with cigarette smoke.
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
The olfactory sense door is totally underestimated... Like Napoleon, I tell my wife not to shower if I've been away and we are to rendez-vous.
A follow up question...
What if you are not immediately present- in person or remotely via the mediums discussed above - but hear an accurate account of the oral teaching from someone who was in attendance?
To make this discussion more explicit, you guys are talking about Direct Introduction... right?
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
Queequeg wrote:The olfactory sense door is totally underestimated... Like Napoleon, I tell my wife not to shower if I've been away and we are to rendez-vous.
What a way to renounce the world.
When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on any one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there. One who has understood this is no different from Kannon with a thousand arms and a thousand eyes.
— Takuan Sōhō, the Unfettered Mind
Taco_Rice wrote:
What a way to renounce the world.
Why would anyone want to do that?
"Every sight and scent is the Middle Way itself."
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
Taco_Rice wrote:
What a way to renounce the world.
Why would anyone want to do that?
"Every sight and scent is the Middle Way itself."
The scent of spiced wine, of course.
When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on any one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there. One who has understood this is no different from Kannon with a thousand arms and a thousand eyes.
— Takuan Sōhō, the Unfettered Mind
dzogchungpa wrote:Dude, all phenomena are one scent as the dharmadhātu.
Like cocaine? Or am I missing something here?
When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on any one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there. One who has understood this is no different from Kannon with a thousand arms and a thousand eyes.
— Takuan Sōhō, the Unfettered Mind
Of course, you're presumably not a full blown enlightened being, so following that line of cocaine to its end game probably doesn't end well.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
Of course, you're presumably not a full blown enlightened being, so following that line of cocaine to its end game probably doesn't end well.
Neither does the bee situation.
When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on any one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there. One who has understood this is no different from Kannon with a thousand arms and a thousand eyes.
— Takuan Sōhō, the Unfettered Mind
What is this simultaneity important for? Certainly not for relaying teachings.
1Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek? 2If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing. 3Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata. 4With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Astus wrote:What is this simultaneity important for? Certainly not for relaying teachings.
Yes, it is important for relaying the teachings. We have already discussed this you and I. Not into a repeat.
Can you link the discussion?
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
Malcolm wrote:
It was in a thread on direct introduction
Of course it was. Thanks.
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There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
1Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek? 2If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing. 3Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata. 4With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"