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It’s not a dormancy. It doesn’t retreat and lurk somewhere. Consciousness, contact and attention arise in mutual dependence from Shunyata and remain as long as the conditions remain for their continuity. This could be nano seconds or a long period. Is proof offered that sensory consciousness doesn'...

Nothing happens.It simply doesn’t arise. There is a nice Illustration from the Zen tradition. A goose flies over a lake. The goose has no intention of creating its reflection. The water has no intention of reflecting the goose..but there it is. Good one. The lake doesn't do anything to reflect the ...

It’s not a dormancy. It doesn’t retreat and lurk somewhere. Consciousness, contact and attention arise in mutual dependence from Shunyata and remain as long as the conditions remain for their continuity. This could be nano seconds or a long period.

Nothing happens.It simply doesn’t arise. There is a nice Illustration from the Zen tradition. A goose flies over a lake. The goose has no intention of creating its reflection. The water has no intention of reflecting the goose..but there it is. A combination of transient phenomena creates temporaril...

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SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:30 am It's strange to associate emptiness with nihilism because it can't be emptiness that is associated with nihilism. There is no partial emptiness but nihilism would require a partial emptiness.

Exactly so.

The whole thread developed as it did because of one key factor. TPK misunderstood Malcolm, Johnny and myself saying that compassion is a fruit of the realisation of Shunyata and not a cause of Shunyata. He then refused to listen when told that he had misunderstood and insisted that he was being told...

Very interesting thank you Mr Marsh. Your final paragraph cuts both ways of course. It is honest and right to acknowledge without triumphalism that Japanese and Tibetan Buddhadharma have common origin but very different upayas. Once that is seen clearly by all sides of the discussion attempts to im...

And you still haven’t answered Johnnie’s question.

But no one is disputing that. You are offering a solution to a problem no one has raised. The only issue is whether compassion is somehow a prerequisite for Shunyata, and clearly it isn’t. Shunyata is already always the case. Compassion is empty. Uncompassion is empty. All phenomena arise in great e...

“Compassion need not be subjective to the skill with which a person uses words”... What does that mean? I suspect that you may not know what ‘subjective’ means. I would guess that you meant to say something like “The quality of compassion and the skill with which one uses words are very different Is...

Very interesting thank you Mr Marsh. Your final paragraph cuts both ways of course. It is honest and right to acknowledge without triumphalism that Japanese and Tibetan Buddhadharma have common origin but very different upayas. Once that is seen clearly by all sides of the discussion attempts to imp...

“ it is not contextual to anything ..etc” is meaningless. I can possibly guess your meaning, but it would be a guess. As other people, including people who are attempting to aid you against the nasty people like me, keep telling you, your use of English is so idiosyncratic that it is impossible to ...

I agree.

“U” might like to know that “nibbana” is Pali. Pali is the language of the Theravada. This is a Mahayana forum.
So we would say Nirvana.
Whether wanking takes you away from Nirvana is a whole other debate. Perhaps we you tell us what you understand by Nibbana/Nirvana?

“ it is not contextual to anything ..etc” is meaningless. I can possibly guess your meaning, but it would be a guess. As other people, including people who are attempting to aid you against the nasty people like me, keep telling you, your use of English is so idiosyncratic that it is impossible to s...

No one said that an insight into shunyata arises without compassion. Malcolm said the exact opposite. He said that the realisation of shunyata gives rise to compassion. Read it again. He also said that compassion is not a CAUSE for the realisation of shunyata, by definition. If it was, Shunyata woul...

So you are saying that Malcolms reply to you showed effrontery or insolence or shameless boldness ? That it was reckless and lacked conventional thought processes? Just to remind ourselves, you said that he had “the audacity” to reject your view. The fact is Malcolm fully answered you. But you do n...

So you are saying that Malcolms reply to you showed effrontery or insolence or shameless boldness ? That it was reckless and lacked conventional thought processes? Just to remind ourselves, you said that he had “the audacity” to reject your view. The fact is Malcolm fully answered you. But you do no...

“audacity”? Dear oh dear...either you do not know what audacity means, which by cross referral to your other misuses of common words is the most likely explanation..or you have a vastly inflated idea of your own opinions. Audacity implies that you think that your statement is so superior that someon...