Malcolm wrote:muni wrote:Freedom from I and its' biased perception = no form, no feeling, no perception, no impulses... Then no eyes, no nose, no ears, no body, no tongue, no mind...no object of mind = no grasping-no clinging. Not conditioned.
Then seeing, hearing, smelling..............I-less no clinging.
Suffer and harm due to the sense or apprehended belief in "I -thought" = sentient beings.
Bases on this plant clearly qualify, since they defend themselves...
Very interesting. What we call human sentient being often do so with the intention/the wish or thought to harm the other, in order to protect "self". Or selfishly with the idea for for own profit. Not a spontaneous reaction devoid of I-idea on the back ground. Should it be so plants react spontaneously, I mean without any such idea?
Then for me most important is to see own clinging, to be free. I (me, mine, my) is the tree and its’ branches are the afflictions. When we cut the branches, there can often new branches grow. By cutting the root of the tree, which is I, branches cannot be by themselves. Then sentient beings - dream isn’t. (practice) Indeed Buddhism has many ways/practices to help.
Ps dear readers, I do not say cut tree, this is metaphor. Lol.