> > > "All truth is relative" is an absolutist > > > statement. > > > > > Neither from itself nor from another, > > Nor from both, > > Nor without a cause, > > Does anything whatever, anywhere arise. > > emptybill: > So how can you live with yourself knowing > you're just a lie? > Because there is no 'self' and no 'truth' to arise?
Can you figure that out, Bill? It's so simple that I thought you'd get it, since you're studying Mahayana Buddhism under a high lama. So, let's take it from the top: Change is impossible; things do not move hither and yon; one thing does not become another thing. Suffering, actions, bodies, doers, and results are all unreal. The Seven States of Conciousness are also unreal. There is neither suffering nor its causation nor a path to its cessation. The three gunas are unreal and there is neither the Movement, nor the Technique, nor the Maharishi. Excerpt from mahAyAna sutra lAnkarA: "Pure conciousness is the only Reality. By its nature, it is Self-luminous." (XIII, 13). "Thus shaking off duality, he directly percieves the Absolute which is the unity underlying phenomena (dharmadAtu)." (VI, 7) Sharma, p. 112-113 Read more: Subject: vijnApti matratA siddhi by vasAabAndhu Author: Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: February 8, 2005 http://tinyurl.com/4z6r939
