JM, You say, 'Diamond Sutra said nothing. It is just a tool for awakening.' If so, why do you keep quoting it? Are you aware that Diamond Sutra was composed at least 500 years after Buddha's demise? That is a consensus of modern Buddhist scholars. Nevertheless, it is an excellent sutra. Anthony
--- On Fri, 20/5/11, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Self Nature To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 20 May, 2011, 10:39 PM ED, Thank you for your concern. I thank you. Let me say a few things about the value of my posts. My teacher does not want us to record, memorize, take notes, catalog his speeches, because when the moment passes, they are no longer valid, because they will be out of context --- emotional, logical, sequential and circumstantial context. So did Buddha and Jesus. My teacher always remind us that Diamond Sutra said nothing. It is just a tool for awakening. My posts are not mine. Most of my posts are borrowed, copied, plagiarized from some where. They are very very narrow in scope, while I suppose to cover ALL, because that is what Chan is. Chan is ALL. Therefore my posts are always partial and incomplete by nature. My posts server one purpose, to awaken someone. Often that someone may not be the person named in the post. To conclude, my posts contains no value, especially after the effect.Thank you for thinking of me. :-) Have a nice day. JM Learn to de-stress, energize and awaken http://www.chan-meditation.com Learn to live with Health, Happiness and Harmony http://www.chanliving.org Learn to reach enlightenment http://www.heartchan.org To save the world http://www.universal-oneness.org On 5/20/2011 6:27 AM, ED wrote: Bill, In your opinion, is this below an acceptable 'Zen' teaching, or is it an unnecessary accretion to Zen? JMJM, the above is an honest and straightforward question, which I hope does not offend you. Thanks, ED --- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > > > Our tradition's main emphasis is a practice. By focusing on our "heart" > > to sync the "heart" of the universe, we shall witness self nature. Our > > practitioners has also witness the heart to be the core, the chi, the > > center, the essence, the love, the current, the energy, the big chakra, > > the conduit, the whole being, the entirety, etc.
