Anthony: I meant from the post addresed to you. Thanks for the correction. I posted two links from different sources in order to read the variety description. If you notice the link from India is influenced by the culture in India. And the one from the Wiki sounds from a different Country Culture. This was just to point it out that descriptions given about Mahayana can vary. There are common points such as the boddhisatva paths and sutras... And as for the comment of boddhisatvas I'd like to say that real boddhisatvas don't do anything you mention. I believe that we all are natural boddhisatvas as soon as we sit down and manage to hold there with all that stuff arising in one. All that staying there, holding there with all that stuff arising in one is the cradle of a boddhisatva. Not the ideas of what a boddhisatva may be look like, behave, act, saying, doing...that descriptions are merely to illustrate something but not the real boddhisatva emerging in a very natural way in one by the continuos practice of holding there. Staying moment to moment with: Just this!. Easy to say and not as easy to keep into that discipline. Mayka --- On Wed, 31/8/11, Anthony Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Anthony Wu <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Mahayana To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 31 August, 2011, 23:05 Mayka, The link is not from 'one of my posts'. Nevertheless, it is a good article. I still have two points to make: I doubt whether mahayana considers Buddha 'the first cause'. the idea of bodhisatva is very attractive and well intentioned. Unfortunately in the real world, there are a few who describe it only in words, while they themselves behave to the contrary being a womanizer, profiteer, pedophile etc. The more people like that you see, the more disillusioned you are on the idea of Budhisatva. So those people really deserve hell at the lowest level. Anthony --- On Thu, 1/9/11, Maria Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: From: Maria Lopez <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Mahayana To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 1 September, 2011, 12:12 AM ...And here I paste what, previous Indian website pasted on one of Anthony posts, have to say about Mahayana. http://www.hinduwebsite.com/buddhism/mahayana.asp --- On Wed, 31/8/11, Maria Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: From: Maria Lopez <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Mahayana To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 31 August, 2011, 16:44 Sorry!, Forgot to paste the wiki link in previous mail! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana --- On Wed, 31/8/11, Maria Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: From: Maria Lopez <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Mahayana To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 31 August, 2011, 16:42 Hi JMJM: I've never been very clear about all those different splits and ramification es spread all over the place. So I have done as ED and check into the wiki what has to say about Mahayana. The teachings still go back are: The Heart of the Prajnaparamita Sutra which is to me the equivalent to:MU. Apart from this Sutra there are many teachings in Buddhism in general I'm not aware of them, Also I keep very close to me the Sutra of the breathing and the Sutra on the eight realizations of the great beings. Others such as the lotus Sutra doesn't awake much interest in me, others I left behind such as the one of the Four Noble Truths, Others I read them when I feel like it such as the Heart of the Buddha Teachings, Mayka --- On Wed, 31/8/11, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Mahayana To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 31 August, 2011, 8:09 Dear Forum, Do you consider "Zen/zen/your practice" a Mahayana practice? If so, how does Mahayana actually practice? What is its core teaching? Thank you in advance, jm -- Learn the Basics of Chan Meditation... http://www.chan-meditation.org Chan in everyday life... http://www.chanliving.org To be enlightened in this life... http://www.heartchan.org To save our world... http://www.universal-oneness.org
