Anthony, I have filed my application to become a Bodhisattva-in-Training Second Class. Unfortunately the processing is being held up because someone's demon has filed a protest. I'm sure this will all be sorted out soon and I'll be on my way to Bodhisattva-hood forthwith.
...Bill! --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote: > > Mayka, >  > Of course, those evil people I mentioned are far from bodhisatvas. Moreover, > I don't believe a bodhisatva can be attained by practicing 'just this'. Bill > does not aim to become a bodhisatva anyway. Right, Bill? >  > Anthony > > --- On Thu, 1/9/11, Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > > From: Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> > Subject: Re: [Zen] Mahayana > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, 1 September, 2011, 9:21 AM > > >  > > > > > > > > > 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 <wuasg@...> wrote: > > > From: Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> > 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 <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > > From: Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> > 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 <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > > From: Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> > 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 <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > > From: Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> > 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å¦ç²¾æ <chan.jmjm@...> wrote: > > > From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺å¦ç²¾æ <chan.jmjm@...> > 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 > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! 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