Bill!,
I won't say.
My point about hearing about them at the end of sesshin in this way is that it
is just so welcome, and so unexpected (except after the first 45 or 50 sesshin
attended), that it arouses laughter, in what has for seven solid days been
(usually) a pretty solemn and silent atmosphere. Wonderful.
If they're not sentient, they *are*, when we snicker and smile about them, in
deepest and lightest lively appreciation. ;-)
Share with us how you appreciate them to be sentient. Surely they "trope"
toward the sun, and clearly have a Life, and die. And then their husks "live
on". I've sometimes been as impressed with the life of a pile of dry sticks as
I have been with a hale and green-leaf standing Maple.
--Joe
> "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> Plants, such as bushes and grasses, are sentient beings. Do you think
> otherwise?
>
> ...Bill!
>
> "Joe" <desert_woodworker@> wrote:
> >
> > Edgar, Bill!, All,
> >
> > I won't say yes, I won't say no.
> >
> > But just to note that...
> >
> > ...at the close of sesshin in the Diamond Sangha, there is a closing
> > ceremony, and the Ino intones a Dedication (I've added my emphasis as
> > all-caps, and preceding and leading stars):
> >
> > In the purity and clarity of the Dharmakaya,
> > in the fullness and perfection of the Sambogakaya,
> > in the infinite variety of the Nirmanakaya,
> > we dedicate our sesshin and our reciting
> > of Maka Hannya Haramita Shin Gyo- to:
> >
> > The Ancient Seven Buddhas, Dai Osho-,
> > Shakyamuni Buddha, Dai Osho-,
> > All Founding Teachers, past, present, future, Dai Osho-;
> >
> > *AND FOR THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF BUSHES AND GRASSES*
> > and the many beings of the world;
> >
> > All Buddhas throught space and time;
> > all Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas;
> > the great Prajna Paramita.
> >
> > --Joe
> >
> > PS At that happy-sad moment, many people hearing the emphasized line will
> > bubble out in laughter, and smile... even the Ino. It's great.
> >
> > > Edgar Owen <edgarowen@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Bill,
> > >
> > > Buddha Nature... is THE ONLY substance of reality because it is being or
> > > existence itself.
> >
>
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