Hello!
It's the end of the week and I'm sure we've all been sharing this existence. How has yours been?
Everything is going well with me, thanks for asking. I went for a good hike today at an undisclosed location.
What have you been reading? I've been working through this Haungbo fellow and like the words. Heres some words I like.
Q: Allowing that the enlightened man who achieves the cessation of conceptual thought is Buddha, would not an ignorant man, on ceasing to think conceptually, lose himself in oblivion?
A: There are no enlightened men or ignorant men; and there is no oblivion. Yet, though basically everything is without objective existence, you must not come to think in terms of anything non-existent; and though things are not non-existent, you must not form a concept of anything existing. For "existence" and "non-existence" are both empirical concepts no better than illusions. Therefore it is written: 'Whaterver the senses apphrened resembles an illusion, including everything ranging from mental concepts to living beings.' Our Founder preached to his disciples naught but total abstraction leading to elimination of sense-perception. In this total abstraction does the Way of the Buddhas flourish; while from discrimination between this and that a host of demons blazes forth!
What's up? What's up?
Submitted May 18, 2020 at 03:09AM by Aethrandir https://ift.tt/2ThAWHn
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