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"Buddhas speak of empty phenomena in order to destroy views, but if you are in turn attached to emptiness [as a view], you are even more mistaken. At the point of the arising of all existence, only emptiness arises."from The Bodhidharma Anthology
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posted by Dan @ 7:47 AM
13 Comments:
Dan,
Yes, that makes a lot of sense. To reach and strain and become attached to finding emptiness is to reach and strain and become attached to anything else we mistakenly place our focus on. It seems to me it is more like "remembering", remembering to be. It just arises.
Great quote. Thank you for sharing.
Nice Dan!
Thanks, Serenity and Here and Now, the two things we all are, even if we don't know it...
Or are Serenity and Here and Now three things?
Or one?
Or not a thing at all...?
Wonderful reminder, Uncle Dan. Really it is. Thanks. And yes, we are synched on concepts that we post about w/out knowing what the other will post.
Getting attached to a view is not the best idea... constricts one's vision.
hmmm... nothing to add to this... looks like it's all been said..! hmmm... or has nothing been said... hmmmm... :)
paxuqw!
Can I add an ummm...?
Thanks for the visit to my blog. Attachment to nothing, attachment to the void? Surely that encompasses all. Can one really be attached to all? Even the attachment is included. Not possible I would say - it would be like an eye looking at itself. Therefore, would not such attachment be an illusion anyway? Just like it's an illusion that we are not enlightened already? :-) Derek
That's right, Derek.
Any words about it are not it, and of course the words of the Buddha, even, are ultimately only provisional and aimed at removing doubt in the particular instance recorded and for the particular 'individual' or 'group' involved.
Gotta sort the relative talk from the ultimate talk --and it's all relative talk anyway...
I do believe there is always room for "ummm..."
ummmmmm.... :)
I'll add an ummmm, just cuz you can't have too many :)
And wow, maybe we all ought to start calling you Uncle Dan lol!
ummmm... okay!
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