Friday, December 01, 2006

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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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13 Comments:

Blogger serenity said...

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.

9:23 AM  
Blogger Jayanta Chattopadhyay said...

Nice Dan!

9:27 AM  
Blogger Dan said...

Thanks, Serenity and Here and Now, the two things we all are, even if we don't know it...

10:16 PM  
Blogger Dan said...

Or are Serenity and Here and Now three things?
Or one?
Or not a thing at all...?

10:24 PM  
Blogger Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

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.

4:13 AM  
Blogger anonymous julie said...

Getting attached to a view is not the best idea... constricts one's vision.

7:19 AM  
Blogger Kathleen said...

hmmm... nothing to add to this... looks like it's all been said..! hmmm... or has nothing been said... hmmmm... :)


paxuqw!

7:43 AM  
Blogger Dan said...

Can I add an ummm...?

9:02 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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

10:11 AM  
Blogger Dan said...

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...

10:30 AM  
Blogger Kathleen said...

I do believe there is always room for "ummm..."

ummmmmm.... :)

3:06 PM  
Blogger serenity said...

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!

2:00 AM  
Blogger Dan said...

ummmm... okay!

8:58 AM  

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