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Originally Posted by Skybird
You are asking in what way to stirr a glass of water in order to clear it best. Must I tell you how to breathe? Must you want to tell the sun to rise in the morning and to settle in the evening? Can any written manual on how to breath help you to breath better? Will the sun shine brightier because you write down your theory on how to make it so? Ever tried to explain somebody how to keep the balance when putting one feet before the other, and how to not fall off a bicycle?
You do not need a second head on your shoulders. There already is one. Its the one you were born with. The idea that for 60, 70 years manifestates itself in your temporary form, has been there before you came, and it will be there after you have gone. Like soap bubbles embrace all the same space when they are there, and the space remains the same when the bubble bursts, and another one appears. The space inside and outside is always the same. The ocean is the same water, no matter what patterns waves form on its surface. Why this noise about debating how to be water best?
That sounds strange? What Hui Neng illustrated and what I try to get across time and again is that all this theory and all this making of many words and clever thinking and intellectual differentiation between categories can never tell what the essence, what the real nature of things and life and everything is. Words can only describe and point out what "it" is not. Thats why all claimed "holy scriptures" telling people what some cosmic superpower is and what it wants, are false scriptures. They in fact express the total antithesis to what they claim they are.
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What you are saying here is the very basis of Eastern religion/philosophy. There is no answer or the answer is right/wrong. Whatever thoughts I have are the right/wrong answers and it doesn't matter any way because you can't know the right/wrong answer. All is relative to what makes 'me' happy or satisfied that all is well.
Is this enlightenment or is it madness?
"Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift"
I like a little truth on my enlightenment/madness quest.