When you climb on the cliff and look out at the water you might feel that the water is moving. But when you turn your eyes toward the rock face, you may then feel that you are moving. In the same way, if you observe the myriad things of the world with confused ideas of body and mind you might assume that your mind and nature are enduring and stand separate from things. But when you intimately practice and turn within, it will become clear that nothing at all has a fixed, individual self.
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(Notes of a scale, I'm not actually this lazy
I don't have a lot of activities that are so clearly sequential as to be able to write about them in this way.) EDIT: now that I've read the other posts, I know I could have done better. I didn't even think of some of these! I guess the sequence of events isn't something I'm often aware of.
A turns to B and it does not turn to A again. But do not think that the B is the future and A is past. Rather, A is wholly A with nothing remaining, and that Bis just Bwith nothing more. You should understand that A abides in the phenomenal expression and wholeness of A, which fully includes its own past and future yet is independent of all past and future. B abides in the phenomenal expression and wholeness of B, which fully includes its own past and future too.
Just as A does not turn to A again after it is B do not think of returning to birth after death.
Thus, it is an established rule in Buddhist teachings to deny that A turns into B. Therefore, A is understood as no-note A for in the time of A there is no other note with which to compare it. It is an unshakable teaching in Buddha’s preaching that B does not turn into A or C. Therefore, B is understood as no-note B when there is no other moment with which to compare it.
A is a situation complete in this moment. B is a situation complete in this moment. They are the same as winter and spring. We do not say that winter becomes spring, nor do we say that spring becomes summer.
Gassho,
SatLah
Kelly
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(Notes of a scale, I'm not actually this lazy
I don't have a lot of activities that are so clearly sequential as to be able to write about them in this way.) EDIT: now that I've read the other posts, I know I could have done better. I didn't even think of some of these! I guess the sequence of events isn't something I'm often aware of.A turns to B and it does not turn to A again. But do not think that the B is the future and A is past. Rather, A is wholly A with nothing remaining, and that Bis just Bwith nothing more. You should understand that A abides in the phenomenal expression and wholeness of A, which fully includes its own past and future yet is independent of all past and future. B abides in the phenomenal expression and wholeness of B, which fully includes its own past and future too.
Just as A does not turn to A again after it is B do not think of returning to birth after death.
Thus, it is an established rule in Buddhist teachings to deny that A turns into B. Therefore, A is understood as no-note A for in the time of A there is no other note with which to compare it. It is an unshakable teaching in Buddha’s preaching that B does not turn into A or C. Therefore, B is understood as no-note B when there is no other moment with which to compare it.
A is a situation complete in this moment. B is a situation complete in this moment. They are the same as winter and spring. We do not say that winter becomes spring, nor do we say that spring becomes summer.
Gassho,
SatLah
Kelly
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