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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40378

    A Trip to Infinity



    There is a documentary on Netflix that is a complete waste of time (and the unwastable timeless) for Zen Folks ...

    Quite simply, infinity fades into ... and is ... nothingness, and also infinity (in vastness or in infinite smallness) is fully contained in each and every digit along the way. Infinity is neither large nor small when we drop from mind all contrast of "large vs. small," and it is fully contained as everything and the tinyiest anything.

    Problem solved.

    These mathematicians seem to be thinking in either/or propositions, thus they are lost in infinity.


    Gassho, J (a finite being who is infinite, as are you)

    Pardon me for breaching the 3 sentence rule ... also infinite.

    stlah

    Last edited by Jundo; 09-27-2022, 03:20 AM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
  • Rocio
    Member
    • Jul 2022
    • 39

    #2
    Infinite thanks

    Gassho
    Rocío
    ST

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    • Ryumon
      Member
      • Apr 2007
      • 1800

      #3
      A quote by Robert Aitken:

      "Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. With practice and experience, however, it is recognized as the empty infinity of the universe and of the self."

      When I first read this, quoted in a book called Emerson and Zen Buddhism, I had a profound insight. I understood that infinity is the nothingness of suchness.

      Gassho,

      Ryūmon (Kirk)

      sat
      I know nothing.

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      • Onkai
        Treeleaf Unsui
        • Aug 2015
        • 3026

        #4


        Gassho,
        Onkai
        Sat lah
        美道 Bidou Beautiful Way
        恩海 Onkai Merciful/Kind Ocean

        I have a lot to learn; take anything I say that sounds like teaching with a grain of salt.

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        • Washin
          Treeleaf Unsui
          • Dec 2014
          • 3796

          #5
          Kaidō (皆道) Every Way
          Washin (和信) Harmony Trust
          ----
          I am a novice priest-in-training. Anything that I say must not be considered as teaching
          and should be taken with a 'grain of salt'.

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          • Shokai
            Treeleaf Priest
            • Mar 2009
            • 6394

            #6
            infinity is the nothingness of suchness.
            I like this, Thank you Kirk and Jundo

            gassho, Shokai
            stlah
            合掌,生開
            gassho, Shokai

            仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

            "Open to life in a benevolent way"

            https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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            • Jundo
              Treeleaf Founder and Priest
              • Apr 2006
              • 40378

              #7
              Erroneous quote from this "Infinity" trip ...

              " ... I was just a speck that didn't matter [in the vastness of the universe] ... we are all just specks, living in this brief moment, none of us were here a million years ago, none of use will be here a million years from now ... it just goes on and on ..."

              The Zenny response:

              Every speck fully is all that matters, and we are every brief moment and infinity, we are a million years now or hence, all goes on and on and we go on and on ...
              ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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              • Onkai
                Treeleaf Unsui
                • Aug 2015
                • 3026

                #8
                Originally posted by Jundo
                The Zenny response:

                Every speck fully is all that matters, and we are every brief moment and infinity, we are a million years now or hence, all goes on and on and we go on and on ...
                Thank you, Jundo.

                Gassho,
                Onkai
                Sat lah
                美道 Bidou Beautiful Way
                恩海 Onkai Merciful/Kind Ocean

                I have a lot to learn; take anything I say that sounds like teaching with a grain of salt.

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                • Uran
                  Member
                  • Jul 2022
                  • 98

                  #9
                  Are you familiar with David Bohm? (She asks as if she didn't already know the answer. [emoji2960])

                  There's a wonderful documentary about him -- Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm. He's a pretty cool dude.

                  Gassho,

                  Aimee
                  satlahtoday
                  Aimee B.

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