Guest guest Posted October 20, 2000 Report Share Posted October 20, 2000 In a message dated 10/20/2000 7:48:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mumblecat writes: << However, at first I had problems seeing how the Avatamsaka sutra was connected with the principle of Anekantvada.... still working on it. Love, Amanda. >> Hi Amanda, I thought about it very briefly, I'm inundated with work and solving smaller issues of people and getting a company up and running. So, as the connections were not instantly obvious, I almost didn't post, but the intuition to post it for you was very strong, so, I just went with it. The parable is beautiful to work with over time more and more awareness comes from it :-) All of life is an integrated whole :-) Love and Light, Annette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2000 Report Share Posted October 20, 2000 Hi Annette, Thank you for reposting this story, I liked it a lot. The net of Indra, very nice. However, at first I had problems seeing how the Avatamsaka sutra was connected with the principle of Anekantvada.... still working on it. Love, Amanda. On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:53:04 Rainbolily wrote: >One, from the actual Avatamsaka Sutra - 'The Ring-Shaped' or 'Garland' >Discourse - [fairly adequately translated as the 'Flower-Ornament Sutra' >The second from Fa Tsang, one of the great teaches of the Avartamsaka >(or Hua-yen) School as it was originally practised in China. >One day the Empress came to him and said: "Venerable Master, I have >understood your teaching that the five senses and the foundational >consciousness perceive by direct experience whereas the sixth >consciousness - mind - is capable both of direct experience and indirect >inference. This being the case, much that is known by the mind is >completely errant and astray. You have also explained to me vast mind of >the Womb of Phenomena, and it is true that at times I can almost picture >it to myself, but I realise that this too is simply an inference and is >not the real experience of the absolute mind of continuous arising and >stillness about which you are speaking. Could you not show this mind to >me ?" > >Fa Tsang thought for an instant. "If Your Majesty would grant me leave >to answer this question only this evening," he said. > >Permission was granted. > >After sunset Fa Tsang presented himself before her and requested her to >follow him. At the end of a corridor was a room with a heavy door. This >he threw open to reveal a room lit by a single lamp placed before a >small golden statue of the buddha. The entire room blazed with light for >every square centimetre of it, walls, floor and ceiling, had been >covered with mirrors, big, small and middle sized, and in every mirror >were blazing a lamp and a golden Buddha and the reflections of other >mirrors and other lamps and other golden Buddhas. > >Then... bowing gently... he again closed the door. Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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