Guest guest Posted December 29, 2000 Report Share Posted December 29, 2000 Beyond Understanding Beyond Knowledge The Dream within a Dream is expressed. Attachment: (image/jpeg) C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\nsmailJR.jpeg [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2000 Report Share Posted December 29, 2000 Once I, Chuang Chou, dreamed I was a butterfly and was happy as a butterfly. I was conscious that I was quite pleased with myself, but I did not know that I was Chuang Chou. Suddenly I awoke, and there was I, visibly Chuang Chou. I do not know whether it was Chuang Chou dreaming that he was a butterfly or the butterfly dreaming that he was Chuang Chou. Between Chuang Chou and the butterfly there must be some distinction. This is called the transformation of things. - Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2 Mace Mealer <mmealer (AT) arc (DOT) net>To: ; Bodhisangha <Bodhisangha >; Dzogchen <Dzogchen >; Illuminata <Illuminata >Friday, December 29, 2000 3:34 PM Beyond Beyond Understanding Beyond Knowledge The Dream within a Dream is expressed. Attachment: (image/jpeg) [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) butterfly2.jpg [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2000 Report Share Posted December 29, 2000 Nice butterfly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2000 Report Share Posted December 30, 2000 > > > Nice butterfly > > Maybe the good old excentric taoist Chuang Tzu would have pondered: Is it me thinking the butterfly is nice - or is someone admiring me as the butterfly? "What's here is everywhere; what isn't here is nowhere" (Tantra) "Everything exists in our mind; there isn't anything out there" (Yogachara Buddhism) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2000 Report Share Posted December 31, 2000 Hi Magne, Your quote: > "Everything exists in our mind; > there isn't anything out there" > (Yogachara Buddhism) You remember that I find such a statement symptomatic of some kind of mental pathology. Now I definitely do not want to put Sri Ramana Maharshi, the Buddha, or Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva in the same category as other Advaitins, Buddhist or Hindi yogic approaches that to the above statement. But after a lot of deep thinking and based on some intense experiences I think my viewpoint warrants consideration. http://aurasphere.dhs.org/Kundalini%20Posts/PathologyOfIllusion I could go into this some more, but so far I think I have written enough about it. Anyway it is a start. I will add more posts (still editing and sorting) on that subject to the above web page. Love, Wim http://www.aurasphere.dhs.org "Indirect knowledge gathered from books or teachers can never set a human free until its truth is investigated, applied, experimented with and experienced. Only direct, factual and actual realization does that. Realize your whole self, reintegrate your mind and body." - Tripura Rahasya, 18: 89-90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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