Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 Dear Friends hello. I wonder if Buddhism embraces permanence as the Source of impermanent arisings? I'd appreciate some comments even from advaitins re what Is permanent? Peace, Col Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 Dear Col, The answer to your question is a simple one. But His Holiness of Kanchipuram, Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamiji had put it in very simple and effective words: "...Everything disintegrates on earth and this earth also will vanish one day. The sun will disappear and the whole universe will go. Then there must be some powerful substratum responsible for creation, protection and destruction. We call it God. We have the faculty of thinking and capacity of doing, in smaller or greater measure. This also merges after our death with the omnipotent Being, from whom we derive this energy. The stable principle which is the cause of creation and destruction of all energy is God, called by any name..." The above is an excerpt from http://www.kamakoti.org/other/miscl/divine50b.html , Best regards Venkatesh http://www.kamakoti.org/ (site being redesigned and we are also looking for persons who could see the test design and criticise it) ------------------- > Dear Friends hello. I wonder if Buddhism embraces permanence as the > Source of impermanent arisings? > > I'd appreciate some comments even from advaitins re what Is permanent? > > Peace, > > Col Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 the seer... the screen... The Self is the Stage! Permanent! (also the actors etc... but the actors change, the show must go on, so they are not permanent) for just about everything, we can say, "This too shall pass" except for the eternal one, God, the eternal being, the ground of being, the eternity, the stage, the movie screen, the consciouness it all rests in. Paul advaitin, colette@b... wrote: > Dear Friends hello. I wonder if Buddhism embraces permanence as the > Source of impermanent arisings? > > I'd appreciate some comments even from advaitins re what Is permanent? > > Peace, > > Col Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 Namaste, The vedantins have never swerved from the the 'mahaa-vaakya'-s on permanence: THAT [tajjalaan] they call brahman, aatmaa, praj~nanam, tat; viz. praj~naanamM brahma . [Consciousness is Brahman] ayam aatmaa brahma . [This Consciousness pervading all manifestations is Brahman.] tat tvam asi . [THAT thou art!] ahaM brahmaasmi . [i am Brahman] sarva.n khalu idaM brahma (tajjalaan iti shaanta upaasiita) .[ALL this is indded Brahman.] (in which all this arises, sustains, and is absorbed, meditate on it in peace). Whatever can be divided is impermanent; THAT which cannot be divided is permanent , and that is Consciousness. Regards, s,. advaitin, colette@b... wrote: > Dear Friends hello. I wonder if Buddhism embraces permanence as the > Source of impermanent arisings? > > I'd appreciate some comments even from advaitins re what Is permanent? > > Peace, > > Col Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 advaitin, "Paul J. Cote" <pjcote@l...> wrote: > the seer... the screen... > > The Self is the Stage! Permanent! (also the actors etc... but the > actors change, the show must go on, so they are not permanent) > > for just about everything, we can say, "This too shall pass" except > for the eternal one, God, the eternal being, the ground of being, > the eternity, the stage, the movie screen, the consciouness it all > rests in. > Yes I agree. Being (Existence ~ source ~ Life) is permanent. The dream is impermanent. :-) Col > > Paul > > > advaitin, colette@b... wrote: > > Dear Friends hello. I wonder if Buddhism embraces permanence as the > > Source of impermanent arisings? > > > > I'd appreciate some comments even from advaitins re what Is > permanent? > > > > Peace, > > > > Col Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 advaitin, sunderh wrote: > Namaste, > > The vedantins have never swerved from the the 'mahaa-vaakya'-s > on permanence: THAT [tajjalaan] they call brahman, aatmaa, > praj~nanam, tat; viz. > > praj~naanamM brahma . [Consciousness is Brahman] > > ayam aatmaa brahma . [This Consciousness pervading all manifestations > is Brahman.] > > tat tvam asi . [THAT thou art!] > > ahaM brahmaasmi . [i am Brahman] > > sarva.n khalu idaM brahma (tajjalaan iti shaanta upaasiita) .[ALL > this is indded Brahman.] (in which all this arises, sustains, and is > absorbed, meditate on it in peace). > > Whatever can be divided is impermanent; THAT which cannot be divided > is permanent , and that is Consciousness. How beautiful. Your post tasted sacred. Thankyou for the tasty reminder of how lovely the lila's source Is. I hear even Buddhists mention Brahman? I wonder what is their understanding of It? Love, Col > > > Regards, > > s,. > > > > advaitin, colette@b... wrote: > > Dear Friends hello. I wonder if Buddhism embraces permanence as the > > Source of impermanent arisings? > > > > I'd appreciate some comments even from advaitins re what Is > permanent? > > > > Peace, > > > > Col Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 Thankyou for sharing Venkatesh. May peace bless, Luv, Col advaitin, Venkatesh MaduraiSubramanian <venky@o...> wrote: > Dear Col, > > The answer to your question is a simple one. But His Holiness of > Kanchipuram, Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamiji had > put it in very simple and effective words: > > "...Everything disintegrates on earth and this earth also will vanish > one day. The sun will disappear and the whole universe will go. Then > there must be some powerful substratum responsible for creation, > protection and destruction. We call it God. We have the faculty of > thinking and capacity of doing, in smaller or greater measure. This > also merges after our death with the omnipotent Being, from whom we > derive this energy. The stable principle which is the cause of > creation and destruction of all energy is God, called by any name..." > > The above is an excerpt from > http://www.kamakoti.org/other/miscl/divine50b.html , > > Best regards > > Venkatesh > http://www.kamakoti.org/ > (site being redesigned and we are also looking for persons who could > see the test design and criticise it) > > > > ------------------- > > Dear Friends hello. I wonder if Buddhism embraces permanence as the > > Source of impermanent arisings? > > > > I'd appreciate some comments even from advaitins re what Is > permanent? > > > > Peace, > > > > Col Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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