Guest guest Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Dipamkara, on 11/19/04 3:00 PM, Realization at Realization wrote: > I have one request of you at this time: can you let me know if you are able > to receive attachments through this site... i.e., if I sent you an attachment, > like I did the other day, did you/could you/would you receive it/them? It is the goal of this newsgroup to free you from all attachments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Namaste, gd, lololololol!! re: attachments... You make an interesting point. However, let us speak transcendentally, then. Having "goals" is attachment.... There is absolutely nothing to achieve. "Goals" are of the realm of conditioned arrising, of name and form... there is no goal for the bodhisattva whatsoever.... What is there to be attained? And who would attain it? That is the beauty of it all. Please accept the following quote with my blessings for the coming season and new year: Section XVII. No One Attains Transcendental Wisdom At that time Subhuti addressed Buddha, saying: World-honored One, if good men and good women seek the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment, by what criteria should they abide and how should they control their thoughts? Buddha replied to Subhuti: Good men and good women seeking the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment must create this resolved attitude of mind: I must liberate all living beings, yet when all have been liberated, verily not any one is liberated. Wherefore? If a Bodhisattva cherishes the idea of an ego-entity, a personality, a being, or a separated individuality, he is consequently not a Bodhisattva, Subhuti. This is because in reality there is no formula which gives rise to the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment? Subhuti, what do you think? When the Tathagata was with Dipamkara Buddha was there any formula for the attainment of the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment? No, World-honored One, as I understand Buddha`s meaning, there was no formula by which the Tathagata attained the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment. Buddha said: You are right, Subhuti! Verily there was no formula by which the Tathagata attained the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment. Subhuti, had there been any such formula, Dipamkara Buddha would not have predicted concerning me: "In the ages of the future you will come to be a Buddha called Shakyamuni"; but Dipamkara Buddha made that prediction concerning me because there is actually no formula for the attainment of the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment. The reason herein is that Tathagata is a signification implying all formulas. In case anyone says that the Tathagata attained the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment, I tell you truly, Subhuti, that there is no Formula by which the Buddha attained it. Subhuti, the basis of Tathagata`s attainment of the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment is wholly beyond; it is neither real nor unreal. Hence I say that the whole realm of formulations is not really such, therefore it is called "Realm of formulations." Subhuti, a comparison may be made with the idea of a gigantic human frame. Then Subhuti said: The World-honored One has declared that such is not a great body; "a great body" is just the name given to it. Subhuti, it is the same concerning Bodhisattvas. If a Bodhisattva announces: I will liberate all living creatures, he is not rightly called a Bodhisattva. Wherefore? Because, Subhuti, there is really no such condition as that called Bodhisattvaship, because Buddha teaches that all things are devoid of selfhood, devoid of personality, devoid of entity, and devoid of separate individuality. Subhuti, if a Bodhisattva announces: I will set forth majestic Buddha-lands one does not call him a Bodhisattva, because the Tathagata has declared that the setting forth of majestic Buddha-lands is not really such: "a majestic setting forth" is just the name given to it. Subhuti, Bodhisattvas who are wholly devoid of any conception of separate selfhood are truthfully called Bodhisattvas. http://web.mit.edu/stclair/www/diamond.html "Attachment" is just a name you give it. May we all be released from living in the realm of the dillusion of appeareances.... What more could be said? Bless you. "Namo Amita Buddha" Dipamkara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 > > It is the goal of this newsgroup to free you from all attachments. Hehe. very good. - " Glenn Davis " <glenn <Realization > Friday, November 19, 2004 4:47 PM Re: attachments > > Dipamkara, > > on 11/19/04 3:00 PM, Realization at > Realization wrote: > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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