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- Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:55 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Consciousness in the Heart Sutra
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1805
Re: Consciousness in the Heart Sutra
The skandhas are interpretations of what, to us, appears as "void" or "empty". But emptiness are no thing but the skandhas as functional appearances, so that what Appears is a concept in mind, i.e., form, sensation, perception, and so on. All sensorial phenomena (dharmas) are NOT...
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:07 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Consciousness in the Heart Sutra
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1805
Consciousness in the Heart Sutra
The knowing of an Appearance as an object is constituted by its sensorial awareness of that very appearance. So that the knowledge of the cognized Appearance or Form appears as the being-conscious of that Appearance or Form, its apperception. Form therefore is composed of its sensorial awareness, or...
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:21 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Cupness
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6880
Re: Cupness
According to Dharmakirti's apoha theory of universals, the cupness of a cup is derived from the exclusion of everything that is not a cup. Do you have a quote? I'd like to read it. What we intuit in the meaning of the word "cup" is its Cupness (its qualities), and that Cupness is what we ...
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:53 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Cupness
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6880
Re: Cupness
Plato was discoursing on his theory of ideas and, pointing to the cups on the table before him, said while there are many cups in the world, there is only one `idea' of a cup, and this cupness precedes the existence of all particular cups. "I can see the cup on the table," interupted Dioge...
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:51 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Cupness
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6880
Cupness
The cupness of a cup doesn't derive from anything; neither consciousness, nor Dependent Origination, nor anything else (function, condition, shape, use, etc), since all these are phenomenal as concepts. The "origination", or source as pertaining to its ”cupness”, and its phenomenal awarene...
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:25 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Own-being cannot be cognized
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4852
Re: Own-being cannot be cognized
Hi, Sherab, sorry for not responding earlier. Arising-and-ceasing, as a concept, is an appearance. There is nothing factual about concepts at all. Conceptuality in itself is not a concept, since what conceptuality is is the conceiving-act as such. We cannot conceive the act-of-conceving, because tha...
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:33 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Own-being cannot be cognized
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4852
Re: Own-being cannot be cognized
Hi, Kyosan. Yes, what Namdrol said: phenomena as appearances. There are no other phenomena other than appearances. Nor are there any appearances other than phenomenal or conceptual; and this applies to Buddhas, bodhisattvas, all the doctrines, etc, just like the Heart Sutra says. I disagree that phe...
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:29 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Own-being cannot be cognized
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4852
Re: Own-being cannot be cognized
"Own-being" is therefore not cognizable as an object of thought. well in ignorance it is. :popcorn: "Ignorance", and "own-being" are aspects of the same same 'thing'. Ignorance is the state of mind that things are perceived, and own-being is the perceiving of the thing...
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 1:57 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Own-being cannot be cognized
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4852
Re: Own-being cannot be cognized
Hello, moderators, is it possible to move this thread into the Dharma-free-for-all? I see now that I put it into the Mahayana-forum.
Thank you.
Thank you.
- Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:07 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Own-being cannot be cognized
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4852
Re: Own-being cannot be cognized
" Form itself does not possess the own-being of form, etc. Perfect wisdom does not possess the mark (of being) ‘perfect wisdom.’ A mark does not possess the own-being of a mark. The marked does not possess the own-being of being marked, and own-being does not possess the mark of [being] own-bei...
- Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:46 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Own-being cannot be cognized
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4852
Re: Own-being cannot be cognized
” Form”, that is without form. And why? Because no form exists in form; and this fact of its non-existence in itself, that is the wisdom which has gone beyond. For form is without the own-being of form; and this being without own-being, that is the wisdom which has gone beyond. For the non-own-being...
- Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:46 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Own-being cannot be cognized
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4852
Own-being cannot be cognized
Voidness is not a quality of objectivity, phenomena being their absence of themselves phenomenally as conceptual objects. Phenomena cannot be perceived at all, they are appearances integral in their perceiving, which is why they are called "void", or "dependently originated". &qu...
- Mon May 23, 2011 8:58 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Chan Texts: Translations & Studies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 36168
Re: Chan Texts: Translations & Studies
Astus,
Anything in particular you would recommend from that list?
Thank you.
Anything in particular you would recommend from that list?
Thank you.
- Mon May 23, 2011 8:58 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Mahayana/Vajrayana Links and Resources
- Replies: 427
- Views: 183705
Re: Chan Texts: Translations & Studies
Astus,
Anything in particular you would recommend from that list?
Thank you.
Anything in particular you would recommend from that list?
Thank you.
- Mon May 23, 2011 8:53 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Chan Texts: Translations & Studies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 36168
Re: Chan Texts: Translations & Studies
Great topic! Has anyone read The Record of Linji ? http://www.amazon.com/Record-Nanzan-Library-Religion-Culture/dp/0824828216" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand ...
- Mon May 23, 2011 8:53 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Mahayana/Vajrayana Links and Resources
- Replies: 427
- Views: 183705
Re: Chan Texts: Translations & Studies
Great topic! Has anyone read The Record of Linji ? http://www.amazon.com/Record-Nanzan-Library-Religion-Culture/dp/0824828216" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand ...
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:20 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The height of the Treasure tower (Lotus Sutra)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3466
Re: The height of the Treasure tower (Lotus Sutra)
I don't think I understand the distinction you allude to between the metaphysical on one side and the positivistic on the other; positivism is definitely a metaphysics (in the sense of an ontology), while materialism as I understand it is intended as a critical antidote to metaphysical idealism, wh...
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:32 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The height of the Treasure tower (Lotus Sutra)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3466
Re: The height of the Treasure tower (Lotus Sutra)
My bad. The length seems to vary between different sources.Aemilius wrote:Mt Meru is really 84 000 Yojanas high! See the correct calculations here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Meru
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:57 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The height of the Treasure tower (Lotus Sutra)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3466
Re: The height of the Treasure tower (Lotus Sutra)
Hello Jikan, Reeves' contemporary version, Kato's Threefold Lotus, and Watson's Lotus seems to have received most praise. Why do you consider Murano's version to be the best one? I can't find any reviews or comments on it, so it's hard to make an interpretation of its "quality", so to spea...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:58 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The height of the Treasure tower (Lotus Sutra)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3466
Re: The height of the Treasure tower (Lotus Sutra)
Thanks, Jikan. Indeed alot of Mahayana sutras seems to indulge in these extraordinary elements for dramatic effect. My preferences have usually been for those sutras, texts, etc, that has kept the dramatic imagery to a minimum. Usually you have to dig for years to get to the nuts and bolts, or the i...