A teacher's teachings

[ground]

I'm getting the impression perhaps you haven't read the entire canon and tantras of all three vehicles.

Hey this is the "personal experience" section, right?

So I experienced that there is not need to study all these things you mention. If you found what you have been looking for why seek something else?

Still wanting something higher better faster ? That wanting/volition is the very starting point.

Kind regards

[adinatha]

I'm getting the impression perhaps you haven't read the entire canon and tantras of all three vehicles.

Hey this is the "personal experience" section, right?

So I experienced that there is not need to study all these things you mention. If you found what you have been looking for why seek something else?

Still wanting something higher better faster ?

Kind regards

What are you writing for then?

[ground]

I'm getting the impression perhaps you haven't read the entire canon and tantras of all three vehicles.

Hey this is the "personal experience" section, right?

So I experienced that there is not need to study all these things you mention. If you found what you have been looking for why seek something else?

Still wanting something higher better faster ?

Kind regards

What are you writing for then?

A matter of expression.

Why are you reading and thinking about it?

Kind regards

[adinatha]

A matter of expression.

Why are you reading and thinking about it?

Kind regards

Because I love you, buddy.

[ground]

Very kind. That is called "sentience".

Kind regards

[adinatha]

Very kind. That is called "sentience".

Kind regards

The four immeasurables are the essence of the Buddha. An emptiness that is not imbued with spontaneous affinity and love is an obstacle.

[ground]

Very kind. That is called "sentience".

Kind regards

The four immeasurables are the essence of the Buddha. An emptiness that is not imbued with spontaneous affinity and love is an obstacle.

Putting "emptiness" aside ... the Buddha teaches the Brahmaviharas as being conducive.

Kind regards

[adinatha]

Very kind. That is called "sentience".

Kind regards

The four immeasurables are the essence of the Buddha. An emptiness that is not imbued with spontaneous affinity and love is an obstacle.

Putting "emptiness" aside ... the Buddha teaches the Brahmaviharas as being conducive.

Kind regards

Oh you are Theravada? An originalist. It's good. Yes the brahmaviharas are conducive to entering the three doors. And the Buddha also said in the Pali texts they will take you all the way to awakening.

[Enochian]

Oh you are Theravada? An originalist.

Theravada is in no sense "originalist".

The Theravada teaching is steered away from Shakyamuni's teaching by something called Abhidharma.

[ground]

The four immeasurables are the essence of the Buddha. An emptiness that is not imbued with spontaneous affinity and love is an obstacle.

Putting "emptiness" aside ... the Buddha teaches the Brahmaviharas as being conducive.

Kind regards

Oh you are Theravada?

No. Do you think so because I have applied the term " Brahmaviharas"? "four immeasurables" are appropriate too. As you like.


Kind regards

[adinatha]

No. Do you think so because I have applied the term " Brahmaviharas"?


Kind regards

No. Because you used the word "conducive." That sounds very Theravada-like. The Brahmaviharas are in all wheels. In Ati, present as dharmakaya's primordial inseparability and spontaneous effulgence.

[ground]

No. Do you think so because I have applied the term " Brahmaviharas"?


Kind regards

No. Because you used the word "conducive." That sounds very Theravada-like.

Really? Hmh ... teachings are or can be "conducive" ... in Mahayana the term "method" (accompanying "wisdom") stands for that which is "conducive" ... or not?

kind regards

[adinatha]

No. Do you think so because I have applied the term " Brahmaviharas"?


Kind regards

No. Because you used the word "conducive." That sounds very Theravada-like.

Really? Hmh ... teachings are or can be "conducive" ... in Mahayana the term "method" (accompanying "wisdom") stands for that which is "conducive" ... or not?

kind regards

It was just the tone of your sentence that gave me the impression you are a Pali purist. Perhaps you are sorting these things out. I wouldn't get too technical with words, especially when dealing across Pali and Sanskrit texts. I have found it is better to keep terms in their respective places. In time, the broader concepts open up. In the Pali texts the Buddha talks about this and that is conducive, usually in respect to cultivating virtue (as in brahmaviharas) and cutting off non-virtue is conducive to samadhi. In Mahayana, he talks about method and wisdom. Method is the first five paramitas (and compassion/ aspiration bodhichitta and even the brahmaviharas) and wisdom is ultimate bodhichitta (emptiness). The path of the bodhisattva is to realize these two are nondual. There is a similarity as you can see. In practice, the difference is a pretty big deal, because a bodhisattva is not really all that pressed for time when it comes to realizing samadhi.

[ground]

That may be your view which I do not share. Never mind.

Kind regards

[adinatha]

That may be your view which I do not share. Never mind.

Kind regards

What is your view?

[ground]

None. I just take refuge to the Buddha. He taught right view.

Kind regards

[adinatha]

None. I just take refuge to the Buddha. He taught right view.

Kind regards

What is right view?

[ground]

None. I just take refuge to the Buddha. He taught right view.

Kind regards

What is right view?

That one
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .ntbb.html

kind regards

[adinatha]

None. I just take refuge to the Buddha. He taught right view.

Kind regards

What is right view?

That one
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .ntbb.html

kind regards

Great. What does it mean?

[ground]

What is right view?

That one
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .ntbb.html

kind regards

Great. What does it mean?

Investigate through applying the 8fold noble path which is the context of this right view. There is not other means to get the meaning.

kind regards