LastLegend wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:09 am
kusulu wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:47 am
LastLegend wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:18 am
We have to! Because it’s what functions constantly. You have to aspire! There is no other choice!!
When you put it like that? It's called Awakening, just so, because we are all 'as though we are asleep' while awake. All Dharmas are Empty, as is said, but it's not like emptiness, as much as it's like fullness. Everything is Sentient, everything is Buddha-Nature, Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form, but never is there a fixed Eternal, Everlasting Self, it's much MORE than just that. It's Primordial, Primeval, the Source which knows neither beginning nor end. The Dharma verifies itself, because it opens the eye by which it sees.
When Dogen says, everything Buddha-Nature, just sit? He is setting you up. How can you "just sit" when there is a Dragon Singing in a Dead Tree?
I am just demanding something that fits my view! So then I’d like to ask what is emptiness in a direct sense?
No where to go, nothing to do, nothing to prove, not selfish, not self-centered, not trying to get a certain outcome. When you try to bend the universe to your limited will, with your limited mind, with your limited strength, you are only messing things up. Don't harbor evil thoughts, things might come true in ways you'll regret.
"Don’t recall. Let go of the past.
Don’t imagine. Let go of the future.
Don’t think. Let go of how you think this needs to go down.
Don’t examine. Don't over-analyze.
Don’t control. Let it happen.
Rest. Let it go. "