ok very nice ..but way too intellectual for me ...tkp67 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 12:56 amSure but these things called poisons and medicines are perspectives of the same phenomenon.Minobu wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 12:43 amso would you at least consider ....for a teensy wintzy moment...that He means the poison may come in many forms or afflictions...but the medicine is working on the Karma.
give a starving man a fish and feed him for a day .Teach him to fish and feed him for life.
In this way i use the metaphor...
Cure a man of an affliction...and make him happy today...
show him how to end the continual encounters with afflictions
and teach him the way to Buddhahood...total freedom.
The phenomenon doesn't matter the perspective does.
The latent ability to turn poison to medicine is inherent.
If there is a greater gift than that I would interested to know of it.
At some point one needs to consider who was the buddha speaking to when he said what he said and what was the purpose. The perceived context is reflective of the realm that mind is manifesting. The ten realms exist in all things because that latent potential exists in all minds.https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/1Life at each moment encompasses the body and mind and the self and environment of all sentient beings in the Ten Worlds as well as all insentient beings in the three thousand realms, including plants, sky, earth, and even the minutest particles of dust. Life at each moment permeates the entire realm of phenomena and is revealed in all phenomena.
On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime
so can we start with
just this one question ...
what phenomenon ?