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Tag Archives: delusion
Who, what are you?
Can you view yourself as one whom has come to know their own true nature? One, whom has gone beyond the senses, whom in the gracious body of the Mind´s true light transcended any and all views or the … Continue reading
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Tagged delusion, light, Mind, Tozen, True Mind, True Self, uncreated
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The Worm of Attachment
Michael Page “There is not one among the good teachers from ancient times up to the present who hasn’t said that there is no Buddha existing outside of the mind. Though it is clear from this that all phenomena are … Continue reading
Posted in Mud and Water: Bassui Zen
Tagged attachment, delusion, dream, form, phenomena
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The True Body of the Precepts
Questioner: “If the essence of all the Buddha’s teachings were contained in the practice of looking directly into one’s nature and attaining Buddhahood, wouldn’t that make the formal practice of keeping the precepts meaningless?” Bassui: “Keeping or violating the precepts … Continue reading
Posted in Mud and Water: Bassui Zen
Tagged bodhipower, Body, Buddhahood, delusion, Precepts, Real Truth Body, True Wisdom Body
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Parallelism
The grand-finale of Tsung-mi’s Chan Prolegomenon is a testament to his analysis and paraxial methodology of laying side by side the modes of delusion and awakening within Mind’s Dynamic-Nature. Although there’s an apparent contradiction within Mind’s bifurcation between denizens of … Continue reading
Posted in Tsung-mi: An Intimate Study
Tagged Awakening of Faith, delusion, puthujjanas, Zongmi on Chan
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(31) False Face
It can fairly be stated that, the more you get involved in worldly matters, the further you are from the Truth. The more engrossed your mind becomes in physical, mental and psychic matters, all which shuts out the sublime light … Continue reading
Posted in The Dragon Mind of Zen Tarot
Tagged Ch'an, delusion, False Face, Gong'an, koans, light
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(28) Thunder on a Drop of Rain
Every generation is doomed to fight its own ignorance; suffer the loss of the same old illusions and learn the same old lessons on its own. Ignorance can only be concealed, by a lie, and the lie can only be … Continue reading
Ascending the Bhūmis
SEVEN: ASCENDING THE BHŪMIS As the garbha-child lay contemplating the awe and beauty of Arya Tārā’s Noble Dharma-Realm, Blessed Vajradhara appeared and produced a Ten-Prong Vajra—one with his face materializing at its hub… The bodhichild began to reach out … Continue reading
Posted in The Tathāgatagarbhatārā Tantra
Tagged Bhumis, delusion, Recollective Resolve, Tathagatas, Ten Stages, Unborn Light
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Practice Makes Perfect
(Haskel) To practice is hard “Even among those in the assembly now who acknowledge what I say, there are some who merely teach the Unborn with their mouths and don’t continually abide in the Unborn, people who only know about … Continue reading