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The great delusion and awakening of the soul
The great sadness of deity-based religions, be it monotheistic or polytheistic ones, the deity in name and worship, be it One or Many, all suffer from the souls’ delusion of servitude, either desired or forced upon itself by merit of self-ignorance, fear, love or guilt. It is servitude to something higher than its actual true self – the latter being PURE SPIRIT, BUDDHA NATURE, but in the soul by reason of ignorance being perceived as lower. It fails to realize that in any realm, or reality, there is nothing higher than its true self.
Recognize the difference between Spirit and Soul.
The soul is Spirit´s “cognitive” power and knower of all things.
Where it needs to perceive and know as a demon, it perceives and knows as a demon. Where it needs to perceive and know as a man, it perceives and knows as a man. Where it perceives and knows as a god, it perceives and knows as a god.
The deceptive illusion of merely believing
In the years, decades, or perhaps even future existences ahead, you will one day come to realize that one who seeks to believe in something will eventually find something to believe in. That is the power of illusion continuously vibrating in the false body consciousness field, generated by Mara (the Buddhist allusion of the five skandhas combined as One Deceiving Power). The latter is consequently a fulfilled illusion based on the great desire of its pursuing believer.
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Unborn Mind Zen on Vulture´s peak.
Finishing the ritual sharing of the green tea, the Master put down his cup, picked up his staff and pointed at my face. The gesture was so fast and perfectly executed, I failed to see where the staff started and ended up a mere inch in front of my nose as if it had materialized from a seemingly nowhere into a sudden somewhere.
The foreverness of Zen
Nothing in this life is Zen. Not your assumed birth, nor an inevitable cessation of your present biological matrix.
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Tagged Death, Mind-only, nirvana, rebirth, True Nature, Zen
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The well of no origin
Please share what you have, so I may quench this thirst.
The well is over there. Why don´t you taste the water yourself?
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Tagged Buddhadharma, Ch’an Buddhism, Dharma, Enlightenment, koan stories, Mind, Zen mysteries
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This is the destiny of most sentient minds…
Desire-Thought-Function. The creation of one enables the latter, ad-infinitum. From the first to the last and from the last back to the first.
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Tagged Buddhadharma, Dharma, form, Karma, liberation, suffering, Tozen, Unborn, Zen
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The untrapped Mind
The untrapped Mind is the Mind of Nirvana.
Where defiled minds dwell in countless positions of their own making, the untrapped Mind remains free in the shining reality of its own uncreatedness.
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Open your mouth
Open your mouth, utter a single syllable, type a single word and you merely are spreading the illusion of your own perception of what you believe, at any given moment, to be the equal or part of an absolute reality.
The first thing ever expressed by an enlightened sage
The first thing ever expressed by an enlightened sage to any given student of the way is the wordless proof that “there is only Mind”. This is the very same dharma professed by all bodhisattvas maha bodhisattvas and Buddhas.Whatever more sentient beings might see, either by the appearance of words, various meanings via composed doctrines and other forms of literal conveyance, it all falls back on that first wordless truth of the Absolute, that is immaculate, permanent, unborn,