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The Buddha Types

Am presently reading an excellent study on the generation of bodhicitta by Dorji Wangchuk in his work, The Resolve to Become a Buddha, A Study of the Bodhicitta Concept in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Themed closely is the actual account of what firstly constitutes being a Buddha. The following for your perusal are some of his preliminary accounts of such an understanding. read more

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Contemplating the mystery – Part 3

Without true Jhana [1], the Imageless reality of Zen remains a lifeless mystery. Because it is lifeless to any worldling devoting its mind to follow images of a myriad shapes and functions, it carries no attraction to them since they refuse consciously or subconsciously be Mind-full (of its nature). read more

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Being of a Single Mind – One-pointedness (Zen) is attained

Let not the appearance of these words fool you, 
yet do not wander off from the context at hand.
Being One in Spirit (will) and of One Mind
is to be of a Single Mind in a here and now
that stretches beyond the temporal prison
of this body consciousness, which clouds
the true vision of your luminous Self.
 
The Buddhas have never lied nor will they ever 
bare false witness [of the Dharma] to you.
Their dharma unfolds before you Minds´s eye
at any given moment. 
Blink and you´ve already missed its splendor; speak and
the spiritual song of the truly living,  becomes absent.
 
What you choose to SEE and SENSE and what really IS though,
are not of the same nature.
Where the one is empty (of dharma), the other shines
as purely itself permanently througout all ten directions.
How can you ever approach it or run from it by conventional means?
 
To say you are here, or there, or in that, or in the other,
implies the need of your present mind to constantly find
settlement and self identity with that, or the other.
This is the prison-consciousness of Samsara. 
Though ashes to some, and golden to others, 
It binds demons, animals, men and gods alike.
 
But your true Mind is primordially free; radiant, luminous – Unborn 
and hence not subject [initself] to any position or law of becoming
giving the false sense of real beingness arising from it.
 
We speak of something incomprehensible pure; a nature and light,
second to no thing, or ideated being. read more

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