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Mannu
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posted August 12, 2008 12:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message

Hidden for centuries in a sealed-up cave in north-west China, this copy of the ‘Diamond Sutra’ is the world’s earliest complete survival of a dated printed book. It was made in AD 868. Seven strips of yellow-stained paper were printed from carved wooden blocks and pasted together to form a scroll over 5m long. Though written in Chinese, the text is one of the most important sacred works of the Buddhist faith, which was founded in India.

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Subhuti then asked Buddha: "In the future, in the last five centuries when the way is obscured, will any beings understand the truth of these teachings?"

Buddha answered: "Do not say this, Subhuti! Even then, in the remote future, there will be beings who will understand the truth when these words are taught. There will even then be Bodhisattvas meritorious in conduct, practised in virtue and full of wisdom who will understand the truth when they hear these teachings. Such Bodhisattvas, Subhuti, will not have honoured one Buddha alone, nor will they have rooted their merit under just one Buddha. Rather, these Bodhisattvas, who will find serene faith awakened upon hearing the words of this teaching, will have honoured and rooted themselves in merit under countless Buddhas. They are known to the Tathagata through his Buddha-thought; they are seen by the Tathagata with his Buddha-eye. Hence they are fully known to the Tathagata, and they will all acquire and produce inestimable merit.

"And why? Because, Subhuti, these Bodhisattvas will have no perception of an egotistic self, neither of a separate entity nor of a soul, no perception of a personality. Nor will they even have a perception of dharma or adharma, for in them there will be neither perception nor non-perception.



http://www.io.com/~snewton/zen/diamond.html
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/landmarks/diamondsutra.html

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Mannu
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posted August 12, 2008 01:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
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from wiki
Tath¨¡gata (pronounced: t¨¡ht-¨¡hgatah) in Pali and Sanskrit (Chin., Jap.: ÈçÀ´) confusingly perhaps, means both "one who has thus gone" (Tath¨¡-gata) and "one who has thus come" (Tath¨¡-¨¡gata) - as well as, some have argued, "one who has gone to That" (Tat-¨¡gata). Still others assert that the name means "one who has found the Truth". It is the name the historical Buddha Gautama uses when referring to himself.[1] The term is deliberately ambiguous, reflecting the unsignifiable nature of that state of transcendence or moksha which by definition goes beyond all categories of being or non-being. Tath¨¡gata paradoxically bespeaks this ineffability. Using this word as his preferred personal appellation, the Buddha of the scriptures is always reported as saying, "The Tathagata such and such...," instead of ever using the pronouns me, I or myself. This serves to emphasize by implication that the words uttered come from a place beyond the otherwise endless cycle of rebirth, beyond all death and dying, beyond all suffering. The Tathagata, in other words, is beyond all coming and going.




Note tathata in Buddhas language means "Suchness".

He was always quiet about God and Creation. I can understand him very well now.

After 2500 hundred years since his time, scientists are now finding such "suchnesses" ? Amazing guy this Siddhartha. And remember telescope may not have even been invented during Buddha's time.

Ask Einstein to explain theory of relativity. His explanation has such 'suchness'. He just can't explain.

Ask Feynman.

I am sure many scientists have wondered why water boils at 212 deg F? One degree less and it does not boil.


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posted August 13, 2008 11:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message
Interesting.

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Mannu
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posted August 14, 2008 01:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
Sammasati

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You are one with the stars and the trees and the sky and the ocean. You are no longer separate.
The last word of Buddha was, sammasati.
Remember that you are a buddha -- sammasati.

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posted August 15, 2008 03:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for charmainec     Edit/Delete Message
I like that Mannu.

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What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mannu
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posted August 17, 2008 11:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
Sammasati

What you seek you already are

Emerson says ....A Man is a God in ruins
Is he correct? Perhaps yes. Its possible he may self destruct himself and humanity on earth.

"What must I give up?". A seeker advices on renunciation. Osho responds "Give up that which you don't have. Don't give up that which you already have...."

What you don't have is ego. It is illusionary. There are some hindu mystics who have said the world is maya and the I is true... It is buddha who declares after his enlightenment, the I is illusionary the world is real....

This is the basis of Jain and Buddhism.
Very different from Hindu and Christians and Islams who have adviced the path of surrendering. Siddhartha the Buddha gave a wonderful insight to humanity. Whom should I surrender to when the I does not exists -... as I understand Osho explaining some of the buddhist sutras. He also explains we must not argue about who is right, both views can take you to the truth.

I personally find Buddhas words attractive. Takes you back home instantly . Because you recognize the wisdom in it. And the wisdom is from the beyond. The transcendental.

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Mannu
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posted August 17, 2008 12:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
"The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made
up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that,
and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the
landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he
whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best
part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"

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posted August 17, 2008 04:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
My view on being an enlightened one.
Yes one must find that egoless place within.
However to live in the world one must be also a part of it.
Once one has found enlightenment one must return to the world of ID/EGO/Identity.
A wise man in a cave going OM OM OM serves no one but God within.
The living in and being a part of the physical world requires self
identity. It requires names and identities.
Without those we could not communicate with each other and no work would be done.
We must have farmers, and other workers. To do their jobs they must identify with said jobs, be it farmer, or a role such as being a parent or teacher, whatever.
Once one has found that egoless God level then when they return to ego/id, they can relate better to others and to others and the world as a whole. They have ego/id without the arrogance or thinking that is all they are. One can then be happy in what they do in life.
One can then see that begger and king are not so different but products of circumstance.
One then truly understands the meaning of
Namaste`
I hope that made sense.

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Mannu
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posted August 17, 2008 05:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
>>Once one has found enlightenment one must return to the world of ID/EGO/Identity.

I agree. The mind is infinite. It cannot be totally controlled.

Some ego is required to function. But we must never forget the eternal enlightenment within us, in our everyday activities. Even if we forget, we must come back again to the remembrance of our enlightenment. Perhaps even regress the moment that was spent in unawareness.

The christian concept of humility and all that crap comes from ignorance.
Every now and then some jesus wannabe preaches about humility with no understanding, rather its from misunderstanding and it is forced. It comes from a bigger ego. I ignore such people. It has destroyed 2000 years of mankind. I don't blame anyone for that but men themselves
Bravo to Nietzsche... Hitler and others misrepresented him. Of thousand pages that Neechee wrote, in the end, only a few hundreds of pages were published in the book "Will to Power". Must be the same christian lunatics who must have interfered. Even Buddha's wisdom sutras and several ancient hindu scrolls were destroyed by mohammedans in India.

But as Buddha says there will be beings in future who will hear four lines of the sutras and they will be enlightened. And he was right, many Japanese Zen masters have been known to have been enlightened hearing some four lines of the sutras in the market place. They did not move from their place whereever and whenever they heard it. They stood still. They went to the mountain tops in aloneness.

I am so glad to have people like Osho bring old wisdoms alive in a different time. He is definitely a world teacher (jagatguru).
My own master seems to be quoting him so often but does not grant him credit. Could it be out of ignorance or intentional, I do not know. I was under the impression that my master made those quotes himself and then when I came across Osho's teachings I came to know that he has borrowed it. Many have done so all over the world. Not every enlightened ones such as my guru can teach or help a great many people. Therefore I am accepting of that. Osho's ruses has worked wonderfully. A part of me is convinced that, there is no difference between us. It does not matter who says it as long as it is the truth. We belong to the collective human consciousness as some great mystic put it once. And each contributes to that in their own way.

[**note made some edits on april 27]
Ok..back to absorbing all he and others have to say .... If I still don't get enlightened after all that. I must be a buddhu (fool)
Or perhaps I am enlightened already but like to pretend I am not.

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Mannu
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posted August 17, 2008 11:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
A Zen Master, Rinzai, was asked, "What did you do before you
were enlightened?" He said, "I used to chop wood and carry water from the well."
And the man asked, "Now, now that you are enlightened, what do you do?" He
said, "The same thing-chopping wood and carrying water from the well." The man
was puzzled. He said, "I cannot understand. Then what is the difference? Then what
is the point of becoming enlightened? Before you used to chop wood and carry
water, now you continue the same thing. Then what is the difference?" And Rinzai
laughed. He said, "The difference is: before I was doing it because I had to do it, it
was a duty. Now it is a joy. The quality has changed-the work is the same."

--The small things of life have to be transformed by your inner transformation. This I call the religious quality; everything becomes sacred. Taking a Bath, making love, eating food, going to sleep,-everything becomes sacred.

OSHO.
Tarot in the Spirit of Zen.

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posted August 18, 2008 12:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
I would also say if one claims to be fully enlightened, be it a human or God...
Then it has ended its ability to learn and cannot evolve more...by choice born of self delusion.
It is the eternal journey with no final destination nor an end to learning that matters.
I intend to keep learning forever
All else is an illusion of completion, an illusion of the self ego of having achieved a perfection of self. If one feels they have reached the apex of their evolution, then they are full of themselves and in a stasis a spiritual state which will lead to stagnation and no more evolving.
If one thinks themselves as having reached an end, of having reached complete enlightenment...then what is the purpose of infinity, eternity, that which is unending?

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Mannu
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posted August 18, 2008 08:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message

quote:
Buddha says - Aes Dhammo Sanantano

translation - this is the eternal law

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posted August 18, 2008 07:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
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posted August 18, 2008 08:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
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posted August 18, 2008 09:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
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Mannu
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posted August 18, 2008 10:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
More on Dhamma
http://www.osho.nl/New-Osho-NL/EnglBooks/Dhammapada.htm

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posted August 19, 2008 01:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
On some things I agree with you, on some I do not.
Very interesting nevertheless
I shall drop in later when I get time and reply better.

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posted August 19, 2008 02:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message
Interesting.

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Mannu
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posted August 19, 2008 02:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
>>>On some things I agree with you, on some I do not.

It is perfectly ok to disagree.
Somethings only you are meant to find out. And that is your purpose.
Just as I have mine. Actually purpose /goals etc are such bad words. But I had to make a point therefore used it

When we talk of mind/ego/reincarnation/void. Words will create conflict. Ok deleting the posts - because truth has to be heard in presense of buddha.
i ain't no master yet

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posted April 27, 2009 04:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mannu     Edit/Delete Message
Good Lord,
Only this thread seems to have been spammed in this forum. Coincidence?

"It is the eternal journey with no final destination nor an end to learning that matters"

Indeed the "unknowable" remains eternally so, for both men and Gods(jesus, sidd, krishna, etc) , no exceptions.

quote:

...But say: 'Allah,' and you will see marvels." [Letters of a Sufi Master]


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posted April 27, 2009 07:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SilverStone     Edit/Delete Message
I just read those posts, and deleted them... Hmm.. I will let Randall know of this!
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