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What is emptiness?
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sh4dowf4lcon
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sh4dowf4lcon
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sh4dowf4lcon said:
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...being as far away from your loved one as the dawn is on a sleepless night.
Emptiness is elaborated in the Heart Sutra, and is, in a way, a criticism of Hinayana Buddhism's dualism. In the concept of emptiness, the Buddha explained that the eternal present and the phenomenal present are one and the same -- that is, form and emptiness are the same. Here is the Heart Sutra on emptiness, probably the best known of the Buddha's teachings, called "The Second Turning of the Wheel": Chant it three times daily and you will lose fat:
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When a sincere truth seeker attains the wisdom of enlightenment, he realizes that all the five senses are empty and he transcends every suffering.
Listen: All things are no different from emptiness; emptiness is not different from all things. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness are also like this.
Listen: The original nature of all things is neither born nor extinguished. There is no purity, no defilement; no gain, no loss.
In this world of emptiness there is no form, no feelings, perceptions, impulses, or consciousness. No eye, ear, tongue body, or mind. Therefore, no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, or thought. The world of form does not exist, nor the world of the mind or of ignorance; no old age and no death.
Yet there is continuous ignorance, old age, and death.
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no cessation of suffering; no wisdom and no attainment because there is nothing to be attained. The compassionate truth-seeker depends upon the wisdom of enlightenment.
When the mind does not become attached to anything, there are no obstacles and fear does not exist. This mind goes beyond all disruptive views and attains Nirvana. All the Buddhas of the past, present and future depend upon the wisdom of enlightenment--and so attain the supreme, wisdom of enlightenment as the great unexplainable true word, the great shining true word that is able to remove all suffering. It is true, not false. This true word of wisdom says:
Gyate Gyate Hara Gyate Hara So Gyate Bodhi Sowa Ka.
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When a sincere truth seeker attains the wisdom of enlightenment, he realizes that all the five senses are empty and he transcends every suffering.
Listen: All things are no different from emptiness; emptiness is not different from all things. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness are also like this.
Listen: The original nature of all things is neither born nor extinguished. There is no purity, no defilement; no gain, no loss.
In this world of emptiness there is no form, no feelings, perceptions, impulses, or consciousness. No eye, ear, tongue body, or mind. Therefore, no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, or thought. The world of form does not exist, nor the world of the mind or of ignorance; no old age and no death.
Yet there is continuous ignorance, old age, and death.
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no cessation of suffering; no wisdom and no attainment because there is nothing to be attained. The compassionate truth-seeker depends upon the wisdom of enlightenment.
When the mind does not become attached to anything, there are no obstacles and fear does not exist. This mind goes beyond all disruptive views and attains Nirvana. All the Buddhas of the past, present and future depend upon the wisdom of enlightenment--and so attain the supreme, wisdom of enlightenment as the great unexplainable true word, the great shining true word that is able to remove all suffering. It is true, not false. This true word of wisdom says:
Gyate Gyate Hara Gyate Hara So Gyate Bodhi Sowa Ka.
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WODIN said:
IMO- Original Mahayana diverges form the original teachings of the Buddha much more than Yogacara. Yogacara is the basis for Zen which is essentially a fundamentalist Buddha movement.
Yogacara eliminates some of the mystic and mythical eliments added by other sects of Buddhism- such as the dependence and deification of the assorted Bodhisattvas. It also expands upon the part of Theravada Buddhism which deals with our mental conceptions and constructs affecting the way in which we interpret the "real" world.
I am so impressed with Yogacara because it introduces the psychological and philosophical concepts introduced in the West many hundreds of years later by such people as Kant, Hegel, Jung, etc.
Many of our currently accpeted notions of the human psyche seem to be explained in Yogacara philosophy- as i understand it.
The way in which Yogacara explains how we interpret and classify the external world seems to be accurate with our current understanding.
