09-24-2010, 12:00 AM
lex icon wrote:[img]file:///Users/karldisley/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-2.png[/img]I am Nagarjuna!
Beginningless dharmakaya, not being composed of aggregates, is happiness.
The voice that is without interuption and transcends the very concept of “voice”, not having material characteristics, is happiness. The mind of wisdom that transcends the very concept of “mind”, not having either birth nor death, is happiness. I have understood that bodhicitta is total bliss!
Now look carefully at this. Even though Nagarjuna was very accomplished, fully conversant with the three pitakas, founder of the Madhyamaka school, and enlightened by Zen standards, Nagarjuna was still after something! What he found was beyond the teachings of cause and effect, beyond the sutra considerations of Zen, beyond the transformations of Tantra. What made him aware that the approaches of what came to be known as Zen and the approaches of Tantra lacked something?
Is it becasue he aknowleges effortlessness? That Zen Sutra considerations and Tantric rituals point to something--effort, but bodhicitta is already realized, never began, "I am" that.
And why effortlessness would be eventually needed is because it removes all distinctions.
Beginningless dharmakaya, not being composed of aggregates, is happiness.
The voice that is without interuption and transcends the very concept of “voice”, not having material characteristics, is happiness. The mind of wisdom that transcends the very concept of “mind”, not having either birth nor death, is happiness. I have understood that bodhicitta is total bliss!
Now look carefully at this. Even though Nagarjuna was very accomplished, fully conversant with the three pitakas, founder of the Madhyamaka school, and enlightened by Zen standards, Nagarjuna was still after something! What he found was beyond the teachings of cause and effect, beyond the sutra considerations of Zen, beyond the transformations of Tantra. What made him aware that the approaches of what came to be known as Zen and the approaches of Tantra lacked something?
Is it becasue he aknowleges effortlessness? That Zen Sutra considerations and Tantric rituals point to something--effort, but bodhicitta is already realized, never began, "I am" that.
And why effortlessness would be eventually needed is because it removes all distinctions.