08-18-2010, 12:00 AM
Eilias123 wrote:
SelfHealedMadman wrote:
"No self, no problem,” said the Buddhist master when asked to explain the deeper meaning of Buddhism." ~Stillness Speaks thread
The elephant is a perceived self, and something happening to "it" (event). A happening and happener. To acknowledge it causes guilt, shame, happiness, unhappiness, pride, on and on and on depending on the situation.
To know "you" and any event (elephant) are not separate is experience of non-duality, dependent arising, enlightenment. Hence, nothing is happening here because the sense of happening and happener are not separately perceived.
snowblind has a good response that the elephant is enlightenment. To not realize this makes the elephant appear to be "a problem" because its seen as separate. Then what would follow is attachment to perceived problem and desire to fix it. A mouse on the treadmill of duality.
SelfHealedMadman wrote:
"No self, no problem,” said the Buddhist master when asked to explain the deeper meaning of Buddhism." ~Stillness Speaks thread
The elephant is a perceived self, and something happening to "it" (event). A happening and happener. To acknowledge it causes guilt, shame, happiness, unhappiness, pride, on and on and on depending on the situation.
To know "you" and any event (elephant) are not separate is experience of non-duality, dependent arising, enlightenment. Hence, nothing is happening here because the sense of happening and happener are not separately perceived.
snowblind has a good response that the elephant is enlightenment. To not realize this makes the elephant appear to be "a problem" because its seen as separate. Then what would follow is attachment to perceived problem and desire to fix it. A mouse on the treadmill of duality.