[MD] Reifying carrots

[MarshaV]

“Epilogue:  Be a Light Unto Yourself

   “As his death approached, the Buddha said to those who were gathered around him:

                “Be a light unto yourself; betake yourself to no external refuge.  Hold
                 fast to the Truth.  Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourself.”

   “You’ll not find what satisfies the heartmind in a book, or in a teaching  You’ll not find it even in what the Buddha taught.

   “You won’t get Truth from the Buddha, or from a venerated Zen master or lama, or from a priest or monk or non or teacher or guru.  You won’t receive Truth --- what quiets the deepest ache of the heart --- from any other.

   “The only way to _see_ Truth is by noticing if your mind is leaning.

   “If your mind leans, it’s because you see something “out there,” apart from yourself.  It’s becoming lost in thought and imagination.  It’s being removed from immediate experience. 

   “Notice what your mind is actually doing now.  You don’t have to seek to do this.  You’re already fully equipped.  You don’t have to go anywhere or do anything special.  Simply make _just seeing_ your intention.  That’s all.

   “To awaken is not to hold the idea of awakening.  You can’t practice waking up.  And you can’t fake it or imitate it.  You have to actually want to wake up. 

   “Your the one you can count on.  You’re not other-dependent.  Everything you need is here now.  Just rely on _thus_---immediate, direct experience.

   “You’re the final authority.  Whether you awaken or not is completely up to you.”    

      (Hagen, Steve, ‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, pp. 151-152)




On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:52 AM, 118 wrote:

> This glossary sounds like pure static-ness to me, but suit yourself.
> Wallace is about as pretentious as they get in my opinion.  True
> existence indeed.  You know better than that Marsha.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:02 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>> Glossary
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>> reification (Tib. bden 'dzin),  Grasping on to inherent existence, projecting true existence onto empty phenomena.
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>>   (Wallace, Alan, ‘Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence’)
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