Vajrahridaya
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Why not?
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The realization of emptiness destroy's nothing, it just brings the mind to see through itself and phenomena as inherent. This realization accepts and denies nothing except the erroneous cognition about things having an inherent truth. This is what I find the problem with these boards, people constantly read into statements, hey we all do it.
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Nothing is relative to something. In Buddhism, there is no ultimate truth and that is it's ultimate truth. There is no Self beyond phenomena.
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I have not said this. This is your erroneous projection based upon your preconceptions.
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There is no path Vmarco. Your understanding is erroneous, a subjective idealism. You think your comprehension and view, your interpretation and vision is an absolute truth which if we don't agree with, classifies us as idiots.
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i concur!
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I concur, though my attention is not a long or short path... this seems to be a stringent dualism that you hold as some sort of absolute demarcation of quality.
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Emptiness negates nothing, while seeing through everything, including itself as it's not a self.
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Of course I do... I just know that's it's empty of inherent existence.
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You gave way too much credit to the state of minds of any individual without realization. Certain teachings and methods can be dangerous to those without actualized capacity. It's dumbfounding how someone who claims to be as smart as you cannot see this, the same with GIH, two brilliant people for sure,... but. It's just easily seen through the eye of compassion why this is so. There is an energy about certain things that you don't want to dissipate and water down. You will project that this is mere conditioning, but it's really through seeing with objective eyes of compassion that the reason why masters do this, including ChNNR is because they do see what is needed for any individual. ChNNR is far more realized than you give him credit for.
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Yes, in fact there are plenty! But, you are too blinded by your assumptions and pre-conceptions, as well as this attachment to a fundamental basis of things that's causing an erroneous comprehension of the dharma. You are too caught up in romanticized ideas of these beings who's writings you swing on and quotes you mis-contextualize, and this fact diminishes your ability to see a Mahasiddha objectively. It's plain to see brother... you've got high minded pride.
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You too. I know we disagree on the fundamental nature of things, but... we don't disagree on the fact of the 4 brahmaviharas being the key to overcoming negative feelings.
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Yes, "like" water... quite flexible due to non-clinging.
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Ok ego. Nice rationalization for your existence.
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This is merely explaining dependent origination/emptiness within the spectrum of infinite dimension.
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How does that reify an ultimate. Even Robert Thurman say's. "The state of liberation is the same between Hindu's and Buddhist's, it's just that Buddhists get to keep it for longer." It's really that simple. It's the difference between reifying a formless transcendent and seeing it's dependent emptiness, directly. Once you think you've found a state that transcends phenomena, you've merely found another aspect of phenomena.
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Nice try.
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I would add the same to supreme "I" er's. This false sense of clinging to an ultimate Self of all.
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Thus the blind keeps leading the blind to re-absorption. I don't see how the 4 fold negation reifies an ultimate transcendent. As the Buddha said, dependent origination is the all, those that see this, see the Buddha. Everyone here seems to be fighting to find an ultimate self existence. p.s. Even Robert Thurman say's. "The state of liberation is the same between Hindu's and Buddhist's, it's just that Buddhists get to keep it for longer." It's really that simple. It's the difference between reifying a formless transcendent and seeing it's dependent emptiness, directly.
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Yup, you're definitely reifying a transcendent self existent and are far from what the Buddha taught. You misunderstand the mahaparinirvana sutra and instead of seeing the bodhi of the buddhas, you fall back on a formless state of mind as causeless cause. You've still got a long way to go, unless you drop your pride and get some true transmission from realized Buddhist lineage. But.. I don't see you dropping your pride any time soon, it's too powerfully based upon such a transcendent subjective idealism.
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It doesn't if you understand the Alayavijnana and you understand that we were never only physical, and that self clinging goes deeper than the physical brain. It's makes perfect sense, but you'd really have to get into studying Buddhism. Also, the statement you've quoted from tulku is wrong, he's misunderstanding what the buddha taught.
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You keep seeming to reify an ultimate, transcendent, self existing, eternal mind. I've had this experience, this as well is dependently originated and empty. This mind has no self nature, neither inside the skandas nor outside of the skandas. And Nagarjuna states: “The Tathagata is not the aggregates; nor is he other than the aggregates. The aggregates are not in him nor is he in them. The Tathagata does not possess the aggregates. What Tathagata is there?”
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Brahman means Ultimate Truth that Self exists, basically. As far as the religion goes, it's really just a psychological path that utilizes the body with a body of methods and a group of mental tricks that helps the mind free itself. It doesn't have to be a religion, but that does help plenty of people to have an organization that helps carry and evolve the teachings ran by enlightened individuals that are passing on the legacy that the Buddha left, expressing it in new and exciting ways.
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Buddha nature is not an existent that understands or has a will. It's merely a synonym for emptiness.