XieJia

Laozi is my grandpa, he smiles at me everyday. Laozi is my teacher, he teaches me new things everyday. Laozi is my friend, he is always with me in playful times and hardships. He laughs with me and at me at unexpected times. Laozi is my grandpa, he smiles with me everday.

Yeah, I use gems all the time. I worship them, revere them, take refuge in them. Take them with me during the day. And no one can part me from it when I am alive. You cant buy it either. The Triple Gems Sincerity in Heart, Mind and Body.

It is the base, if you want the knowledge of the truth then you cant discriminates. Rather than Think, feel! Well I guess my word is up. Wish you good luck Meow take care

I think the Media have been discouraged from covering it properly. I can barely find info on it. Best Wishes from Thailand

Dear Meow, Hope you are well, and still freshly to get what you seek. From what I read this whole thread, many people here are trying to share their experience with entering the path with you. All is good. If you follow any of them, you should arrive at the Knowledge you desired. There's much different path offer here, using the main motorway, by the seaside, in and out of forest and beyond the desert. All is good. Although the Daoist here, have a funny sense of humors. However let me borrow an analogy from Hua Hu Ching, All of these are prescriptions not the medicine. Doctor Jeff, Doctor Ambrose, Doctor K and any others give good prescriptions and supplements. Let me leave you with another thing: A Cup of Tea

Hui Neng's Platform Sutra But still, I am not from or lived in the US.

Hey! what about 'My' truth. Isn't it yours?

Dear Meow, As your username is related to Cats; I want to recommend this text: http://da2el.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/story-neko-no-myojutsu-mysterious-technique-of-the-cat/ It's about ultimate form of technique, the technique of no-relying on anything. Have a read with a open mind and tell us what you think. Knowledge is similar to that of technique. Wish you good luck in your pursuit. -XieJia

Really like Wu and Dawei's translation. Like the present tense uses of stuff And also Master Shen's stuff, Lienshan mentioned.

then it is hidden. If only people understands Marblehead ... Now is his deem to be misunderstood?

Self-actualizing of the foolery The fruits of questions and answers. Maybe we should only ask and don't answer.

Lol , we lose it when we see the choices and make them didn't we.

If the Buddha and the Masters could take us to the other shore, I am sure we wouldn't be here.

The Dao is free but does it have will. For things under Heaven, they have function but does it have fate? The Free, The Will, The Fated... What a concept...

-Double Posted-

@Sinfest; is your display picture a nekomata? @Understanding Hey Understanding - that actually sounds nice. What does it means to understand? What does it means to feel? Do you feel first or understand first?

lol, I am not sure about this but maybe this is how your prayer got answered. There's something along what you said in the Vimalakriti Sutra "Vimalakirti replied, "Manjusri, a bodhisattva shouldregard all livings beings as a wise man regards the reflection of the moon inwater or as magicians regard men created by magic. He should regard them asbeing like a face in a mirror; like the water of a mirage; like the sound of anecho; like a mass of clouds in the sky; like the previous moment of a ball offoam; like the appearance and disappearance of a bubble of water; like the coreof a plantain tree; like a flash of lightning; like the fifth great element;like the seventh sense-medium; like the appearance of matter in an immaterialrealm; like a sprout from a rotten seed; like a tortoise-hair coat; like thefun of games for one who wishes to die; like the egoistic views of astream-winner; like a third rebirth of a once-returner; like the descent of anonreturner into a womb; like the existence of desire, hatred, and folly in asaint; like thoughts of avarice, immorality, wickedness, and hostility in abodhisattva who has attained tolerance; like the instincts of passions in aTathagata; like the perception of color in one blind from birth; like theinhalation and exhalation of an ascetic absorbed in the meditation ofcessation; like the track of a bird in the sky; like the erection of a eunuch;like the pregnancy of a barren woman; like the unproduced passions of anemanated incarnation of the Tathagata; like dream-visions seen after waking;like the passions of one who is free of conceptualizations; like fire burningwithout fuel; like the reincarnation of one who has attained ultimateliberation." Robert Thurman's translation of Vimalakirti Sutra http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/Vimalakirti.htm

Regarding the highest, most fulfilled, awakened mind, I have not attained anything, That is why it is called the highest, most fulfilled, awakened mind.

@Meow There are traps that are unavoidable, there are traps that are avoidable. However they are not useless. As Marblehead stated before. When we people said Truth, we want to know its real nature. By pursuing it, we pick something up and neglect the other. By picking something up, neglecting the other thing is also there. by we picking up only what we think is natural and throwing away what we think is not? If so, we will always see only one side but not the other that we throw away. This is what we called the discriminating knowledge, the discriminating mind. the worldly knowledges are like this. lets ponder on this for just abit.

1 + 1 = 2? 2 - 2 = 0? 0 = 0 ? ...? ..? .? ? @Informer ^^ @Cowtao ^^ @H.E. ^^ @Xabir ^^ Bringing another perspective from another language... A monk asked Baso, "Why do you teach that Mind is Buddha?" Baso replied, "To stop a baby's crying." The monk asked, "What is it like when the baby stops crying?" Baso answered, "No Mind, no Buddha." -Mumonkan

@Xabir I come to know what I wanted to know. Doubts cleared! Thank you...

welcome to the ensemble! let the play be to your beat!

Thank you. Are there any sutras that you would recommend in particular? Or it is this kind of interpretation of the Vedas?

I think I understand you fully my friend. This is why I would also disagrees on the phrase, apart of the mind aswell. But in talking to Meow, I think it's essential to use the same names or that of similar. Me poking on your nerve would be natural too right? hahaha