For those that follow the Three Vehicles

[THACS]

Those that keep The Sacred Lotus Flower Sutta within their Hearts,
"the Mantra is the Mind" and "the Body is within the Fleeting World".
Therefore in Emptiness there are no instructive meanings,
is there in this: The Great Cart thumps in agitation.


The mantra (Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha) is the mind (of Buddha)
the Body (ultimate reality as it is) All within this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

So, one must enter the room, dawn on the robe, have Buddha Compassion,
sit on the Throne and be Without Self, sense ultimate reality as it is,
all in this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

Or

So, one must enter the room, dawn on the robe,
have Compassion without Choice,
sit on the Throne and be Selfless, sense ultimate reality as it is,
all in this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

“The Builder”
Ignorance - Fear- Hate - Suffering
When people are born, they are born without Choice.
When they grow up and learn their Name,
they remember they were born with no Name,
born without Choice.   You learn that if you do not Choose,
others will choose for you and that choice may not
be the choice you would choose.

“ The cause of all sorrow lies at the very beginning; it is hidden in the ignorance from which life grows.
Remove ignorance and you will destroy the wrong desires that rise from ignorance;
destroy these desires and you will wipe out the wrong perception that rises from them.
Destroy wrong perception and there is an end of errors in individualized beings.
 Destroy the errors in individualized beings and the illusions of the six fields will disappear.
Destroy illusions and the contact with things will cease to beget misconception.
Destroy misconception and you do away with thirst.
Destroy thirst and you will be free of all morbid cleaving.
Remove the cleaving and you destroy the selfishness of selfhood.
If the selfishness of selfhood is destroyed you will be above
 birth, old age, disease, and death, and you will escape all suffering.”

"Through many births I sought in vain The Builder of this House of Pain.
Now, Builder, You are plain to see, and from this House at last I'm free;
I burst the rafters, roof and wall, and dwell in the Peace beyond them all."

 

 

 

The other posted is a Fleeting Flower.

[Captain Mar-Vell]

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A flickering lamp.

 

A phantom.

 

 

And a dream.

 

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Edited April 19, 2016 by Captain Mar-Vell

[RigdzinTrinley]

a bubble a bubble it is a bubble!!!

 

soap bubble

 

iridescent and beautifully flickering light on it's surface - yet you try to grasp the flickering lights and its already gone

Edited April 19, 2016 by RigdzinTrinley

[THACS]

a bubble a bubble it is a bubble!!!

 

soap bubble

 

iridescent and beautifully flickering light on it's surface - yet you try to grasp the flickering lights and its already gone

This: all in this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;

A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,

A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

 

Is Buddha's Dharma,

maybe you are like the Enkyoji Nichiren Buddhist Temple, that say you can " slander " Buddha's Dharma.

[RigdzinTrinley]

This: all in this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;

A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,

A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

 

Is Buddha's Dharma,

maybe you are like the Enkyoji Nichiren Buddhist Temple, that say you can " slander " Buddha's Dharma.

 

I was refferring to this quote of the diamond sutra exactly

 

and as long as there is dharma to be slandered there is ignorance - most probably mine or mabye the ignorance of the one who thinks that the dharma was slandered (in any case ignorance is the root of samsara so it should be overcome)

 

but then... if you think I slander or do not slander the dharma then I would question the one who likes to judge others of slandering or not slandering the dharma

[THACS]

The slander would be a quote from a "priest" of a Enkyoji Nichiren Buddhist Temple "...Even when we are not aware of being so benefited, because infinite merits are accumulated in this Sutra, it does not matter whether we are wise or not or whether we believe in the Sutra or slander it..." which he said it is the foundation of their practice.  But a Zen Buddhist did answer for you, when he passed judgement on all Buddhist.

But maybe you should look at different Buddhist Temples and see the Statue of the Bodhisattva Manjushri elevated or even "offerings" shown.

[THACS]

And this" A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream."

 

Refers to the Total Solar Eclipse in 2017