Simplify in life is easy said then done, however achieving it helps you to be free unevenly turbulent daily events. And accepting your limitation in wanting in any form like wanting to have more wealth, friends and social statues provides you with a more peaceful and meaningful life. Your mind will has less distracted or distorted thinking. You will gear more toward a spiritual life and it is much easier to realize who you are.
The Buddha had always taught that everything has
Buddha-nature, which means that everything has the capacity to get enlightenment. This was a very important teaching. Then one day, a monk asked Zen Master Joju, " Does a dog have Buddha-nature?" Joju said," Mu!" This means " No." That is a very big mistake! But Joju was deliberately making this mistake to cure the monk's attachment to ideas and conceptual thinking. Like most everyone at that time, this monk was too attached to the Buddha's speech, too attached to the Buddha's verbal teachings, to the words recorded in books. He hadn't yet attain the Buddha's mind. This monk was stuck in dualistic thinking. Zen Master perceived that, and said " No!" This " No" hit that monk's mind.
( I used to correct my students not attach to statues or temples. The true realisation comes from within.)
Buddha-nature, which means that everything has the capacity to get enlightenment. This was a very important teaching. Then one day, a monk asked Zen Master Joju, " Does a dog have Buddha-nature?" Joju said," Mu!" This means " No." That is a very big mistake! But Joju was deliberately making this mistake to cure the monk's attachment to ideas and conceptual thinking. Like most everyone at that time, this monk was too attached to the Buddha's speech, too attached to the Buddha's verbal teachings, to the words recorded in books. He hadn't yet attain the Buddha's mind. This monk was stuck in dualistic thinking. Zen Master perceived that, and said " No!" This " No" hit that monk's mind.
( I used to correct my students not attach to statues or temples. The true realisation comes from within.)
The Mahaparinirvana-sutra says," All formations are impermanent; this is the law of appearing and disappearing. When appearing and disappearing disappear, then this stillness is bliss." This means that when there is no appearance or disappearance in your mind, that mind is complete stillness and bliss. It is a mind utterly devoid of thinking. This your mind before thinking arises.
Empty mind is the mind that does not appear or disappear. Keeping this mind at all times is Tathagata Zen.
( This a very difficult stage or state to achieve. Only a very few people can reach such a level. No harm trying to reach this level.)
Empty mind is the mind that does not appear or disappear. Keeping this mind at all times is Tathagata Zen.
( This a very difficult stage or state to achieve. Only a very few people can reach such a level. No harm trying to reach this level.)
Buddhism teaches that our consciousness is actually made up of nine separate consciousnesses. When we are born we have the six consciousnesses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and thinking. After some time, when a baby is about two years old, a very simple kind of discrimination appears. This is the appearance of the seven consciousness, which is like-and -dislike mind. We often call it the discriminating consciousness, because it is the mind which separate this from that, good from bad, up and down.
The mind that remembers all our actions and experiences is the eighth consciousness. It is also called the storehouse consciousness because this consciousness stores everything we have done, thought or experienced. It is known as memory: not only actions from this life, but all our actions committed since beginningless time are kept in this consciousness. This consciousness is like a very meticulous computer, because it records everything we have ever done and seen and heard and smelled and tasted and touched and thought, both in this life and in all our previous lives. At night, when we have dreams, that is the working of the eighth consciousness.
The last consciousness that Buddhism teaches is our ninth consciousness, or our Dharma-consciousness, another name known as dharmakaya. It is also known as true self, or original nature, or true nature or Buddha-nature. Originally it has no name and no form.
The mind that remembers all our actions and experiences is the eighth consciousness. It is also called the storehouse consciousness because this consciousness stores everything we have done, thought or experienced. It is known as memory: not only actions from this life, but all our actions committed since beginningless time are kept in this consciousness. This consciousness is like a very meticulous computer, because it records everything we have ever done and seen and heard and smelled and tasted and touched and thought, both in this life and in all our previous lives. At night, when we have dreams, that is the working of the eighth consciousness.
The last consciousness that Buddhism teaches is our ninth consciousness, or our Dharma-consciousness, another name known as dharmakaya. It is also known as true self, or original nature, or true nature or Buddha-nature. Originally it has no name and no form.
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