Why it is hard for me to use conventional theories on emptiness.
If good/bad, nice/nasty etc are issued from our KNOW rather than THINK level of citta, it is harder to follow the emptiness meditation offered in the book that I am currently reading. They tend to be directed at people who live in their thought-mind level and have no awareness of a know-level.
In the example of the magician - also found in my classes recently -
1. CROWD: hears a spell and SEES illusion
2. MAGICIAN: says spell and KNOWS it is illusion, yet sees the illusion
3. LATECOMER: hears no spell and SEES what really is
if you are at stage 3, it is hard to learn how to reach stage 2 from stage 1.
Being at stage 1, but knowing what is happening, I share the MAGICIAN status and need to learn how to obtain the 'LATE COMER” status from there. I would regard it as successful if someone in the 'crowd' had the same result as the 'latecomer' whilst having heard the spell...
I can see that most people regard good/bad etc as a choice from their thought/emotion mind level, but as I use a deeper level from which to start, it makes it difficult for me to learn these lessons. It is easier for me to 'know' truth than to go backwards to live in a wrong way just to know what is empty in the illustrations.
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It is your feelings that matter...
Here's a disturbing article on the smuggling of Buddhist relics in India I came across while I was googling.
Might interest you.
http://buroangla.blogspot.com/2008/07/carry-away-relics.html
If my feelings are naturally occurring, yes, I would agree. However, if they are issued from my think-mind, they are more imagined than real, so I dispose of them. Thanks for reading my blog, and providing a link to something related to Buddhism!
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