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**plantBanceper** · 11-23-2011, 04:42 AM

It's my opinion that a genuine experiential understanding of sunnata (emptiness) is arrived at not through complex debate, nor through spacing out in an emptiness la-la land, but through simple analysis, together with regular meditation practice - and the purification of mental obscurations......

or from too much phylosopical wrangling !

meditation

and the purification of mental obscurations

mental obscurations ; maya the illusion that blinds clear seeing

To quote Ajahn Buddhadasa:

"If at any moment any person at all has a mind empty of grasping at and clinging to 'I' and 'mine', even if it is only for an instant, it means that the mind has realized emptiness. It is pure, radiant and at peace. It is one and the same thing as the heart of the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha. Thus at any moment that one has a mind empty in this way one has taken refuge, one has reached the Triple Gem." that realization of emptiness is the realization of the emptiness of illusion !

beyond that illusion , once purified , once removed , exponged !

It is pure , radient and at peace ....sat cit ananda , the essence of universal conciousness !

it is one and the same thing as the heart of the buddha , the dharma and the sangha .

so beyond illusion is truth , conciousness and bliss sat cit ananda .

conventional reality ....the illusory

ultimate reality ....truth conciousness and bliss

hope that makes sence

namaskars

ratikala

11-23-2011, 04:42 AM	#23
plantBanceper Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 375 Senior Member	It's my opinion that a genuine experiential understanding of sunnata (emptiness) is arrived at not through complex debate, nor through spacing out in an emptiness la-la land, but through simple analysis, together with regular meditation practice - and the purification of mental obscurations...... or from too much phylosopical wrangling ! meditation and the purification of mental obscurations mental obscurations ; maya the illusion that blinds clear seeing To quote Ajahn Buddhadasa: "If at any moment any person at all has a mind empty of grasping at and clinging to 'I' and 'mine', even if it is only for an instant, it means that the mind has realized emptiness. It is pure, radiant and at peace. It is one and the same thing as the heart of the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha. Thus at any moment that one has a mind empty in this way one has taken refuge, one has reached the Triple Gem." that realization of emptiness is the realization of the emptiness of illusion ! beyond that illusion , once purified , once removed , exponged ! It is pure , radient and at peace ....sat cit ananda , the essence of universal conciousness ! it is one and the same thing as the heart of the buddha , the dharma and the sangha . so beyond illusion is truth , conciousness and bliss sat cit ananda . conventional reality ....the illusory ultimate reality ....truth conciousness and bliss hope that makes sence namaskars ratikala
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