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**Shemker394** · 11-24-2011, 09:52 PM

Some great posts on this thread. It's good to exchange ideas and re-visit assumptions - that's what it's all about IMHO. If we can exchange ideas without dogma, then we've done alright.

This is saying that sunyata's definition is that all things' creation, existence and destruction (or change) are governed by the law of nidanas.

Hi Yuan, thanks for the reply but I don't know what tha Law of Nidanas is. I don't even know what a nidana is!!! Could you please elaborate?

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I agree with Aloka's Ajahn Buddhadasa quote:
"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." Absolutely beautiful.

11-24-2011, 09:52 PM	#31
Shemker394 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 492 Senior Member	Some great posts on this thread. It's good to exchange ideas and re-visit assumptions - that's what it's all about IMHO. If we can exchange ideas without dogma, then we've done alright. This is saying that sunyata's definition is that all things' creation, existence and destruction (or change) are governed by the law of nidanas. Hi Yuan, thanks for the reply but I don't know what tha Law of Nidanas is. I don't even know what a nidana is!!! Could you please elaborate? __ I agree with Aloka's Ajahn Buddhadasa quote: "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." Absolutely beautiful.
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