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**CedssypeEdids** · 04-06-2011, 07:35 PM

Earlier today I was looking at the back of the sleeve of my translation of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika where there's this comment:

"Garfield's interpretation of Nagarjuna is pleasingly clear and evinces a balanced appreciation of his soteriological concerns as well as his dialectial subtlety"

Later I was reading a little Ajahn Chah:

The Simple Path

Traditionally the Eightfold Path is taught with eight steps such as Right Understanding, Right Speech, Right Concentration, and so forth. But the true Eightfold Path is within us-two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, a tongue, and a body. These eight doors are our entire Path and the mind is the one that walks on the Path. Know these doors, examine them, and all the dharmas will be revealed.

The heart of the path is SO simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are. That is all I do in my own practice.

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques to develop samadhi and many kinds of vipassana. But it all comes back to this-just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle.

Why not give it a try? Do you dare?

http://www.what-buddha-taught.net/Bo...dhas Teachings

My question for the group is:

Do we make the Dhamma too complicated when it doesn't need to be ?

What are your own thoughts about this ?

04-06-2011, 07:35 PM	#1
CedssypeEdids Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 692 Senior Member	Do we make the Dhamma/Dharma too complicated? Earlier today I was looking at the back of the sleeve of my translation of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika where there's this comment: "Garfield's interpretation of Nagarjuna is pleasingly clear and evinces a balanced appreciation of his soteriological concerns as well as his dialectial subtlety" Later I was reading a little Ajahn Chah: The Simple Path Traditionally the Eightfold Path is taught with eight steps such as Right Understanding, Right Speech, Right Concentration, and so forth. But the true Eightfold Path is within us-two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, a tongue, and a body. These eight doors are our entire Path and the mind is the one that walks on the Path. Know these doors, examine them, and all the dharmas will be revealed. The heart of the path is SO simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are. That is all I do in my own practice. Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques to develop samadhi and many kinds of vipassana. But it all comes back to this-just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try? Do you dare? http://www.what-buddha-taught.net/Bo...dhas Teachings My question for the group is: Do we make the Dhamma too complicated when it doesn't need to be ? What are your own thoughts about this ?
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