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**Loolasant** · 04-06-2011, 10:59 PM

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

Absolutely Aloka. That is why Zen has been is so attractive. Some Zen traditions truly go directly to the issue of Dukkha and in that sense I feel we walk hand in hand with Theravada. Dhamma becomes complicated when we want to cheat the teachings of the historical Buddha not knowing we are cheating ourselves because at the end we do not want to give up our mental defilements that have been there for many, many years and this defilements take many ways to be kept in our minds.

I do not know WHY some traditions have made out from the teachings of the historical Buddha such a complicated thing full of mysteries so to be unveiled. This mysteries so to be unveiled are very attractive to the careless mind. In some way it is like the child impressed with the magician for not knowing that there is a trick.

04-06-2011, 10:59 PM	#4
Loolasant Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	Do we make the Dhamma too complicated when it doesn't need to be ? Absolutely Aloka. That is why Zen has been is so attractive. Some Zen traditions truly go directly to the issue of Dukkha and in that sense I feel we walk hand in hand with Theravada. Dhamma becomes complicated when we want to cheat the teachings of the historical Buddha not knowing we are cheating ourselves because at the end we do not want to give up our mental defilements that have been there for many, many years and this defilements take many ways to be kept in our minds. I do not know WHY some traditions have made out from the teachings of the historical Buddha such a complicated thing full of mysteries so to be unveiled. This mysteries so to be unveiled are very attractive to the careless mind. In some way it is like the child impressed with the magician for not knowing that there is a trick.
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