When you experience this in meditation, it is the first step of realization in Buddhism.” ( The Zen Eye, “Meditaiton”, p. You will not lose your physical body, but will return and look at your physical body and realize this body is not your own. Your footsteps draw near to the great cosmic mind, and you enter. “When your mind is purified, the outside ceases to exist and you enter the world of pure mind, of soul only. Sokei-An indicates something similar when he says: The Mahaparinirvana Sutra instructs us to purify our heart of the kleshas (mental and moral negativities) and to “enter this Self” of the Buddha – the Buddha-dhatu. The Buddha-dhatu is the being, and the being is the Buddha-dhatu – as the Mahaparinirvana Sutra so crucially teaches (Dharmakshema version). It is impossible for the Buddha actually to be separate from what we truly are. And each person, each animal and each sentient entity enshrines the Buddha within his or her mind. But because there is that limitless ocean of Truth – there is a supernal and ineffable Everything. Apart from that boundless, all-equal ocean of Truth, there is nothing. If we attach to our minuscule ego as separate and isolated, we will fail to see the Wholeness. The essence of each being is one and the same – the “one taste” ( eka-rasa) or Single Principle ( eka-dhatu – according to the Angulimaliya Sutra) of the Buddha-Self. It is also the teaching of the Tathagatagarbha sutras. 31).Ĭomments: This is the understanding of Dharma that one will find in the Mahayana treatise, The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana. ![]() This is the Buddhist’s basic concept of the universe.” ( The Zen Eye, “The Universe is Another Name for Infinite Consciousness”, p. We think all existence is soul, an ocean of soul, and we are the waves. “… you think that your soul is your own soul, different from my soul, and that God created each soul individually. That is our core Reality – and that is the home into whose bosom we Buddha-seeking “orphans” need to return, as Sokei-An indicates. 4).Ĭomments: While Tathagatagarbha Buddhism would not say that we, as afflicted unawakened egos, are already Buddhas as we stand at this ignorant moment (because our Buddha-dhatu is obscured by numerous negative mental and behavioural tendencies), we are in essence Buddha. ![]() There is no other Buddha in the world.” ( The Zen Eye, “Buddha Nature”, p. Then, suddenly, he realizes that his hand is the hand of Buddha – the Lotus Hand. “Once in a long while, man realizes Buddha nature within himself. Of course, sentient beings are like orphans who never know their own home … We have nothing to do with the Buddha living in the Western Sky. Some Buddhists believe that Buddha has been living for a million years in the Western Sky. “Everyone thinks that Buddha is different from everyday human beings. Here, taken from the superb and invaluable books, The Zen Eye and Zen Pivots, edited by Mary Farkas (Weatherhill Publications, 19 respectively), are some of Sokei-An’s observations on Buddhist practice: His spiritual insights were profound and, while not 100% in conformity with Tathagatagarbha Buddhism, clearly issued from an understanding of Dharma that is remarkably consonant with the doctrine of the Buddha-dhatu. ![]() Sokei-An (one of the first Japanese Zen adepts to teach Zen in America) was, in my view, one of the greatest Zen masters of the 20 th century. So it appears that you don't go anywhere, you just stop making delusions. When the mind stops moving, it enters nirvana. It’s beyond birth and death and beyond nirvana. And by remaining in emptiness they remain in nirvana. But bodhisattvas know that suffering is essentially empty. By imagining they’re putting an end to Suffering and entering nirvana Arhats end up trapped by nirvana. To be impartial means to look on suffering as no different from nirvana, because the nature of both is emptiness. To look on life as different from death or on motion as different from stillness is to be partial. ![]() "The impartial Dharma is only practiced by great bodhisattvas and Buddhas. "Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way. The reality of your own self-nature the absence of cause and effect, is what’s meant by mind. "To search for enlightenment or nirvana beyond this mind is impossible.
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