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How to �性？如何�性？
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You are asking a question which I'm very interested in.
What I understand from shifu is as follow :
I can explain better in Chinese.
è§�性一定è¦�超越ç»�对，没有对立。è¦�超越是与é�žï¼Œå¯¹ä¸Žé”™ã€‚å› ä¸ºæˆ‘ä»¬çš„è‡ªæ€§æœ¬æ�¥å°±æ˜¯æ¸…é�™çš„。自性如如，ä¸�动ä¸�é�™ã€‚本性空寂。
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I also very interested leh! �性 seemed to be known as �的性�Buddha Sakyamuni looked at the stars and got himelf enlightened. He looked at the stars or the stars looked at him or both him and the stars is in constant looking
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Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:
You are asking a question which I'm very interested in.
What I understand from shifu is as follow :
I can explain better in Chinese.
è§�性一定è¦�超越ç»�对，没有对立。è¦�超越是与é�žï¼Œå¯¹ä¸Žé”™ã€‚å› ä¸ºæˆ‘ä»¬çš„è‡ªæ€§æœ¬æ�¥å°±æ˜¯æ¸…é�™çš„。自性如如，ä¸�动ä¸�é�™ã€‚本性空寂。
My question is how to do it as we are living in a society where there are times when there are absolute right and wrong. Later I realise what shifu meant is not for us to behave like a stone. What he meant is we still can have views of right and wrong but let go of the thoughts once the matter is settled.
There is a Buddhist story, can't remember exactly but it is something like that : A young monk and an old monk met a young lady while crossing a river. The young lady asked the old monk to carry her across the river. The old monk carried her across the river and let her down after crossing the river.
The young monk was very puzzled and asked the old monk why he carried the young lady as he was a monk. Monks are supposed to distance themselves from 色. The old monk replied he had already let go of the lady just now and why the young monk was still carrying her till now.
My si fu keep stressing on the practice 'letting go' 放下, and 当体�空.
I am practicing it for now, hopefully one fine day, the switch will get flip on.
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Originally posted by Zenist69:
My si fu keep stressing on the practice 'letting go' 放下, and 当体�空.
I am practicing it for now, hopefully one fine day, the switch will get flip on.
My practice is inconsistent, sometimes can let go but sometimes can't let go. 有时想得通，有时想�通。After so many years, still like that. So how ?
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Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:
My practice is inconsistent, sometimes can let go but sometimes can't let go. 有时想得通，有时想�通。After so many years, still like that. So how ?
Try to let it go all the time? Or maybe you should ask your si fu about it?
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Open your chakra in your body.
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my technique is this :
when you see a sexbomb, just imagine when she was an innocent toddler.
it should work to reduce your lust to very low levels after that.
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Originally posted by Zenist69:
How to �性？如何�性？
84000 dharma doors... how to answer you?
My answer is: whatever suits you...
Personally, I used self-inquiry and it has bore results in a rather short time (two years). The practice of asking yourself, 'Who am I?' As taught by certain Zen masters like Ch'an Master Hsu Yun.
There are also many other zen koans and meditation techniques... I will not elaborate too much at the moment.
But here is something for you to ponder:
http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2007/03/self-liberation-through-seeing-with.html
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Now, when you are introduced (to your own intrinsic awareness), the method for entering into it involves three considerations:
Thoughts in the past are clear and empty and leave no traces behind.
Thoughts in the future are fresh and unconditioned by anything.
And in the present moment, when (your mind) remains in its own condition without constructing anything,
awareness, at that moment, in itself is quite ordinary.
And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly (without any discursive thoughts),
Since there is only this pure observing, there will be found a lucid clarity without anyone being there who is the observer;
only a naked manifest awareness is present.
(This awareness) is empty and immaculately pure, not being created by anything whatsoever.
It is authentic and unadulterated, without any duality of clarity and emptiness.
It is not permanent and yet it is not created by anything.
However, it is not a mere nothingness or something annihilated because it is lucid and present.
It does not exist as a single entity because it is present and clear in terms of being many.
(On the other hand) it is not created as a multiplicity of things because it is inseparable and of a single flavor.
This inherent self-awareness does not derive from anything outside itself.
This is the real introduction to the actual condition of things. -
Originally posted by Zenist69:
My si fu keep stressing on the practice 'letting go' 放下, and 当体�空.
I am practicing it for now, hopefully one fine day, the switch will get flip on.
Letting go is super important... but letting go alone doesn't lead to illumination. Some form of contemplative practice is necessary... a direct looking into your own nature.
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p.s. this is why 'letting go (by will) alone doesn't lead to illumination' -
Even if we were to search the entire globe, still it is hard to find one that can be completely detached. Try as we may, ‘attachment’ continues to arise. The reason being detachment is not a matter of ‘will’, it is a matter of prajna wisdom and only in Buddhism this is pointed out and for this I am grateful to Buddha.
Although it is not right to spout high views, it is also important not to over simplify matters. In my view, if our mind is filled with ‘dualistic and inherent thoughts’, even with utmost sincerity and honesty in practice, there is still no true ‘detachment’.
~ Thusness
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past, present, future, eternal
what links in common is the self: what were you? what are you? what will you? what cannot?
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My e-book/e-journal which contains my journal entries and instructions on the practice of self-inquiry: http://www.box.net/shared/u9mex7ackq