Core of the Buddhism
Did Buddhism asked the followers to remember any special notion,
something like a rule of the “Preservation of Energy” in physics or
a special formula, or to do very peculiar practice ? (Don’t mix-up
with a funny ritualistic practice of Tantra sect.
Or their magic Mantra (Dharani) which was claimed to have a
supernatural power. — They are noting to do with the teachings of
Lord Buddha.)
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—– Such as Four Noble Truth = they are only a bit deeper
understanding of the phenomena in our life general.
= After all, what the Buddhism telling us were the Awareness
toward our own existence. Which is not far from our
common sense = Because all of us ARE existing more or less on
the same bases = Nobody was born to live for ever, nor born
with the wings to fly etc etc = nobody is superman, or
divine figure in flesh —– as no supernatural facts exists (other
than silly delusion or rumour) there couldn’t be any possibility
of the fantastic fabrication mixed into the Buddhism teachings.
(In deed, there are mountain of fancy stories = but they ARE
the fancy stories = nothing to do with the teachings.
— It’s a fun to see a fancy imagination of the people.) 😀
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Lord Buddha denied any idealistic notions as they are only
the delusions. (Therefore he completely ignored to answer
(completely stop to talk the person is the same to kill him)
the questions about “after the life” or about the “universe”
which is neither exists nor possible to know.
—– Considering the both subjects are the easiest topics to tell a
fabrication or a fancy story (because, to counter prove its fancy
story is even harder — Try to prove there are Heaven and Hell.
Then try disprove them. You will see it’s a waste of time = so that,
Lord Buddha completely ignored it. )
Probably the most important key to decipher Buddhism teachings
are in the story of Kisa Gotami (Running around the village) =
as a typical Upaya teaching, there was no verbal teaching but the
learning by the practice = Direct transmission to the subconscious.
= No lexical Notion/Idea or Thinking process.
And this phenomenon was also significant in this story.
—– Why it’s significant = because its phenomenon of
“Exists but Exists Not” character of the Subconsciousness
and this phenomenon is the core of the Voidness.
Dharma IS here or HERE all together IS the Dharma though,
since its detail is constantly changing moment to moment because
the Karma is active, it couldn’t be defined in one shape, still it IS
the Dharma. = This “Exists yet Exists not” character is parallel to
our subconsciousness. = And this IS what we ARE = and to
become aware this fact IS the Enlightenment.
(So, effectively it IS no difference to know who I AM = just
I am as I am. = That’s why, it is a Dog shit.) 😀
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Selfless = Anatman = Sunyata = Voidness
As I wrote in the previous post “No Teaching ??? ”, what
Lord Buddha was teaching was no other than the state of the brain “Selflessness”
such as when a person was completely absorbed into an action or practice.
(Though his approach to put emphasis on meditation may not be the best way.
==> So that many different methods was invented later).
But unfortunately, this neurological phenomenon and his Teachings has not been
correctly understood and kept by his followers. The reason was, as I wrote, it was
not clearly explained even to the immediate disciples and not all the disciples
necessary understood, let alone actually reached to a state of Selflessness.
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This history has been reflected to some tradition, such as that the Theravada sect
who is keeping rather ancient form of Buddhism define the “Voidness” = Sunnata is
pertaining to the Selflessness / Non-Self = Annatta, and this Annatta is in fact, no other
than the Sanskrit, Anatman.
Lord Buddha’s teachings had the fundamental stance against the Vadic Atman.
Therefore, it was NO-Atoman = Anatman. —– It showed, in the original teachings, there
was no separate notion of Voidness, because the feeling of Voidness = Detached view to
the world was a part of the Selflessness or Selflessness itself.
(The one who really possess the Selfless-eyes knows this.)
Because, when the Emotion was disconnected, and feel everything were detached, the
stimuli to any 5 senses doesn’t have significance —– it exists though makes no difference
as if it was not existed. Hence, didn’t need to specially talk about so-called Voidness.
(People who naturally acquired to speak English, as born in England, doesn’t excite or
talk about it. But foreigner who newly became bilingual tend to show-off that he can
speak English. = A person acquired Selflessness through long practice, doesn’t feel of
the Voidness anything special, since they gradually came together and feel nothing
that they are the separate phenomenon —– in fact the person doesn’t even noticed
such a phenomenon, either Selflessness or Voidness ever existed in the mind.)
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The history of Buddhism was the masquerade of sham Guru who pretended to know the
Lord Buddha’s teachings = Selflessness. —– As, there was a hear-say, the attribution of
the Enlightenment (Selflessness) is such as “Middle way” or a “Detached view = Perception
of Void” —– Those Guru pretended that they know the subject, and deployed the argument
while writing yet another script about “Middle-way” or “Voidness” simply they saw the
opportunities to become famous and rich. But in fact, some of them were Tantra, or
mixture of Hindu and as they were using their more familiar knowledge to describe
Selflessness and Buddhism, = Buddhism deviated so much. In fact some of them became
beyond the recognition from the original teachings and end-up almost like the Hinduism.
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Fundamentally, there couldn’t be any argument or needs to discuss the matter of
Middle way or Voidness, even the Panya Paramita as a separate phenomenon, since
they are naturally attributed to the same state of Mushin or Selflessness
= Psychological Phenomenon is Just one.
(A man in ill for caught cold shows the symptoms such as “High temperature”
“Headache” “Coughing” etc. so that to deal with “High temperature” alone and
dip him into a cold water wouldn’t help him. :-D)
People who doesn’t know the whole, in its totality, picking-up a superficial distinctive
feature, and talking in loud voice, pretending that he is The expert. Is exactly like a Theory
of Economics = use one monetary index, and try to describe whole economical trend.
Or mimicking the fashion of a star, and buy the same handbag, use the same buzz-word.
All those are the sign of “This person doesn’t know what he is talking about”.
Still, the trouble was that to the eyes and the ears of people standing by, who knows
even less, think those sham Guru looks, sound, great. —– The sensational new fashion
trend with buzzword of Voidness and the thousand of new-Buddha etc.etc. those new
concepts in Mahayana scriptures were made-up in this way. (But don’t get me wrong
I’m not against everything of Mahayana, as it opened the more flexibility and the
way of free thinking which is the essential to the Zen mind.)
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The worst was Nagarjuna who boasted that he brought back the scriptures from the
Dragon’s cave in the sea bottom. = What a shameless braggart. —– If you see it in
cool head, you may realize that he was a kind of sham doctor, a salesman selling dubious
beauty portion. And selling new buzzword of Voidness, exploiting the ignorance of the
Buddhists who doesn’t know what was the
Lord Buddha’s original teachings. (What Nagarjuna said, such as in the Panya Paramita
Sutra was not necessary wrong, and the funny paradoxical phrase was the attempt to
express the complexity of the human mind (co-existent Conscious and Unconscious mind)
though, to put such emphasis to Voidness alone was an indication of that he didn’t have an
own experience of the Selflessness (cut-off Emotional Region / Hypothalamus in the Brain,
hence the things and the matters were seen remote from Self-interest) = he didn’t know
that the Selflessness and the voidness was not separate phenomenon.
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To describe what’s going on inside of our body is not easy,
not mention inside of the mind, even to
Lord Buddha, especially, subconscious is invisible. —– Hence he was very reluctant
on the beginning (so, the scriptures says). That was why
Lord Buddha invented the way to teach direct, without resorting the verbal explanation.
—- though, some were worked, but not everything. So that, many different understanding,
interpretations were bore out, not mention convenient use of the term or notion even the
Divine figures from other religion.
When the person was in Selflessness, there is no need to have a Divine figure to worship.
Selfless hence with Dharma IS its state. Dharma is there together with
its mechanism of Karma. = It is not for worship but to live with.
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—– Of cause, the situation is more or less the same to me, I never seen how a
visual signal running from my eyes to the brain, = only guessing it must be like a
PET Scanner’s screen showed us. Still, as we know now, how the brain works on the
process of thinking, feeling etc. and we are able to shed the light
to the matter “What is the Selflessness” of which
Lord Buddha pointed out as the way to deal with Life’s problematic situation.
Now is the time to elucidate and Re-construct the teachings of
Lord Buddha to its original form. —– using today’s term = talking in a style and the
words, matched to the occasion and to the audience was the tradition started by
Lord Buddha. 😉
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