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Emptiness and Ways of Looking - (In Psyche's Orchard) 16 mentions

• whatever um even within the buddha dharma contacts of course and they bring
• commonly agree it's an important concept after all the buddha uses it it's right there in the wheel of
• a way of looking well we're responsive to what's needed and in buddha dharma we base our choice of way of looking at any
• i do think so and through the history of the buddha down through millennia there's been until very recently a lot
• response to what can often be and even in the in the history of the buddha dharma there's a there's a sense of the
• helpful in for the arising of faith you know imagine the buddha or imagine this or that
• what opens for us so for the buddha um i would say he was very concerned
• versions of emptiness um is is not what the buddha originally taught but that's just that's just again
• are seeing it freeze but there's many many you know when the buddha kachina asked the buddha what is right view and
• many you know when the buddha kachina asked the buddha what is right view and he said
• um what do you teach about right view and the buddha says i teach the middle way the middle way between ears and ears
• exist it is not for any any phenomenon i the buddha teach the middle way neither is nor is not
• consciousness and consciousness sorry buddha goes on to explain depends on
• lots of places in the pali canon and it's of course tied to the buddha was concerned with that and it's very an
• arahunt understands has penetrated and similarly and the buddha didn't just talk about the anata of phenomena that
• so why they're absent is it that in the time of of the buddha in india they just had better parenting is that is that

Soulmaking (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 16 mentions

• buddhist tradition there's this teaching of buddha nature in in the mayan and the vajrayana traditions now that teaching
• vajrayana traditions now that teaching of buddha nature gets interpreted in different ways in different directions
• shapeable so we have um a buddha potential we have a potential because there's nothing fixed
• eventually into into the uh into a buddha mind consciousness so sometimes that's the
• consciousness so sometimes that's the interpretation of buddha nature other times buddha nature is more seen as
• interpretation of buddha nature other times buddha nature is more seen as if you like a primordial wisdom
• this kind of independent existence so that's what buddhas know that's how buddhas see in in the vajrayana
• that's what buddhas know that's how buddhas see in in the vajrayana tradition and this seeing this
• skillfully mimicking this vision of a buddha this ultimate primordial wisdom awareness and one sort of
• you practice seeing in that way seeing how a buddha sees seeing empty divinity everywhere and in everything
• and what's uh the so-called bear attention it's not a phrase that buddha ever used
• whole i fantasy of a an idea of who the buddha was and what he is was the whole it will come around all that around the
• and the soulmaking comes around around practice path buddha tradition self etc as fantasy as mythos
• as fantasy as mythos so even in the time of the buddha in the pali canon
• whole fantasy and mythos about the buddha and the um fortune of living in the time of the
• um fortune of living in the time of the buddha as this sort of once in an eon manifestation etc

The Image of Ethics (Part 3) - (In Psyche's Orchard) 16 mentions

• completely beyond of the ultimate godhead of the divinity of the buddha nature the dharmakaya whatever you want
• body of dharma the body of qualities of body of attributes of a buddha of a cosmic buddha one could say in the
• body of attributes of a buddha of a cosmic buddha one could say in the mahayana
• theology and thinking the thinking at the time of the buddha and what we have now in contemporary
• it was the recourse to what did the buddha say and finding something innocent about and it goes back to the
• innocent about and it goes back to the buddha said so i'm just
• the divinity and things buddha nature and things you use whatever language you you like here
• particular attributes of the dharmacayo the buddha nature of the divine rather they become part of the machine whose
• an attribute an aspect a quality of the buddha nature of the dharmacaya of what the platonic terms of the intelligences
• its roots in in the divine being given to us by the by the buddha nature by the dharmakaya whatever words you like
• because of the spark of divinity in them because of the buddha nature that they embody carry express because
• volunteerism of the missing what the buddha said um is still you know active
• so that kind of idea and and it can be certain interpretations of buddha dharma um
• you know in um you may have heard of teaching in the buddha damage i think fairly common
• then we sense the beauty or the radiance or the buddha nature or the holiness
• framework we have of buddha dam for example the way we explain it to ourselves and to

Sense Desire - (November Solitary) 16 mentions

• of picking up the volumes of the buddha's discourses of the buddha's talks it's very difficult not to come
• overlook the fact that as far as the buddha and his teaching is concerned it doesn't have a very good press he's not
• but if you look at the the teachings of the buddha and how he talks about sense but it's quite dramatic images
• bird so these are not nice fluffy little images in a way the buddha is being very harsh you say wake up wake up there's a
• self-esteem really deeply truly the buddha has this beautiful stanza from from a longer piece and it's
• uh completely backwards of what the buddha taught actually really encouraged uh indulgence and he uses the word my
• released in about least awakening and meditation experiences don't the buddha said it's the other way around in terms
• very very important teaching of the buddha it says if by giving up a lesser
• the consciousness a little bit music we see by the effects when the buddha took his rice milk before the awakening
• but it actually opened something for the buddha so the pleasant and the unpleasant is actually secondary
• very clear connection there another passage of the buddha whoever has turned to renunciation
• reaction from a lot of people was that's completely wrong and the buddha taught and remember one teacher saying
• taught and remember one teacher saying the buddha taught that you know how can that the buddha taught the end of
• the buddha taught that you know how can that the buddha taught the end of craving and and the end of craving sense
• deeply the nature of experience so for the buddha in the dharma experience is not to be pursued
• as we taste that the more we taste that we are unhooked unbound is the buddha's words we let go naturally of all the

"To see no-thing is to see excellently" - (Meditation on Emptiness) 16 mentions

• so there are many many phrases of the buddha or other teachers both in the pali canon and in the mahayana texts
• general feeling in india a few hundred years after the buddha that a little bit of the compassion of the original
• seems to me quite rightly that in in the teachings of the buddha um it was just the personal self uh the
• mode right now exist for consciousness so when buddha's original teaching is just just relating to things on that
• and over famously the buddha said to ananda well ananda said to the buddha at one point
• famously the buddha said to ananda well ananda said to the buddha at one point i think i get it now i think i get
• dependent or rising i think i've got it and the buddha said don't say that amanda don't say that it's um the deep
• and ananda had been living really he was the buddha's personal attendant for years had heard lots of talks about this
• years had heard lots of talks about this meditated on it able to ask the buddha questions directly and receive answer
• questions directly and receive answer and directly and still the buddha said to him that
• profound profound profound as i said there are reasons that the buddha really questioned whether he should teach at
• caption is it's your mind that creates a world and it's a quote with the buddha i don't know where the buddha says that or
• world and it's a quote with the buddha i don't know where the buddha says that or if he even said it but that's that's the
• does the cessation of consciousness mean the buddha talks about the cessation of consciousness if we talk about fading
• perfection of wisdom the tatagata meaning the buddha teaches that one who does not see forms
• again the buddha teaches that one who does not see forms is going through the

The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 1) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 15 mentions

• cultures particularly but the culture of buddha dharma then we have this notion of no self or not self or the self is
• um and as i said levels there but what happens within buddha dharma culture with that is that um
• almost view the whole point or one of the main thrusts of of uh buddha dam what the buddha was saying state that
• the main thrusts of of uh buddha dam what the buddha was saying state that um
• um most important to the body of the buddha and and the teaching was this kind of
• hidden in there is an unacknowledged fantasy an image of the buddha of the dharma of the history
• things as they are a phrase that the buddha did use is that one and didn't use their attention but use that phrase
• acknowledge uh fantasy fancy buddha fancy of dharma fancy of history all of that
• is again in the teachings of buddha nature in in the buddha diamonds like that if
• again in the teachings of buddha nature in in the buddha diamonds like that if you like your true self if one uses that
• dogmatic kind of conclusion or assertion um the buddha said or the the truth of the self is what the self really is is a
• process and sometimes i've cracked what the buddha was saying the self is a process this is the true nature thing
• that powerful how deep again some ideas of of buddha nature some versions of the idea of buddha
• again some ideas of of buddha nature some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings
• some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings some philosophies in the west

The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 3) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 15 mentions

• cultures particularly but the culture of buddha dharma then we have this notion of no self or not self or the self is
• um and as i said levels there but what happens within buddha dharma culture with that is that um
• almost view the whole point or one of the main thrusts of of uh buddha dam what the buddha was saying state that
• the main thrusts of of uh buddha dam what the buddha was saying state that um
• um most important to the body of the buddha and and the teaching was this kind of
• hidden in there is an unacknowledged fantasy an image of the buddha of the dharma of the history
• things as they are a phrase that the buddha did use is that one didn't use their attention but use that phrase
• acknowledge uh fantasy fancy buddha fancy dharma fancy of history all of that
• is again in the teachings of buddha nature in in the buddha dam it's like that if
• again in the teachings of buddha nature in in the buddha dam it's like that if you like your true self if if one uses
• dogmatic kind of conclusion or assertion um the buddha said or the the truth of the self is what the self really is is a
• process and sometimes i've cracked what the buddha was saying the self is a process this is the true nature thing
• powerful how deep again some ideas of of buddha nature some versions of the idea of buddha
• again some ideas of of buddha nature some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings
• some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings some philosophies in the west

What is 'Insight'? - (IMS Forest Refuge) 15 mentions

• and when when the buddha taught oftentimes he was quite fond of
• comprehensiveness of of of the path and what the buddha is offering so one possible helpful division is to
• do arise they do come up more classically the buddha actually puts it the sealer ethical care and
• things inner and outer things so that's what the buddha calls delusion there's a fundamental mistaking in the
• big thing to say so the buddha at the the sort of fundamental is is core teaching with as
• until we're completely and utterly enlightened until we're buddhas there's always something that the mind and the
• in the sutras the the sutras the original discourses of the buddha but more in the commentaries you get the
• completely disappearing so the buddha there's a quote from the buddhism to
• cards what is not fabricated what is not in the buddha's words compounded or concocted we can know the unfabricated
• is where we talk about ultimate insight now and the buddha says everything's faded there and where all
• and again just to to be aware of it but the buddha is using this language thanks
• that's looking at them so the buddha says they're not real they're not not real they're dependently
• not understanding that about all things is what the buddha calls delusion so there's a
• so there's a interaction a dialogue that the buddha had with a guy named kachayana
• and nothing's real at all etc or it can sound bleak but the buddha is not saying that and it's anything but

Sila and Soul (Part 7) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 15 mentions

• that's a similar thing that all the wings of awakening that the buddha talked about the 37 wings of awakening
• so that's quite a common ancient view probably in the buddha certainly in plato and aristotle and in many ways in
• where am i right now with the seven factors of awakening and when the buddha gives this teaching in the fourth
• antinomies these impossibilities in my annotating uh buddha the buddha nature is said to have three three
• um and in my own uh in the mayana teachings a buddha is has uh the three kayaks three bodies if you like of their
• kayaks three bodies if you like of their being of their essence of what a buddha is
• mental qualities or we could say virtues and the the mayana buddha is a kind of really a kind of almost
• completely understanding in what way can a buddha who in my own teaching has all kinds of mysterious qualities
• between the notion of damakaya as part of the the buddha nature as a body of qualities including
• um perhaps in some ways we might construe the buddha mind in its um ineffable transcendence in its
• one way of thinking about it one way also tying it in with buddha dharma notions of buddhahood and notions of of
• with the nature of the divine of the dharmacaya of the buddha nature is really a kind of ideal
• sake of simplicity those precepts and the whole movement of sila in buddha dharma originally taught because it
• preserve a man from moral decay so even a buddha must choose will be confronted by certain situations
• both have a legitimate claim but even a buddha must choose and and there are consequences

Talk Four: Jhanas One to Four - (The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)) 15 mentions

• foreign oftentimes when the buddha taught he liked to present a sort of
• his students or his listeners i also get the sense with the buddha that he liked to
• the the buddha had a very beautiful poetic images for uh vaginas and just read you
• up the awareness and then it spreads but the buddha chooses quite an active image it's quite interesting
• beautiful welling up of happiness the buddha has a very lovely image for this
• everything when the buddha again the similar kind of image
• the pervading of the whole body if you notice every time the buddha talks about it he used that word drench it's a few
• great at all the buddha also emphasize this mastery and the kind of letting things ripe and
• one exclusively does one or the other so is it escapism the buddha actually would refer to he calls this this is an
• experience totally matches what the buddha said and then my next experience totally matches
• up the buddha said develop samadhi develop samadhi when the samadhi is really
• of didn't know what to respond and so he went back to the buddha and the buddha said to him
• you know it's a call as i said at the beginning that the buddha seemed fond of doing that so humbly i follow his
• um the buddha said there's no there's no jannah without wisdom but he also said
• one feels but that there is there's a lot of precision the buddha is extremely precise in his in his teaching he's a