Quote from: OpenGeek at Nov 27, 2007, 03:10 PM
with some more context, his quote was paraphrased from a poem:
Quote from: BUDDHA Know all things to be like this,
A mirage, a cloud castle
A dream, an apparition,
Without essence but with qualities that can be seen,
Know all things to be like this,
As the moon in a bright sky,
In some clear lake reflected,
Though to that lake the moon has never moved,
Know all things to be like this,
As an echo that derives,
From music, sounds and weeping,
Yet in that echo is no melody
Know all things to be like this,
As a magician makes illusions,
Of horses, oxen, carts and other things,
Nothing is as it appears
Which is a little more helpful, if you like that poetry stuff...
Yeah, those verses goes down like honey ... but I’m not sure if that is the reference for ZAP’s quote, as there are other statements from the Samadhiraja Sutra that go like this:
Nothing at all exists, and nothing is non-existent,
Or it would not be pure to enter the natural state.
There would be no entering perfect pacification
Of all the activities of deluded sentient beings.
... so the first line sums it up nicely and precisely, and we are all confused on a higher level now, I hope!
That much from someone who almost ordained as a Buddhist monk many years ago, but dabbles now with MODx instead ... what a karma ... and who probably has to spend the next lifetime as a moderator of a forum where all people are going off topic!
Well, things are not as they appear, nor are they otherwise, so no harm done ...
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