can someone here enlighten me plz
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"evolve" me
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Next next Saturday (10/6/06) got a talk on Heart Sutra by li zhu lao shi. Do come.Originally posted by Cenarious:"evolve" me -
Nobody can "evolve" you.Originally posted by Cenarious:"evolve" me
In many religions it is simply, follow a set of beliefs and rules and guidelines and do a lot of rituals and that's it.
Those beliefs and rituals and rules and guidelines are for seekers; in the meantime.
Meantime to what? That is what you should be interested in. That is something that comes from deep within yourself and nobody can "evolve" you. People can only "witness;" that is, tell you what happened to themselves. -
Related topic: Daily Enlightenment (May)
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how then do i evolve?Originally posted by casino_king:Nobody can "evolve" you.
In many religions it is simply, follow a set of beliefs and rules and guidelines and do a lot of rituals and that's it.
Those beliefs and rituals and rules and guidelines are for seekers; in the meantime.
Meantime to what? That is what you should be interested in. That is something that comes from deep within yourself and nobody can "evolve" you. People can only "witness;" that is, tell you what happened to themselves. -
if got time slowly read Shurangama sutra :
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/shurangama_sutra.htm
or better still if cannot understand read with commentry by Master Hsuan Hua
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Shurangama/Shurangama.htm
Shurangama sutra is said to be wisdom opener.
i extract a 'teaser':The Buddha told the Great King, "By watching the ceaseless changes of these transformations, you awaken and know of your perishing, but do you also know that at the time of perishing there is something in your body which does not become extinct?"
---shurangama_sutra
King Prasenajit put his palms together and said to the Buddha, "I really do not know."
The Buddha said, "I will now show you the nature which is neither produced and nor extinguished.
"Great King, how old were you when you saw the waters of the Ganges?” The King said, "When I was three years old my compassionate mother led me to visit the goddess Jiva. We passed a river, and at the time I knew it was the waters of the Ganges."
The Buddha said, "Great King, you have said that when you were twenty you had deteriorated from when you were ten. Day by day, month-by-month, year by year until you reached sixty, in thought after thought there has been change. Yet when you saw the Ganges River at the age of three, how was it different from when you were thirteen?"
The King said, "It was no different from when I was three, and even now when I am sixty-two it is still no different."
The Buddha said, "Now you are mournful that your hair is white and your face wrinkled. In the same way that your face is definitely more wrinkled then it was in your youth, has the seeing with which you look at the Ganges aged, so that it is old now but was young when you looked at the river as a child in the past?"
The King said, "No, World Honored One."
The Buddha said, "Great King, your face is wrinkled, but the essential nature of your seeing will never wrinkle. What wrinkles is subject to change. What does not wrinkle does not change.
"What changes will perish, but what does not change is fundamentally free of production and extinction. How could it be subject to your birth and death?
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/shurangama_sutra.htm
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The same dharma centre I visited last time?Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Next next Saturday (10/6/06) got a talk on Heart Sutra by li zhu lao shi. Do come.
But must see whether I got free time... -
YepOriginally posted by maggot:The same dharma centre I visited last time?
But must see whether I got free time... 
Do come if you can.. -
wtf use is this manOriginally posted by sinweiy:if got time slowly read Shurangama sutra :
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/shurangama_sutra.htm
or better still if cannot understand read with commentry by Master Hsuan Hua
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Shurangama/Shurangama.htm
Shurangama sutra is said to be wisdom opener.
i extract a 'teaser':
---shurangama_sutra
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/shurangama_sutra.htm
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Oi! Careful of your words... it will only bring yourself more troubleOriginally posted by Cenarious:wtf use is this man
Shurangama is a very very important Mahayana Sutra, it is said that it will be the first sutra to disappear... and will be followed by all others gradually. Which is to say all evil entities are going to try to get rid of that sutra from Earth... because it is powerful and will be a turning point.
Shurangama Sutra contains huge amount of wisdom. You should read from the beginning... about Ananda and inquiring into the 7 locations of where the mind is... it is a very good read. -
It is Leng4 Yan2 Jing1?
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Yep..Originally posted by concerned_man:It is Leng4 Yan2 Jing1? -
First find out where is the mind that needs to be enlightened. Same as Shurangama part on searching 7 locationsOriginally posted by Cenarious:"evolve" me
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7 ? i thought is 18 ?Originally posted by An Eternal Now:First find out where is the mind that needs to be enlightened. Same as Shurangama part on searching 7 locations -
"Ananda's Search for the Mind in Seven Locations"Originally posted by bohiruci:7 ? i thought is 18 ? -
Oops sorryOriginally posted by An Eternal Now:Next next Saturday (10/6/06) got a talk on Heart Sutra by li zhu lao shi. Do come.
10/6/06 is not Heart Sutra talk, but is also a talk by Li Zhu Lao Shi. The Heart Sutra talk is on 17/6/06, and 24/6/06 will be talk on 'Pu Sa Ba Fa'. Anway this month will be the first time li zhu lao shi gives dharma talk for the entire year... bcos all the past schedules packed with other things, preperation for events, and my taiwanese teacher's arrival and playing of his dharma talk on vcd made some of li zhu lao shi's planned talks cancelled.
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Oops wrong againOriginally posted by An Eternal Now:Oops sorry 10/6/06 is not Heart Sutra talk, but is also a talk by Li Zhu Lao Shi.
The talk on 10/6/06 is not given by li zhu lao shi but one of the 'ju shi' (lay persons).