so if things dont exist outside your mind

• Cenarious

  11 Oct 06, 21:01

  why am i not able to read other peoples mind?
• haaaaater

  11 Oct 06, 21:10

  i dunno wht ur tryin to say
• Cenarious

  11 Oct 06, 21:14

  Originally posted by haaaaater:

  i dunno wht ur tryin to say

  then read a "buddhism for dummies"
• Cenarious

  11 Oct 06, 21:21

  and why are we able to communicate with one another? why doesnt someone disappear from existence totally when i stop thinking about him or her? why were ancient people able to find new continents or new islands? what are conditions? why do conditions function if they dont exist? why am i meeting new people all the time?
• An Eternal Now

  12 Oct 06, 00:53

  Originally posted by Cenarious:

  why am i not able to read other peoples mind?

  It is not refering to conceptual mind, it is refering to Buddha Nature.
  
  Read: http://buddhism.about.com/od/zen/a/HuangPo.htm
• geforce

  12 Oct 06, 09:06

  dont think too much and get carried away. later grow white hair..
• An Eternal Now

  12 Oct 06, 14:56

  Originally posted by An Eternal Now:

  It is not refering to conceptual mind, it is refering to Buddha Nature.
  
  Read: http://buddhism.about.com/od/zen/a/HuangPo.htm

  Teacher Chen said wot... everything in Buddhism 'li2 bu4 kai1 Xin1 (Mind) Xing4 (Essence)'
  
  This Xin Xing is not our thoughts, it's Buddha Nature itself.
  
  Samsara and Nirvana is in it. Your thoughts are in it. Everything is in it.
  
  

  Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
  Buddha is Sanskrit for what you call aware, miraculously aware. Responding, perceiving, arching your brows, blinking your eyes, moving your hands and feet, it's all your miraculously aware nature. And this nature is the mind. And the mind is the buddha. And the buddha is the path. And the path is zen. But the word zen is one that remains a puzzle to both mortals and sages. Seeing your nature is zen. Unless you see your nature, it's not zen.
  
  - Bodhidharma
  
  Bodhidharma's Bloodstream Sermon