dharma dan

• Eric Cartman

  28 Dec 06, 02:33

  what he described for the jhanas is so brief! i think i got the 3rd jhana according to dharma dan but when i look at buddha's description and my friend's description i realised that i am far from even the first jhana or even nimita! and he calls himself an arhat?!
• JonLS

  28 Dec 06, 04:41

  Hi Eric,
  
  All of those labels that you are using in your post are unknown to me. I don't have any concepts in the mind to attach them to, to make sense of them with.
  
  I don't come from a buddhist background.
  
  But that did not stop me from becoming aware of my true nature.
  
  Teachings are just words.
  
  These words are pointing beyond themselves.
  
  They are all pointing to your true nature which is clearly seen right here and right now.
  
  Can you see it?
• Herzog_Zwei

  28 Dec 06, 11:38

  Originally posted by JonLS:

  Hi Eric,
  
  All of those labels that you are using in your post are unknown to me. I don't have any concepts in the mind to attach them to, to make sense of them with.
  
  I don't come from a buddhist background.
  
  But that did not stop me from becoming aware of my true nature.
  
  Teachings are just words.
  
  These words are pointing beyond themselves.
  
  They are all pointing to your true nature which is clearly seen right here and right now.
  
  Can you see it?

  No, we can't... Otherwiser everyone in this world would have realised their true buddha nature.
• An Eternal Now

  3 Jan 07, 14:50

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