Fw: [MillionPaths] Right Knowledge or Knowledge of Relations

05-30-2002, 08:15 AM

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Subject: [MillionPaths] Right Knowledge or Knowledge of Relations
Lankavatara Sutra chap3

Then Mahamati said: Pray tell us, Blessed One, about the being and the non-being of all things?

The Blessed One replied: People of this world are dependent in their
thinking on one of two things: on the notion of being whereby they
take pleasure in realism, or in the notion of non-being whereby they
take pleasure in nihilism; in either case they imagine enmancipation
where there is no enmancipation. Those who are dependent upon notions
of being, regard the world as rising from a causation that is really
existent, and that this actually existing and becoming world does not
take its rise from a causation that is non-existent . This is the
realistic view as held by some people.

Then there are other people who are dependent on the notion of the
non-being of all things. These people admit the existence of greed,
anger and folly, and at the same time they deny the existence of
things that produce greed, anger and folly. This is not rational, for
greed, anger and folly are no more to be taken hold as real; they
neither have substance nor individual marks. Where there is a state
of bondage, there is binding and means for binding; but where there
is enmancipation, as in the case of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, masters
and diciples, who have ceased to believe in both being and non-being,
there is neither bondage, binding nor means for binding.

It is better to cherish the notion of an ego-substance than to
entertain the notion of emptiness derived from the view of being and
non-being, for those who so believe fail to understand the
fundamental fact that the external world is nothing but a
manifestation of mind. Because they see things as transient, as
rising from cause and passing away from cause, now dividing, now
combining into the elements which make up the aggregates of
personality and its external world and now passing away, they are
doomed to suffer every moment from the changes that follow one after
another, and finally are doomed to ruin.

from: http://hjem.get2net.dk/civet-cat/zen...tara-sutra.htm

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