: for your interest

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Dear List,

 

Thought I'd forward this for your interest. I suspect if one takes out the

words 'citta' and 'Buddha' it would still makes sense relative to Advaitan

thought? Perhaps 'Buddha' = 'Self'?

 

Love,

 

Joyce

 

>From The Heart Is Knowing by Luang Pu Dun:

 

All one need do is liberate oneself from thoughts and views and we will

reach

all our goals.

 

One has to stop thinking and explaining completely. When words are no more,

the citta will appear, completely pure.

 

http://www.dhammasala.org/theheart.htm

 

Further quote from Luang Pu Dun:

 

"All Buddhas and all beings in the world are nothing but the single citta.

Outside this single citta nothing at all exists. The single citta, free

from the conventional self, is something that was not made and is something

which cannot be destroyed. It is not a thing with color, such as green or

yellow and has neither form nor appearance. It is not included in existing

things or non-existing things. One cannot have the view that it is

something new or old, longer, short or large or small because it is beyond

all limitations, beyond all measuring, beyond labels, beyond leaving a trace

and beyond all comparisons.

 

This single citta is before our very eyes but when we use reason to conceive

of it as a "thing" or "self", try it! we will immediately be mistaken. It

is like an emptiness that is without limitation and cannot be conceived or

measured.

 

This single citta, this alone is Buddha. There is no difference between

Buddha and all worldly beings except that worldly beings cling to various

worldly forms causing them to search for "Buddha Nature (Buddha Bhava)

externally. That very search meakes them miss "Buddha Nature". This is like

using Buddha to search for Buddha or the citta to search for citta. Even

though they may try as hard as they can for a full eon, they can never

achieve "Buddha Bahava".

 

What they do not know is that if they stop thinking and conceiving and cease

their confusion due to this searching, "Buddha" will appear before their

eyes because the citta itself, is Buddha."