[Buddha-l] Re: Emptiness

[Mr Michael A. La Torra]

"Dante Rosati" <danterosati at gmail.com> wrote:
...
>i think Longchenpa said it best:
>
>cir yang ma grub cir yang 'char ba ste/
>
>"it has never existed as anything whatsoever, yet arises as anything at 
all"
>(chos dbyings mdzod I)


That is certainly my felt experience, if I may abuse the word 
"experience" in order to get at what cannot really be spoken. 

I am merely a practitioner, not a philosopher. While I rather enjoy 
plunging through the "thicket of views" on this list, I find very few 
views that I wholly reject or wholly accept. I simply plunge onward.

My sense of things comes from my practice of Zen. After many years of 
"beating my head against the wall" so to speak, I have come to realize 
what was always already the case. Dante's quote from Longchenpa 
describes it very well. If I had been able to meet Longchenpa and 
engage him in friendly conversation about our respective lives, I'd ask 
him "When did you first notice the obvious?"



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Regards,
Michael LaTorra
mlatorra at nmsu.edu
College Associate Professor
Department of English
New Mexico State University