[Buddha-l] Aka-lika Forum

[Alberto Todeschini]

Curt Steinmetz wrote:

> 
> A little later, Leighton says this:
> 
> "This complex story of the underground bodhisattvas and the Buddha's 
> inconceivable life span expresses the vastness and the immanence of the 
> sacred in space as well as time and breaks open limited, conventional, 
> linear perspectives of both space and time.... The visions portrayed in 
> this story demonstrate a foundation for the development of East Asian 
> Mahayana practices of transcendent faith and ritual enactment of 
> buddhahood, dependent not on lifetimes of arduous practice, but rather 
> on immediate, unmediated, and intuitional realization of the fundamental 
> ground of awakening."
> 
> Personally I could nit-pick over the rather broad (vague) nature of 
> pronouncements about "break[ing] open limited, conventional, linear 
> perspectives...". But I haven't ready anything more than what amazon 
> provides in their "preview" - so quite possibly he gets down to 
> specifics later on.

Hi Curt and thanks for the quote.

I don't quite understand. Perhaps I'm spiritually impaired, 
transcendentally obtuse or intuitionally challenged. Or am I just too 
spatially and temporally linear to get it?

What on earth does that passage from Leighton mean?

Best,

Alberto Todeschini