Re: Buji Zen


stumper wrote:
> Awaken21 wrote:
> > stumper wrote:
> >
> >>Awaken21 wrote:
> >>
> >>>dkotschess@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Paul wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>The intellect typically gets it wrong.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Only "typically"?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>WAKE UP!!!
> >>>>
> >>>>No absolutes.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>After a while of practice the intellect gets it right. It's before
> >>>practice and in the early stages, that the intellect is less reliable.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>What does your intellect say about this?
> >>
> >> "OH SARIPUTRA, FORM DOES NOT DIFFER FROM THE VOID, AND
> >> THE VOID DOES NOT DIFFER FROM FORM. FORM IS VOID AND
> >> VOID IS FORM; THE SAME IS TRUE FOR FEELINGS, PERCEPTIONS,
> >> VOLITIONS AND CONSCIOUSNESS."
> >> http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/heartv05.htm
> >
> >
> > Close enough as words go.
> >
>
>
> Close enough to what?

Close enough to the experience to be helpful for another person who has
had the experience, or the sincere person who is perhaps close but
still working on it.

> Is that your intellect talking?

That's what I think, yes.

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