Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 2:23 am
The elimination of the asavas. Don't need the "it".LastLegend wrote:What are you cultivating for if not "it"?
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The elimination of the asavas. Don't need the "it".LastLegend wrote:What are you cultivating for if not "it"?
Fine, who is cultivating then?Kenshou wrote:The elimination of the asavas. Don't need the "it".LastLegend wrote:What are you cultivating for if not "it"?
Well if there is no self, there must be "something" there that is permanent? Otherwise an Arahant can get defiled again.Kenshou wrote:This conditioned process of mind and body practices for it's own sake.
Not trying to be holier-than-thou here, but your previous post seems to be positing some permanent thingie somewhere in there. Which, following anatta, is an unsustainable premise.
Not if the conditions for the defilements are removed. And though this removal may last the remainder of the arahant's life I think it's a stretch to argue that this absence is some kind of permanent phenomena and therefore there is a self in there somehow.Otherwise an Arahant can get defiled again.
Why does there have to be an experiencer? Maybe just experiencing? A process, an ever-changing flux, a doing without a doer.LastLegend wrote:... it must be "something" there whether people rejecting or accepting it. And that "something" is what experiencing phenomenon.
Emptiness-not rejecting or accepting self. Not rejecting or accepting is wholesome. Division or creation is what created self versus others. Why is there an experiencer? Well right now I am the experiencer talking to you. But then again not rejecting or accepting the experiencer because the experiencer would be self. That is why it's called emptiness.Dan74 wrote:Why does there have to be an experiencer? Maybe just experiencing? A process, an ever-changing flux, a doing without a doer.LastLegend wrote:... it must be "something" there whether people rejecting or accepting it. And that "something" is what experiencing phenomenon.
Otherwise you are stuck with dualities - "experiencer (in-itself) having an experience." Not really a sustainable position (see Nagarjuna).
It's called Dhammic free-for-all, and this topic is about Buddha Nature and I am here to share my view about it. You have the choice to accept or reject as it is not Theravada.alan wrote:I'm sorry to inform you Mr. L., but your posts have shown no logical consistency or structure. At this point it is hereby requested that you make a statement of purpose.
In other words, what the heck are you trying to say, and why did you choose to say it here?
Hmm... so what is this "experiencer"?LastLegend wrote:Emptiness-not rejecting or accepting self. Not rejecting or accepting is wholesome. Division or creation is what created self versus others. Why is there an experiencer? Well right now I am the experiencer talking to you. But then again not rejecting or accepting the experiencer because the experiencer would be self. That is why it's called emptiness.Dan74 wrote:Why does there have to be an experiencer? Maybe just experiencing? A process, an ever-changing flux, a doing without a doer.LastLegend wrote:... it must be "something" there whether people rejecting or accepting it. And that "something" is what experiencing phenomenon.
Otherwise you are stuck with dualities - "experiencer (in-itself) having an experience." Not really a sustainable position (see Nagarjuna).
What about suffering? It is caused by grasping to attachments since it has been a habitual thing for eons.
I am the experiencer who is typing right now, but would this not implying there is a self? But how can there NOT be a self when there is an experiencer, for example typing this to you right now? That is why it is not rejecting or accepting; it's wholesome as it is. So the cultivation is to get rid of grasping on to attachments or defilements.Dan74 wrote: And how can there be "no accepting or rejecting" when you have postulated a notion of experiencer, are you not accepting it? Have you not made a choice to go with this notion?