Luminous mind
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:00 pm
Luminous mind - I have come accross this term many times but never really figured out what is meant by it. Is it a mind without defilements or something else?
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See Thanisarro Bhikkhu's footnotes to the Pabhassara Sutta here.clw_uk wrote:Luminous mind - I have come accross this term many times but never really figured out what is meant by it. Is it a mind without defilements or something else?
It would not be appropriate to make such comparisons in a forum for "Classical Theravada". I think it would be better to ask Mahayana Buddhists that question elsewhere.clw_uk wrote:Is this simila to mahayana buddha nature?
I would be interested in hearing more about this. Could the moderator perhaps move this question to the appropriate forum?Individual wrote:It would not be appropriate to make such comparisons in a forum for "Classical Theravada". I think it would be better to ask Mahayana Buddhists that question elsewhere.clw_uk wrote:Is this simila to mahayana buddha nature?
Generally we prefer to respect the choice of the original poster as to where his or her thread should be located. You are of course welcome to start a thread on this question in a forum of your own choosing.Lazy_eye wrote:I would be interested in hearing more about this. Could the moderator perhaps move this question to the appropriate forum?
Quoting the Buddha, Dhammapada 279:Lazy_eye wrote:And if I may ask the obvious beginner's question, how is "luminous mind" differentiated from "atman" -- in other words, how is it not a case of sneaking an atman in through the back door? Is it that luminous mind is universal and non-differentiated, whereas atman always implies the idea of a self?
"All phenomena are not-self."Sabbe dhamma anatta
Umm, why?Rui Sousa wrote:
I recommend this text from Venerable Thanissaro: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... tself.html
In my interpretation of Ven. Thanissaro's text, he ends up saying that conjecturing on the existence of a self, or on its non existence, is not conductive to the cessation of suffering.robertk wrote:Umm, why?Rui Sousa wrote:
I recommend this text from Venerable Thanissaro: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... tself.html