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Re: Cultivating stillness: wu, xu, kong and taijiFrom: Max
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-05-12 22:13:07
Remote IP: 69.86.147.111
Messagewhy this text uses three different terms for stages of consciousness, called only emptiness by you.
...Once you have realised these three,
You observe emptiness!
Use emptiness to observe emptiness,
And see there is no emptiness.
When even emptiness is no more,
There is no more nonbeing either...
These are the descriptions of stages of cultivation one goes through. My post on Kuan Yin method describes this in details.
As for the chinese term of "heart" as opposed to "mind", this doen't change the meaning of text. All the old spiritual texts are written in special forms of Buddhist Chinese and Taosit Chinese -- all specialized fields that take years of training each. If a person speaks and writes Chinese and looks at those texts, they would be unable to read them. There is a reason it is translated "mind" instead of "heart" to preserve the best translation possible.
Kuan Yin method
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