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To: alt.zen,talk.religion.buddhism,alt.philosophy.zen,alt.religion.buddhism From: Ardie HellSubject: Re: 'Nirvana' and 'Enlightenment' (was Re: Phoney Zen) Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 16:50:26 -0400 ! wrote: > > dediu@webbnet.com: > #> What do you mean by "the light of mind"? > > Ardie Hell : > #Kinda like having a flashlight (torch) in a dark room. Mind we say in > #Buddhism is naturally illuminative. > > since 'nirvana' implies the extinguishment of a candle, does this > therefore imply 'no-mind'? "What is called no-mind is nothing other than a mind free from deluded thought." --Bodhidharma's _Treatise on No-Mind_ (trans. App) "As soon as you see that true mind is at root without delusive thought, you have attained true nature." --Yuanminglun No-thought may also be related to the Neodaoist ideas of Wang-pi, in which we are to understand "wu" (no) as a sheer creative potential, which in addition, is formless and nonlocal. A
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