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TOPIC: COWS' MINDS ARE PRETTY BLANK |
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Posted on Sep.07.2007 @ 10:55AM EDT by stephen
Is realizing emptiness the same as having a blank mind, free from all thoughts?
No. When emptiness is directly realized, the mind is free from thoughts and concepts. However, just removing all thoughts from our mind -- peaceful though it may be -- is not the realization of emptiness. After all, cows' minds are pretty blank -- they do not have many conceptual thoughts -- but they haven't realized emptiness! Realizing emptiness involves first understanding what things are empty of -- inherent existence -- and then realizing that inherent existence is a hallucination that has never existed at all. Ven. Chodron
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Reply from ______
Sep.07.2007
11:04AM EDT
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I am not posting any more replies on your pretty bloody vacant topics. oops a dumpty diddle ee ay doh...Amwuuuzing, Amwaaaazin'. Muuuuuuuuu. Awhooooooooooooooo...ow ow owowhoooooooooooooooooooooooo doooooooooo yoooooooooooo knooooooooooowing thiswhat sumbuddy elses saysing..innit? |
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Reply from ______
Sep.07.2007
11:10AM EDT
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Day cull 'em Blanked Franked dis yoor massager of dume ont yoor dishtrucksheyun...oh yah Thay saw priddy ow saw priddy uh huh.......v v vaaaycunt |
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Reply from ______
Sep.07.2007
11:12AM EDT
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Ont thay dunt care vot youm shinking yah? yah yah! |
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Reply from Woodsman
Sep.07.2007
03:35PM EDT
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If I could, I'd eat grass, the under your foot stuff. And I have pooped/peed outside. Yet I have no desire to be someone's happy meal. I'm just too lean. Everything I say is, _____. |
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Reply from boymonk
Sep.07.2007
03:52PM EDT
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One word: mu? |
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Reply from Woodsman
Sep.07.2007
03:57PM EDT
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empty... ahuhoo hoo hoo |
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Reply from Lynnoh
Sep.07.2007
04:39PM EDT
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empty of what? |
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Reply from Lynnoh
Sep.07.2007
04:40PM EDT
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"don't have a cow,man" |
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Reply from Woodsman
Sep.07.2007
05:07PM EDT
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easy for you to moo, but hard to undo
Before enlightenment I'm sure that everything gets kind of ugly. And that is the reason we are here, alive, to cosmically/physically/emotionally deal with all suffering.
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Reply from Lynnoh
Sep.07.2007
06:10PM EDT
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undo? |
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Reply from Lynnoh
Sep.07.2007
06:23PM EDT
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I remain quiet |
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Reply from Woodsman
Sep.07.2007
06:35PM EDT
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Quiet, is, the opening. |
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Reply from 77 zen ror
Sep.07.2007
08:57PM EDT
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Look at what a cow has to ofer to the world. No mine that ok . Look at some people in this world. A cow is at lot of things to a farmer. |
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Reply from kelvintan
Sep.07.2007
11:30PM EDT
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Hi,
Such Thoughts Explains Person Having Eluded Nature
Read up on Past Lives of The Buddha
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Reply from -----0
Sep.08.2007
02:35AM EDT
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Quote: "After all, cows' minds are pretty blank -- they do not have many conceptual thoughts -- but they haven't realized emptiness! "
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yes? how do you know that? |
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Reply from ______
Sep.09.2007
12:11PM EDT
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Are you asking stinky stephen how he offsets his emissions? |
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