Originally posted by casino_king:
to say : [b]"to know reality is Not to know
reality" is simply say that you do not know what is
REAL?[/b]
do not know what is REAL or unreal is still folly.
the wise is more profound than simply "Not to know reality".
As the expression goes, ignorance(aka not knowing) no doubt might
be the overall condition of beings, but it is also through 'Not
wanting to know' (stilling the mind) that Springs All Knowing of
Buddha(s).
Stilling the water make the base and the reflection of everything
clear.
Not knowing and enlightenment complement each other.
See if Shurangama Sutra state of the emptiness of Conditioning
itself?
The Buddha said to Ánanda, "From
beginning less time onward, all living beings and in all kinds of
upside down ways, have created seeds of karma which naturally run
their course, like the aksha cluster.
"The reason that cultivators cannot accomplish unsurpassed Bodhi,
but instead reach the level of Hearers or of those enlightened to
conditions, or become accomplished in externalist ways as
heaven-dwellers or as demon kings or as members of the demons
retinues
is that they do not know the two fundamental roots and so are
mistaken and confused in their cultivation. They are like one who
cooks sand in the hope of creating savory delicacies. They may do
so for as many eons as there are motes of dust, but in the end they
will not obtain what they want.
"What are the two? Ánanda, the first is the root of beginning less
birth and death, which is the mind that seizes upon conditions and
that you and all living beings now make use of, taking it to be
your own nature.
"The second is the primal pure substance of beginning less Bodhi
Nirvana. It is the primal bright essence of consciousness that can
bring forth all conditions. Due to these conditions, you consider
it to be lost.
"Having lost sight of that original brightness, although beings use
it to the end of their days, they are unaware of it, and
unintentionally enter the various destinies.
"Ánanda, now you wish to know about the path of shamatha with the
hope of quitting birth and death. I will now question you
further."......
"All of you good people, I have often said that all conditions that
bring about forms and the mind as well as dharmas pertaining to the
mind and all the conditioned dharmas are manifestations of the mind
only. Your bodies and your minds all appear within the wonder of
the bright, true, essential, magnificent mind.
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/shurangama_sutra.htm
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