Eddie On Everything

What a Fine Mountain

3 Comments on “What a Fine Mountain”

1. 
   Rencsi
   January 7th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

   I don’t know… Patience maybe?

2. 
   eddie
   January 7th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

   “The Way” is not something that can be explained or told; it’s something that you must train yourself to innately understand. Asking a master who has spent his entire life learning to understand The Way to explain it verbally is likely tantamount a person born blind asking a sighted person to explain the color orange – no frame of reference, all descriptions are meaningless and will never be understood.

   http://www.christophermclean.net/theway.htm
   So what is this ‘Way’ that Buddhists speak of, the Way that connects us with our true nature?

   In general our suffering arises based on ignoring these facts about existence: existence is impermanence, or change; and, there is no permanent and separate self to be found anywhere in the world, inside ourselves or outside – all things are intertwined with all other things. It is the lack of recognition of these facts that form the basis of our self-caused suffering. []

   Hence the ‘Way’ consists in connecting precisely, intimately, with our self as we actually are in this moment, and also, helping it to develop and mature through loving, joyful, compassionate and wise action; the way requires connecting with all of our individual experience – with the mind (subtle and gross), including the feelings and emotions, the body, and the objects of mind. So, as we take care of our self we engage in a practice of the self. The Buddhist Way doesn’t involve attaining anything over and above what we already have available to us – it involves knowing what is here.

   If a person asked me to explain the color orange I might reply, “Wow, what a beautiful tree over there.” If the person replies, “What tree, I don’t see a tree?”, I may gather that the person is blind. If the person can’t see the tree, how can I explain orange?

   Similarly, if a person insists on seeing the mountain, how can they understand that the mountain, and everything else in existence, is not really there?

3. 
   Emmett
   March 8th, 2009 at 3:58 am

   And so it is that most of the time we put the mountain in our own way.To not see the forest for the trees is really how we blind our selves to the complete picture not just the brush stroke.The simple things are simple because they are simple. Nothing less and nothing more.It is when we attempt to categorize and identify and pigeon hole things that we get lost in the clutter of our own making.As long as we create our own mountains we will gain nothing and go nowhere.

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