http://explorations.chasrmartin.com Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:08:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/buddhist-texts/the-prajnaparamita-sutra/comment-page-1/#comment-742 Monkey! | Explorations Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:31:24 +0000 http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/?page_id=123#comment-742 [...] the way, really old folks like me might recognize this as similar to the movie Alakazam the Great, in Japanese Saiyuki, from about 1960. I remember loving it when I saw it and every other kid [...] [...] the way, really old folks like me might recognize this as similar to the movie Alakazam the Great, in Japanese Saiyuki, from about 1960. I remember loving it when I saw it and every other kid [...]

]]> http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/buddhist-texts/the-prajnaparamita-sutra/comment-page-1/#comment-699 Parallels | Explorations Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:59:08 +0000 http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/?page_id=123#comment-699 [...] Parallels … we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal. &mdash 2 Corinthians 4:18 Form is Sunyata, empty. …. Dharma neither arises nor ends, it isn’t pure or impure, it doesn’t grow and it doesn’t shrink. …. By way of the perfection of wisdom (prajñaparamita), the bodhisattva’s mind is freed of clinging. With no clinging, there is no fear; freed from distortion and delusion, ultimate liberation is manifest. — from The Prajñaparamita Hridaya Sutra [...] [...] Parallels … we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal. &mdash 2 Corinthians 4:18 Form is Sunyata, empty. …. Dharma neither arises nor ends, it isn’t pure or impure, it doesn’t grow and it doesn’t shrink. …. By way of the perfection of wisdom (prajñaparamita), the bodhisattva’s mind is freed of clinging. With no clinging, there is no fear; freed from distortion and delusion, ultimate liberation is manifest. — from The Prajñaparamita Hridaya Sutra [...]

]]> http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/buddhist-texts/the-prajnaparamita-sutra/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Some Thoughts on Buddhism and “Deisms” | Explorations Thu, 15 May 2008 18:06:39 +0000 http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/?page_id=123#comment-257 [...] Brooks’s notion that enuroscience and Buddhism are reaching similar conclusions, though, is a good one. “[T]he self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships,” is good Buddhism, from the start to current understanding: it’s called “the doctrine of anatman”, which is to say “the doctrine of the non-existence of a permanent and immutable soul.” The whole notion of a sense of self is “illusion” (Sunyata) and “consciousness” is specifically an epiphenomenon that arises as a result of perception, interpretation, and recall. (See, for example, my translation and gloss of the prajñaparamita hridaya sutra.) [...] [...] Brooks’s notion that enuroscience and Buddhism are reaching similar conclusions, though, is a good one. “[T]he self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships,” is good Buddhism, from the start to current understanding: it’s called “the doctrine of anatman”, which is to say “the doctrine of the non-existence of a permanent and immutable soul.” The whole notion of a sense of self is “illusion” (Sunyata) and “consciousness” is specifically an epiphenomenon that arises as a result of perception, interpretation, and recall. (See, for example, my translation and gloss of the prajñaparamita hridaya sutra.) [...]

]]> http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/buddhist-texts/the-prajnaparamita-sutra/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Administrivia | Explorations Sun, 11 May 2008 00:39:22 +0000 http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/?page_id=123#comment-254 [...] note that I’ve updated the Prajñaparamita Hridaya Sutra page with some further explanaiton, following the Sunyata post [...] [...] note that I’ve updated the Prajñaparamita Hridaya Sutra page with some further explanaiton, following the Sunyata post [...]

]]> http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/buddhist-texts/the-prajnaparamita-sutra/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Śūnyatā | Explorations Sun, 11 May 2008 00:14:45 +0000 http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/?page_id=123#comment-253 [...] point to that has some unchanging, unconditioned existence. So when we read the Heart Sutra, the prajñaparamitahridayasutra, we see that Avalokitesvara “saw (through) the five skandhas, saw they were empty of [...] [...] point to that has some unchanging, unconditioned existence. So when we read the Heart Sutra, the prajñaparamitahridayasutra, we see that Avalokitesvara “saw (through) the five skandhas, saw they were empty of [...]

]]> http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/buddhist-texts/the-prajnaparamita-sutra/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Finally… | Explorations Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:01:47 +0000 http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/?page_id=123#comment-246 [...] put my gloss on the Heart (prajñaparamitahridaya) Sutra up under Buddhist [...] [...] put my gloss on the Heart (prajñaparamitahridaya) Sutra up under Buddhist [...]

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