Codependant origination and emptiness

[Grym]

That is the same path that I followed. Buddhism explicitly calls itself a “come and see” (ehipassiko) religion, that you are expected to try for yourself to see if it works. I also tried it and, like you, found that it works.

rossum

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[billcu1]

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I tried to tell them they need to do the work.

 

[Grym]

Thank you Rossum!

Words I almost had forgot. From a gatha when I was little in Sri Lanka. They came back to me now.

Etipeso baghava …] suvakkahto etc

“Clearly sated in words is the teaching of the Buddha (suvakkahto). It is experiential (sanditthiko) and independent of time (akaliko). It is verifiable (ehipassiko) and introspective (openaiko), personally experienced by conscious beings (pacattan veditabbo vinnuhiti).”

It is a little comforting that out of all the gathas I recited without understanding when I was small my mind chose to remember this one! Providence?

/Victor

 

[billcu1]

I suppose a Buddha would see more than a bodhissatva. I myself am in not position to question Jesus or Shakyamuni. But it is possible that Jesus and other spiritual teachers of merit would teach about God a “self existant” being from his/its’ own cause because that’s what you see until you reach the buddha level and you can see that their are no beings of their own origination. Or Jesus could’ve known that and was talking to the people he was talking to in their language. Just a thought.