Friday, September 26, 2008
Pai-Chang
This is mind boggling to me. "After enlightenment you are still the same as you were before. There is no mind and there is no truth." I don't really understand how this works because the definition of enlightenment is "pure and unqualified knowledge." So if you recieve pure and unqualified knowledge then your state of mind changed. So how are you the same? I mean even if there is no mind or truth something changed to give you the enlightenment. Or maybe it just means that before and after your enlightnement you still don't have a mind or truth so the enlightenment was pointless becuase it changed nothing...
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wow at least i'm not the only one who is a little confused. After thinking about it alot I think i have a little understanding of it worked out... I think that he means that when u reach enlightenment nothing physically changes and your make up is still the same, only now the difference is that you have a full understanding of who you are. These words are extremely deep and a little difficult to wrap your mind around but that is the best i could do!
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