I am not sure if these notes will make sense. Much of this lecture was over my head.
The Mahayana emerged around the 1st century (at this point we are already 600 years into Buddhism).
Again Chris did a lot of talking about morality. He talked about when 7 year old boys go to the monastery
they are taught
1) don't hurt things
2) don't tell lies
3) don't steal
4) no inappropriate sexual behavior
5) no intoxicants
Human nature tends toward the good and the beautiful but hatred, delusion and greed are lurking.
sila (morality)
hri (heart)
true sila and hri arise from the heart
There is a moral inventory to be taken everyday
naham nasmi na me
I am not a subject
I am not a predicate
Nothing belongs to me
1st paramita/parami is dana (the giving of self)
na me = I will not own anything
The job of the sangha is the physical provision of material gifts
Vimalakirti said "The quality of my meditation is not diminished by the lifestyle that I lead>"
Our reality is inseparable from our structuring of reality through language.
Nagarjuna
- grasper
- grasping
- grasped
Tapas are austerities that reconfigure the relationship of I (such as fasting and silent retreat)
Try to not use I or Me.
Asat_ nonexistence,
? What was before Chaos?
? What was there before water covered all things
14,000 years ago there was an incredible flood and we lost memory
Joan Halifax book The Fruitful Darkness
Dualism in religion
CC asserts Zoastrianism a dualism religion greatly influences the Hebrews during the Babylonian Exile
. CC mentions Nieztche and his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Ideas of good and evil, heaven and will and a final apocalypse or dualism ideas
Indian religions are not binary - things exists in triplets and quadranaries
asti nasti
nasti nasti
asti nasti nasti
asti nasti
That which we think exists is not
to say that things do not exist is not the case
Existence and no existence is not
Yet there is nothing other than existence and non existence
Then red meditated on red
I saw my mothers's lipstick
, a bathing suit I use to love and imagined swimming at Beachcombers
, the red under the nose
and in the ear
, the burnt sienna of the buildings in sienna
The Mahayana emerged around the 1st century (at this point we are already 600 years into Buddhism).
Again Chris did a lot of talking about morality. He talked about when 7 year old boys go to the monastery
they are taught
1) don't hurt things
2) don't tell lies
3) don't steal
4) no inappropriate sexual behavior
5) no intoxicants
Human nature tends toward the good and the beautiful but hatred, delusion and greed are lurking.
sila (morality)
hri (heart)
true sila and hri arise from the heart
There is a moral inventory to be taken everyday
naham nasmi na me
I am not a subject
I am not a predicate
Nothing belongs to me
1st paramita/parami is dana (the giving of self)
na me = I will not own anything
The job of the sangha is the physical provision of material gifts
Vimalakirti said "The quality of my meditation is not diminished by the lifestyle that I lead>"
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| Vilmalakirti |
Our reality is inseparable from our structuring of reality through language.
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| Nagarjuna |
Nagarjuna
- grasper
- grasping
- grasped
Tapas are austerities that reconfigure the relationship of I (such as fasting and silent retreat)
Try to not use I or Me.
Asat_ nonexistence,
? What was before Chaos?
? What was there before water covered all things
14,000 years ago there was an incredible flood and we lost memory
Joan Halifax book The Fruitful Darkness
Dualism in religion
CC asserts Zoastrianism a dualism religion greatly influences the Hebrews during the Babylonian Exile
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| Zarathustra |
Indian religions are not binary - things exists in triplets and quadranaries
asti nasti
nasti nasti
asti nasti nasti
asti nasti
That which we think exists is not
to say that things do not exist is not the case
Existence and no existence is not
Yet there is nothing other than existence and non existence
Then red meditated on red
I saw my mothers's lipstick
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| painting by Richard Schmidt |
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| Painting by Sargeant |
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