A Hearty Dialogue with Buddha
Chapter one of Shurangama Sutra is a debate between Buddha and his disciple/cousin Ananda: it aims to elucidate where the true heart is, where the true mind is. As result I name chapter one’s summary “ A hearty dialogue with Buddha.”
It all started with Ananda’s close call to break his precept with a gorgeous and licentious Matangi mistress while out food begging, and it ended with Ananda’s bewilderment on where his true mind is, after undergoing a scrupulous and strenuous dialogue with Buddha (very hearty indeed).
As a flesh pumped by perpetuating tons of testosterone, haplessly and helplessly doomed by lust, handsome Ananda, once upon fulfilling the digestive desire and fully charged, was lured by the sexual desire of Matangi mistress, and following his biological calling; the small head took over, big head forgotten. Luckily, Manjushri, on Buddha’s request swiftly come to the rescue and bring them both to Buddha.
To knock Ananda back to his senses, Buddhist pursued Ananda where his mind is; after all, mind is the perpetrator of the deeds and eye the abettor. Ananda speculated vainly and heartily: within the flesh, outside, in the visual organ, the darkness inside, drifting with phenomenon, between sensory organ and environment, and even nowhere, with each of Buddha’s rebukes and remarks, Ananda’s self-confidence shriveled - he was mortified, petrified, and stupefied.
Buddha did not leave Ananda any room to ponder; he further explained the two reasons for our endless life-death drifting and suffering: we took the attached thought to be the true mind; and we mistook the byproducts of our essence with immaculate essence itself.
Finally, Buddha disclosed a startling secret: the universe, its habitant, atoms, and law of causality are nothing but the manifestation and creation of our one’s immaculate mind. Buddha further argued that if the mind is nothing but a collective hybrid of discernment, senses, observation and awareness, surely when we don’t discern, sense, and aware, our mind will cease to exist; but this is not true.
At this moment, let us pose and ponder: where is our true mind? Is Buddha’s argument and disclosure still infallible under the modern scientific scrutiny?
To be continued…in The Voyage for the Mind
Chapter one of Shurangama Sutra is a debate between Buddha and his disciple/cousin Ananda: it aims to elucidate where the true heart is, where the true mind is. As result I name chapter one’s summary “ A hearty dialogue with Buddha.”
It all started with Ananda’s close call to break his precept with a gorgeous and licentious Matangi mistress while out food begging, and it ended with Ananda’s bewilderment on where his true mind is, after undergoing a scrupulous and strenuous dialogue with Buddha (very hearty indeed).
As a flesh pumped by perpetuating tons of testosterone, haplessly and helplessly doomed by lust, handsome Ananda, once upon fulfilling the digestive desire and fully charged, was lured by the sexual desire of Matangi mistress, and following his biological calling; the small head took over, big head forgotten. Luckily, Manjushri, on Buddha’s request swiftly come to the rescue and bring them both to Buddha.
To knock Ananda back to his senses, Buddhist pursued Ananda where his mind is; after all, mind is the perpetrator of the deeds and eye the abettor. Ananda speculated vainly and heartily: within the flesh, outside, in the visual organ, the darkness inside, drifting with phenomenon, between sensory organ and environment, and even nowhere, with each of Buddha’s rebukes and remarks, Ananda’s self-confidence shriveled - he was mortified, petrified, and stupefied.
Buddha did not leave Ananda any room to ponder; he further explained the two reasons for our endless life-death drifting and suffering: we took the attached thought to be the true mind; and we mistook the byproducts of our essence with immaculate essence itself.
Finally, Buddha disclosed a startling secret: the universe, its habitant, atoms, and law of causality are nothing but the manifestation and creation of our one’s immaculate mind. Buddha further argued that if the mind is nothing but a collective hybrid of discernment, senses, observation and awareness, surely when we don’t discern, sense, and aware, our mind will cease to exist; but this is not true.
At this moment, let us pose and ponder: where is our true mind? Is Buddha’s argument and disclosure still infallible under the modern scientific scrutiny?
To be continued…in The Voyage for the Mind
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