Vibe, again, I will post the first statement ever made.
"Jesus Christ reanactment there. It's the part where he's talking about how the EYEs don't see it's the MIND. And that if Eyes see Lanterns could see. LANTERNS COULD SEE."
Then you got the sutta real good, so good I got gooded by your goodness, remember when you were all:
"A bit out of your realm I guess. If eyes can see lanterns can see is about energy being energy. You seem to be either a literalist or you have tried to read the suttras without any base knowledge."
THAT WAS GOOD, E=mc2 Fantastic laura davis. Tastic.
Immediatly after this post, I responded. How great for you.
"He was talking about perceptions as far as I know"
Good ol perceptions.
"When you close your eyes do you still see? You see the darkness or the light beyond your eyelids, so is it your eyes that see? No it's your mind. In the same manner when you light a lantern in the dark is it the lantern that sees for you?"
Good ol Buddhist style scripture.
"The eyes show you things. The lantern shows you things. The mind can still perceive without the eyes or the lanterns. Thus, it is the mind that truly "sees" or understands."
OMG, THE MIND TRULY SEES? WHAT THE FUCK, I DIDN"T SAY THAT A POST BEFORE YOU AT ALL. FOR REALS. I NEVER DID. I SWEAR I DIDNT.
"per·cep·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-spshn)
n.
The process, act, or faculty of perceiving.
The effect or product of perceiving.
Psychology.
Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.
The neurological processes by which such recognition and interpretation are effected.
Insight, intuition, or knowledge gained by perceiving.
The capacity for such insight. "
As seen in dictionary.com
I also find it sadly ironic:
"Not only did you leave out critical parts of the language that makes up the sutra"
"Seeing as how I haven't gotten into the sutras yet "
And you say it's out of my realm?
that's great vibe, really. Not only do you know the Critical parts of the Suttas but you know them without even reading them.
Read it, seriously. Guess what I was doing just there, I was practically quoting the buddha himself(notice the part where I said AND HE SAID, indicating the buddha. Isn't language great. We have pronouns), just in a slightly shorter fashion. Do you think in the suttas he comes out and says, "The mind sees".
Fuck no. What the hell, go read it. He questions them, baits them, to see if they can figure it out themselves, to try to inspire and teach, that's how the buddha worked, he was almost a prankster. I even gave you a shortcut with the mind part, he didn't even mention that till A-grown-man-crying later.
I won't respond to you anymore on this topic unless you talk remotely intelligently
I promise t his time
I feel like a calander/preschool teacher today.
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