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Also see: Transcript of Lankavatara Sutra with Thusness 2007
Transcript with Thusness - Heart of Mahakashyapa, +A and -A Emptiness
Transcript with Thusness 2012 - Group Gathering
Transcript with Thusness - 2012 Self-Releasing
Transcript with Thusness - Heart of Mahakashyapa, +A and -A Emptiness
Transcript with Thusness 2012 - Group Gathering
Transcript with Thusness - 2012 Self-Releasing
Waiter: Do you want any noodle or rice?
No.
Thusness: these few days busy with my
stuff, project is getting bigger and bigger.
Me: you never slept?
Thusness: Never slept even an hour. Because
it is so rush.
Me: Did you sleep yesterday?
Thusness: A bit. Because it is very rush.
This morning I also had to do.
Me: But you have time now?
Thusness: (until) 5. I told him today not
to … I need to rest for a while. Cannot take it. Ok. Now you... that is to
say... to prevent you from entering into a state of arrogance, you need to have
inner practice, that is to say you must humble yourself. Because if teacher
chen is unable to teach you, your li zhu lao shi is unable to teach you, then
it is easy to deviate, unless your wisdom is specially great. That is to say,
your inner state, to prevent you from being off-balance, you need to learn how
to humble yourself first. Understand?
If it is like him (Chinese blogger), then
it is very difficult, because very few people are able to teach him already.
Other than that it is only a matter of skill or level of practice, because on
the front of wisdom it is very difficult to progress further, no way of going
upwards. Correct? No matter what you say about this or that it is just these
only. That is to say, your skill and insight and experience has reached to what
level? Correct? Otherwise (?) will enter into a stage of arrogance, this is
something we have to be careful about.
After that, from anatta to emptiness, your
view is all emptiness. That is to say, whatever you view, is emptiness. So when
he said dream-like, stuff like that, the most important point is
non-obtainable/ungraspable. So when you from a subject object view to
collapsing into anatta, at that time, entering into emptiness, your entire view
no longer has an essence. Rather it is entering into the stage of unobtainable,
ungraspable, no arising, no cessation, not graspable. That becomes your view.
Correct? Illusion-like, ungraspable, and the stage of Maha. That is also wu wei
fe/nonaction/unconditioned dharma.
Understand? So this becomes your entire
view of knowing things. And not having dualism view to (?) So now I have to
speak to you Chinese. To improve your Chinese. You understand? Why? Because
what is Dharma? What is Dharmakaya? Fa Sheng is what is called Dharmakaya. That
is you contemplate/see everything is the manifestation of Dharmakaya, like he
said – breath in, breath out, this is Maha. Maha stage.
Yet every arising is ungraspable. Because
its empty in nature. Dependently originated. So in this case, your entire mind
and your entire view is going into this view and this (arena?) No more a
subject and an object, no more something in time and space. No more such a
thing. You understand what I'm saying?
(Asks me to eat. He starts eating) When I eat,
there can be two ways. You can rest in liao liao ling zhi (The Clear Knowing of
Spirit/Intelligent Awareness), that’s clarity. Or when you are eating, it is
the manifestation of Dharma? These are two different view. One view is Advaita
view. How do you enter into this phase, means this (?) you take clarity as
principle/chief/primary. The other is taking Dharma is principle/chief/primary.
Previous moment, and this moment
Me: Clarity is like PCE focused
Thusness: So that is clarity. But now it is
the manifestation of Dharmakaya, like this one eating is just this eating, this
entire arising, total exertion, manifestation of Dharma. Dharmakaya. All is
just this one arising. This moment, this moment, all is the manifestation of
Dharmakaya. You get what I mean? Because there is no essence from this moment
to the next moment, there is no arising. There is no something that arises,
that abides and ceases. Because there is nothing at all so what abides? What
arises? What ceases? There is no… All simply arises as such and no more. Every
arising is also every’s…. This is the first question that I asked you ten years
back. This moment ceases as it arises, so what… does this moment arise or does
this moment cease? You understand what I’m saying?
So once you go into that, that general D.O.
like that, all is the manifestation of Dharma. There is nothing that is being
formed. That is formation. You understand?
So after that, your entire view shifted.
From all these experiences, all these insights, your entire view shifted into
everything is the manifestation of Dharma. That is, there is no Real, there is
only illusory appearance – there are only reflections. Illusory appearance. So
what is that? There is no reality, there is only wisdom – the prajna wisdom. Is
there a Reality to obtain/grasp? No. It is just a wisdom, a display of wisdom.
That wisdom allows you to see the Dharmakaya. Only the wisdom. Your entire
experience and insight bring you this (?) – there is no past, no future and no
present. All is illusory, like a dream, illusions, bubbles and shadows,
ungraspable/unobtainable. Do you understand? But every manifestation is the
manifestation of Dharmakaya.
So understanding this view, this
understanding, this experience, there cannot be attachment. So you can have
this view but you’re not there yet. You can talk talk talk but not there yet.
If you’re there, that’s Buddha already.
Me: There as in what?
Thusness: The full actualization of the
view. What I’m trying to say (?) a person can understand this from view but
without experience. By training himself on the view of emptiness, he can
understand. But it’s very difficult to say that (?) a person that experience
the I AM to adopt this view without genuine insight.
Me: ?
Thusness: For a person to accept this view
without genuine insight. Because he already experiences certainty of Me. So it
is difficult for him. Now it is a 360 degree change for him. So there is
already a certain kind of insight.
Me: Yesterday I was reading some of the
older articles, like those in 2011.
Thusness: 2011 is all I AM.
Me: Yah, then he explained no-self wrongly.
He said no-self is the awareness, the background, then you don’t have to
dissolve the self, you just have to remain as Awareness which is no-self, that
is like self is arising in no-self. Then I think in 2012 he started reading a
lot of Madhyamika and Yogacara and suddenly he understood.
Thusness: But his is very unique in the
sense that you say that somebody understood you must understand the… no-self is
not no self-nature. Anatta… when you of a direct insight it does not
necessarily means that you understand emptiness.
Me: Yah but he understands.
Thusness: Yes. So it’s very clear when he
expresses anatta. You can see the clarity, how anatta is linked to emptiness.
And then he also knows about Brahman. That makes it very precious. In (other
words?) he humbles himself down. Means can… he’ll be a good discussion partner
for you.
Me: And you said that you haven’t found
English speakers who talk as clearly as him?
Thusness: Means I can see the clarity of
anatta, the transition. You know what I mean or not? You see when he talks
about a dream you must also be very careful to go and find people talk about
you mean by (?) You see, they’re having
dreams Within awareness. Or awareness is itself part of the dream? That’s (?)
understand?
Me: But yesterday that article said
something like the truth is not in the dream (?)
Thusness: How you get to know the site?
Me: Can’t remember what I searched,
probably searching for some Chinese article on anatta and non-dual, not sure.
He’s author of some books also, maybe that’s why he’s popular. But his books
are not recent, I think they’re written maybe 2010. After I finished compiling
I’ll send you.
Thusness: 300 pages?
Me: Uh, still compiling, halfway.
Thusness: Everyday he writes an article?
Me: Yah. Almost everyday I think.
Thusness: When you must know… when you talk
to a person, depending on his insights, you must talk about the appropriate
things. Understand or not?
Me: Appropriate things as in?
Thusness: Like you send everybody my 7
phases of insights, once you open your mouth you made a mistake. It’s a
different kind of understanding until a certain level. You get what I mean or
not?
Me: How’s your new place?
Thusness: Ok. But those at that side, a lot
of people got many cars.
Me: No place to park?
Thusness: (nods).
Me: Usually landed property have this
problem.
Thusness: Now Singapore, because the land
is very expensive, so the developer make use of every single inch of land. So
the road is also very narrow. Because it is very expensive you cannot waste. Do
you want to take back some of your books?
Me: Ok.
Thusness: I’ll bring you to my house, take
back some of your books. Then I’ll send you back. How’s your father?
Me: Ok, still doing properties.
Thusness: Property is getting more
difficult.
Me: We found a semi-D at Kew drive, so
we’re staying there for two years.
Thusness: Who?
Me: We.
Thusness: But you’re not in Singapore what.
When will you be back?
Me: November. Mid-november.
Thusness: Finish your studies you know.
When do you finish your studies?
Me: I’m finishing my bachelor this year but
I’ll be doing my masters next year.
Thusness: (?) So fast?
Me: …
Thusness: Doing what, comp sci?
Me: Bachelors of IT and Masters of Comp
Sci, actually the same stuff.
Thusness: And at that place do you visit
any centers? Zen center?
Me: Yeah. I just find that place a good
place to meditate.
Thusness: Do you still go there?
Me: If I’m free, sometimes very busy.
Thusness: Somewhere near your school?
Me: I’ve to take half an hour bus ride. I
like how they organize their sittings, their environment etc. Its just nice.
Thusness: Met any new friends?
Me: Friends? Yah. There’s a lot of
Singaporeans and Asians as well.
Thusness: The problem with your translation
of your seven phases of insights, is that you cannot express the essence. Like
for example, that yi nian xing zhe, when you read, straightaway you feel very
happy. Because it is like a perfect match in its expression of all the
insights. Correct? But when you send me, because you are unable to express
that, so he might not read through also. You understand what I mean? Because
you are unable to express that insight in Chinese, so he might not even read through.
Me: He replied me “namo amituofuo”.
Thusness: You understand what I mean? So
when a person (?) for example when you talk about anatta insight you must
clearly your anatta insight. As short as possible. That’s all. In Chinese.
Correct? But he also wrote too much already. Until a certain stage, actually
your thoughts will become lesser and lesser. You won’t actually write you know,
you just want to experience only.
Me: He said in a recent post, that he
doesn’t have any wish to write or to teach or to liberate people. He said if
nobody writes me questions, he can just sit there for a million years. But I
think the reason why he write is because there’s so many people e-mailing him
so he just writes based on people’s questions.
Thusness: Then your li zhu lao shi, how?
Want you to teach?
Me: See how it goes. ….
Thusness: I think after your chen ming an,
I don’t know how… your Ren Cheng.
Me: Like who’s going to take over?
Thusness: Yeah.
Me: Not very sure.
Thusness: It’s actually very sad you know,
if Ren Cheng were to suddenly disappear. Now it is Chen Ming An and who?
There’s another nun right?
Me: Uh, yeah. But she’s not taking an
active role in teaching. Because last time she used to come to Singapore for
talks and then after chen ming an comes, she never come again. And her health
is also not very good. The nun Ven Jue Xing.
Thusness: 3pm… 5pm… almost already. When
you’re going back? August?
Me: No I’m going back on the 20th, ten days
time. My end of year holidays are much longer, from November to February, 3
months.
Thusness: Maybe another day then I return
you. You need to learn how to open up yourself. Means no one opening, but the
opening, your practice must go along with your experience and your view. Means
there is nothing that is opening, what you call the opening is just the opening
itself. So there will not be a background, there will not be an apprehender and
an apprehended or someone that is opening. It is just the manifestation of
Dharma – Maha. So you must learn how to open up and (that’s it ?) You’re still
unable to do it now because you have a lot of attachments. Like me, but I’m in
business. You understand? So your insights are there, but your self/ego karmic
propensities are still strong. So you must learn how to open up and (?) You get
what I mean or not? Not bringing one thing from this moment to the next moment.
No (?) thing from this moment to the other moment. So you must (?) yourself
with all your insights, your Maha, your total exertion now, (?) total body
opening, total body dropping/release, total body opening, your thought is like
this, your experience is like this, your view is also like this. Those three
levels must be reached. Your realization, your insight and your view.
Understand or not? Now in meditation the moment you sit, your must (?)
dropping, no attachments whatsoever, always train yourself this way.
Me: And do breathing meditation?
Thusness: Breathing is also good. One in
breathe, out breathe is just like the Heaven and Earth is breathing. The total
universe is just this breathe. Single breathe. No one is breathing. Just
this... breathe. Total exertion of this breathe, that is Dharmakaya, the
manifestation of Dharmakaya. Not clarity. Clarity is implied. It's just part of
it... (?) manifestation of Dharma. Understand? So must slowly, slowly, (?) into
this. So there is no arising, there is no abiding, there is no cessation. There
is no here. Here and there, arising, cessation and abiding, all are spoken
based on dualistic and inherent view. At this point you have seen that
fundamentally it is not like this. It is only due to upside down dream thinking
that it is so. No matter how you want to grasp, you cannot grasp. Graspability,
obtaining and losing is based on dualism and inherent, treating existence and (?).
In this, already there isn't. Even if you want to grasp, there is no way to do
that. Because ungraspable, mind is not graspable, needless to speak about the
arising of everything. This is a fact of things. It is the upside down dream
thinking that mistakens there to be something graspable. Arising and cessation
is also the same. Fundamentally there is no arising and cessation, it is the
ongoing reflection mistakens there to be arising and cessation, it is the
deluded appearance of consciousness. Consciousness’s deluded appearance.
Understand? You mistaken there to be something graspable, mistaking there to be
arising and cessation is also consciousness’s deluded appearance, due to its
limitations. Let’s pay first.
You live in Simei right?
Me: Yeah.
Thusness: I think I’ll be very busy until
next year June, I got a very important deal. Three listed companies, two merge
to become main board, then do another one and inject into the company, very
tiring. After this I will earn a lot of money then stop already, for a few
years. Relax. I think after this deal I really can relax (?) myself already.
So you must learn how to spend quality hours, lets say, morning… up to half an hour every time to (?) this. Understand? Otherwise… Now I will ask you a question. Why are there propensities?
So you must learn how to spend quality hours, lets say, morning… up to half an hour every time to (?) this. Understand? Otherwise… Now I will ask you a question. Why are there propensities?
Me: Because of the way consciousness works.
Thusness: Because of the way reality is. So
there must be a routine, understand? It is not that after insight, everything
is like that, self-view says oh, just this, then no more… so this is self-view.
There are such manifestations. So… you must always spend quality hours, (?)
understand what is a kind of anatta, emptiness, (?) your whole body becomes the
display of wisdom, you understand? Becomes a display of wisdom of emptiness,
which is Dharmakaya. Then you don’t have to meditate, it’s just this only.
Total exertion. It’s just the manifestation of Dharma. So you must go through
the phases of insights, don’t jump but slowly, slowly. Get what I mean?
Me: So where do you bring me now?
Thusness: I forgotten which book you know…
Send you back first. Then probably before you leave…
Me: Or nevermind, maybe another time also
can because I won’t be bringing much books to Australia.
Thusness: You must learn how to breath
until there is no… means now when you breathe you shouldn’t have that kind of
thing you know. You breathe, it’s just the breath – there is no self that is
breathing. Just like what he expressed, the universe is just this breath
breathing. Do you have this sensation now when you breath? You must take this
as your practice. It is ok to have a skilful way of… that is to say you must
have a way to get you into it you know. Don’t have to say, oh, I’m always like
this every moment, this one will actually retrogress instead of progressing.
Lets say you say there is no need to do
this there is no need to do that… rather than people say, for example, chanting
also can… or a dharma door of breathing. It is a dharma door of skilful means
you get what I mean?
Simei yes?
Me: Yeah.
Thusness: (?) At my place what books do you
have any books?
Me: Actually I also forgotten, I think it
is not necessary, because there are some books in Australia that I still have
not read and I do not have much time to read.
Thusness: Actually for books it is very
difficult to find good books already. I think the website itself has written
better than many books. But of course that is from 2012
Me: yeah 2012 Feb 1, that is when he
realized
Thusness: then you said there is … what you
sent me, a lot of people realized anatta.
Me: Oh no no I think I made a mistake. Have
you seen?
Thusness: No actually. Don’t have much time
to read.
Me: But their Chinese are… hahaha
Thusness: This is a matter of practice. You
see for example the poem, every word is very simple, not like those people
write that kind of poems, I also have to check the dictionary… now I don’t even
know to check the dictionary some of the words I don’t even know how to read.
Correct? It is how you put them… lets say a five letter word. How do you
express clarity in something? Understand?
But I read his website, that time you sent me a few articles, it’s really very good. But sometimes I wonder how come it can coincide so well… huh? Funny. Just like I wrote it, like that, in Chinese. It’s like match so well. Funny. Even the one breath in and out breath is just like the Maha suchness.
But I read his website, that time you sent me a few articles, it’s really very good. But sometimes I wonder how come it can coincide so well… huh? Funny. Just like I wrote it, like that, in Chinese. It’s like match so well. Funny. Even the one breath in and out breath is just like the Maha suchness.
Me: I sent truthz and he said you sure it’s
genuine or not? Cos China is best at counterfeiting, and he joked that maybe
before 2012 he read Eckhart Tolle and after 2012 he read your website. I told
him it’s definitely genuine.
Thusness: Genuine… But his one is like
perfect like that, right? All the phases of insights in clarity are there you
know. Even the expression is all... But I doubt anyone can express that way if
he has no clarity and no experience. It is very difficult. Even the manifold of
presence, he expresses it as the “thousand faces of Buddha”. Correct? You go
there and I reach your house, you got all the (?)
Me: Oh the pages? No haven’t, I’m still compiling,
only halfway… 300 pages is just
Thusness: Those few articles, I read and
read and said why even the Maha breath is also the same? Exactly you know.
That’s why I like it so much and the anatta insight, the Maha and then the
manifold presence. Then even the… he said the liao liao ling zhi
(spirit/intelligent awareness) is no different than walking standing sitting
and lying down, it is just an appearance. Then I said – it is no different from
this arising sound, this breath, this passing sight, scent. His expression is
like… very kind of, unique kind of… synchronicity you know? Then his expression
is the same. Insight can be understood… but his expression….
Me: Hahaha.
Thusness: So narrow that my car got
scratched… the carpark. Now it is ok you know, because a lot of people go work.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Me: Taking video for my parents.
Thusness: Don’t go and take photo and put
on the facebook you know, later people come running to my house, you get what I
mean or not? I’m only afraid of this, later people come to my house and knock
on my door, “Is Thusness there”?
Me: Hahaha… where you live?
Thusness: redacted
Me: So you meditate here? (altar and meditation seat)
Thusness: This one is my father’s. I don’t know where I put my books you know… inside still have more. There, the three books that you said right?
Me: Oh, uh, did I pass you these?
Thusness: No, this is mine, the three.
Me: Oh I think no need for now, you read?
Thusness: No, I got no time to read. I
don’t know where …
Me: Maybe next time then see.
Thusness: I have no time to go and see
through where are your books.
Me: Let me see for a while (Samyutta
Nikaya)
Thusness: You can take because I don’t read
like what you read.
Me: But I don’t have time now to read also,
I won’t bring to Australia also.
Thusness: You want to bring to your house?
Me: Maybe I’ll take this and keep, then
Thusness: The other two you have?
Me: Yeah this two I have.
Thusness: Yah then you take this.
Me: A lot of Taoist books also.
Thusness: Yeah. I have a few hundred to a thousands of these books I have thrown away already. (?) on business, science (?)
Thusness: Yeah. I have a few hundred to a thousands of these books I have thrown away already. (?) on business, science (?)
I want to (?) the whole thing first. (?)
Now cannot do, will catch. They can also catch you (?) you cannot shelter and
close, roof terrace cannot be enclosed. This is a development charge. When you
enclose you have to pay. All these you cannot enclose. If you enclose then they
will count you know, these becomes part of your square feet and you have to
pay. Now one square feet costs how much do you know?
Me: Your interior design is very nice, you asked a designer?
Me: Your interior design is very nice, you asked a designer?
Thusness: Yes. (?) So now that you come
back, (?) where did you go? Eat and play?
Me: Yeah. Also not much, just rest mostly.
The moment I come back there was the haze and I was locked in my room.
Thusness: Now your timing… you must have
enough rest for clarity and for (?). (?) Like the one thought traveller is also
expressing the one thought realization. But he wrote in 2011?
Me: 2010. That’s why I’m surprised how come
he can write that in 2010.
Thusness: (?) You only visit that zen
center, do you visit (?)
Me: No, there is the Empty Mirror that
wanted to meet me, he lives in Brisbane, but I haven’t met him.
Thusness: There is the… John Ahn?
Me: Oh, he’s in New York.
Thusness: He’s in New York? Then he visited
all those people…
Me: Oh he lives in New York.
Thusness: And Elena as well?
Me: Yes that’s why they have a
Thusness: Gathering
Me: Yes. (?)
Thusness: He is studying?
Me: He dropped out his philosophy in New
York university then he went to the Indian ashram
Thusness: He dropped out?
Me: He dropped out of the course then he
went for the retreat in India then after that he came to Singapore for a short
holiday and that’s when he wanted to find you. Then he’s back in the U.S.
Thusness: He’s a Korean?
Me: Not sure if he’s born in Korea but he’s
living in U.S. (?)
Thusness: He should be quite rich,
otherwise how can he be like this? Study halfway then dropout and go to India.
P___r, how do you pronounce?
Me: …
Thusness: He used to take LSD and had some
LSD mystical experiences (?) some side-effects.
Me: Not only LSD, all kinds of drugs, he
told many many stories, some are more powerful than LSD.
Thusness: Therefore he said he has some
side-effects. Like for example A___t H___ as well?
Me: Yes he went to psychedelics then went
into Buddhism, a lot of westerners are like that. In western countries these
drugs are very common. In Australia as well some of my friends were trying it
but I didn’t.
Thusness: No need to try them. Those two
very thick books you have already finished reading?
Me: Oh those sutra books? Yes sutra books
I’ve finished reading. Plus another one.
Thusness: So good?
Me: This Majjhima Nikaya I’ve finished
reading (?) But this (Samyutta Nikaya) is even bigger. At that time in NS after
the BMT, sometimes there are periods of just sleeping in the bunk so I just
spent time reading the suttas.
Thusness: (calls redacted) Now you must
learn how to develop certain habits because (?) within these two years you have
to develop these habits otherwise when you (enter into society?) you’ll not
have such opportunities. You get what I mean? Your progress (?) your habit must
arise first.
Me: What habit? Meditation?
Thusness: Meditation is also good, a (skilful
means?) (?) What time do you sleep? Why I always see you online at 3 and 4am?
Me: Very late, haha
Thusness: 4 or 5?
Me: Sometimes later, haha
Thusness: In Australia?
Me: I sleep earlier. But depends. Sometimes
2 to 3
Thusness: What time you wake?
Me: Depends. Sometimes 9 or earlier
Thusness: Turn left from here? Sims avenue.
You see, your first translation should write in this way. You should say, due
to the imbalancing, due to our attachment to the clarity, then our energy is
disrupted. There is am imbalance of energy due to attachment. That is the first
time we experience the radiant clarity. You understand? Not like what you said,
(?) then suddenly (?) Because our energy is being disrupted you understand?
This is very different from understanding emptiness. Emptiness is (?) opening,
relaxing, the manifestation of Dharma when illusorily ceases, because
ungraspable.
Me: Imbalance..?
Thusness: Because your radiant clarity, due
to your attachment to the radiant clarity, you understand?
Me: That is Mangala Vihara, it has what I
told you the diplomas, bachelors and masters in Buddhist studies.
Thusness: So you’re going to study?
Me: I don’t know. In future maybe.
Thusness: _____ is very strange huh, he
studied with ChNNR yet he doesn’t have anatta insight. He understood so much
and furthermore have a few good gurus…
Me: _____________________________________________
Thusness: Actually that one thought
traveller, if he writes a book it will be very good, after his (?) insight, his
expressions (?) he is able to express. He will have to go through a period of
(?)
Me: It is very difficult to find these Chinese articles, so I am compiling them for my mom.
Me: It is very difficult to find these Chinese articles, so I am compiling them for my mom.
Thusness: Your mom? Can your mom understand this?
Me: She should be able to understand some.
Because my mom told me she could understand me better than she could understand
teacher chen, after reading my articles she could understand teacher chen
better.
Thusness: Teacher chen stuff, __________________ Therefore when he writes, it is a form of
feeling-realization, it is based on his experience, ______________________ Unlike this one thought traveler, his expression is very clear.
Like he is able to express, one in breathe, one out breathe, four great
illusory aggregations (elements), the element of wind, the four great illusory
aggregations (elements) is the manifestation of Dharma, you get what I mean or
not? So he’s able to link these to the experience of anatta. So last time what
I wanted you to understand, I keep on telling you, you have the experience in
seeing there’s just the seen, correct? In hearing there’s just sound. But you
must understand them as D.O. Then your view must be clear, then you can
directly enter into anatta.
Me: So you have to think about D.O.?
Thusness: You have to understand the view, there’s nothing wrong with
thinking. So people are too worried about what? They are manifestation of one
body. Your view, your insight, your experience… all these are coming together
as suchness. You understand? So when you say, ok, for example in the seen just
the seen or in hearing just sound. When you have this experience, you must be
able to be together with D.O. and see the D.O. So from the beginning I asked
you whether you are able to link to D.O. to become to the right understanding
and right view? You see, that one thought traveler when writing is able to do
that. When you wrote in the beginning you were still unable to do that. You’ll
go through your (?) You based on the experience (?) but you’re unable to based
on general D.O. understand it and penetrate it thoroughly and later enter into
the empty nature, person and phenomena have no self, no self-nature, empty.
Understand or not? So this is a very good site.
Me: So his site is not just anatta like Dharma Overground, which is focused on anatta, but his is also about the emptiness view.
Me: So his site is not just anatta like Dharma Overground, which is focused on anatta, but his is also about the emptiness view.
Thusness: So he is able to understand very thoroughly, in one in breathe
and out breathe, how to apply anatta, how to apply emptiness how to apply the
insight the experience of maha suchness. He is able to express it. You
understand what I mean right? That is to say, he has an article that focuses on
writing about anatta, that is the apprehender and apprehended is non existing,
when hearing just found, when you search for the hearer you cannot find it.
When you see there is just scenery, so the seer is just consciousness’s karmic
momentum/motion when you got lost, actually when you see there’s just the
scenery, scenery’s arising is actually dependently originated and empty. Clear
and vivid yet is empty in nature, so ungraspable. You understand what I mean or
not? So when you experience anatta, you still can fall into substantialism
non-dualism. So now you (?) so it’s total exertion. Ungraspable. So go and read
through all my articles, what I wrote to you. Everything is like that (?) the
view, there is nothing to hold, you cannot hold. So this is the truth of
everything, even if you want to hold there is no way to hold, because (?) it is
just a dependently originated and nature is empty. Truth is like this. But
upside down thinking is to be mistaken that there is something graspable, there
is a person, a self, an arising and cessation, this is upside down dream
thinking. Upside down.
You didn’t ask the (?) qian yun?
You didn’t ask the (?) qian yun?
Me: Oh, I didn’t ask her, I just posted something but she didn’t reply.
But I did email the one thought traveler.
Thusness: I see. In facebook the article (?) the bhumi stages?
Me: Oh that is written by one thought traveler. I found an article in
2011 in a forum that was criticizing the one thought traveler, saying that one
thought traveler is always talking about maintaining awareness etc, if things
were so simple why would Buddha teach so many things? And he said the one
thought traveler was talking about God etc, which is non-Buddhist.
Thusness: So it is only recently that his anatta insight (arisen). You
see, this is the karmic strength of a person. He sees it as a part of practice.
He cannot try to cover up.
Me: Cover up?
Thusness: The realization of I AM. Because he presents himself as a
teacher, it is difficult to do that. Because he started with I AM, then you
tell your student that it is …. Yes? He was still in the midst of groping/trying
to find (mo suo). So he said there is no state/stage to attain, that is also
wrong. He doesn’t know what is convention. You must know what is convention.
Although the insights are there, you must know what is convention. So when you
tell someone about I AMness, it is these two years that he experience anatta
and emptiness, very clear, so when he told others all these it (?)
Me: He has some articles about the Avalokitesvara’s Dharma Door. That is
actually talking about the seven phases, he went to contemplate on the unmoving
appearance that is the I AM then from the I AM enter into the awareness
pervading all six senses then break the subject-object, then enter into the
emptiness door, then enter into complete awakening door.
Thusness: So the first thing when you want to learn you have to humble
yourself.
Me: Sorry forgot to tell you you should have entered from there.
Thusness: We’ll make a U-turn. So this is also a practice, you
understand? Very interesting huh, how come he can maintain such a short period,
one year.
Me: As in within one year he’s so clear about all these?
Thusness: And his expressions are so clear. So first break subject and
object, then he said look into emptiness
Me: Yes. Emptiness door. Then at last complete-awakening/awareness.
Thusness: Spontaneous perfection?
Me: Yeah then he said there is no more concepts of practice, no
practice, and no more concepts actually. It’s based on the Shurangama Sutra,
then very funny, I posted your seven stages, then someone just quoted that
Shurangama Sutra from the Sutra itself. Also the same part on the Guan Yin
stages. But last time I didn’t know it is similar.
Thusness: You mean in English or Chinese?
Me: Chinese.
Thusness: With your translation?
Me: Yeah.
Thusness: (grins)
Me: Where are you going? To work?
Me: Where are you going? To work?
Thusness: (?) I’m going to M hotel at CPF building area. If your
expression is there, then it’s good, you can discuss with them. Currently, are
you left with just manifestation or not?
Me: Yah can say so.
Thusness: Must learn to open up.
Me: I notice I still don’t have much calmness.
Thusness: So slowly practice. You must let your emptiness wisdom enter
into the entire body-mind. That is, your entire body is the display of
emptiness wisdom.
Me: You and your father are living in the same house?
Me: You and your father are living in the same house?
Thusness: My father, my sis, altogether. (sis in house besides)
Me: Then you said you wanted to go to Thailand with your father for
retreat?
Thusness: No, the master is dead already.
Me: But I thought you said you wanted to go there?
Thusness: He’s dead already. There’s a lot of political issues.
Me: Dead is recently or what?
Thusness: I think one year. One-two year ago. Still want to work (?) he
wanted to work when his whole body is already unable to work.
Me: But you said you wanted to go there, he hasn’t died yet?
Thusness: He hasn’t died yet, he wanted to build a temple and have a
place. That is my purpose that time.
Me: I think you just drop me here. Thanks!
Thusness: See you. Take care!
Me: See you.