Buddhist Scholars 1979

Can Truth Be Perceived Through Time?

All the things that thought has put together literature, poetry, painting, illusions, gods, symbols, all that is reality for us. But nature is not created by thought.

Can the mind, the network of all the senses apprehend, see, observe truth?

Psychological time is the invention of thought which we use as a means of achieving enlightenment. Is such time an illusion? Is truth measurable by words? Truth is timeless, thought is of time, the two cannot run together.

Without love, without compassion truth cannot be. I cannot go to truth, I cannot see truth. Truth can only exist, only be when the self is not.

What Is It That Dies?

When the body dies, the desires, the anxieties, the tragedies and the misery go on. They go on contributing to the vast common stream in which mankind lives. Each of us is representative of the whole of that stream.

By inquiring into the whole nature of suffering can X end it and be out of the stream? The free enquiry into suffering is insight. As long as I accept any authority, Buddhist or otherwise can there be insight?

For the man who is no longer a manifestation of the stream intelligence, love and compassion are operating.

Q: How do you discriminate between mindfulness, awareness and attention?