<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Starting  Point  of  BUDDHISM /&nbsp;Enlightenment]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Well  well  well, this blog is coming to exactly the one year since its started.</p>
<p>So,  I should write something very fundamental. <span style="color:#888888;"><strong> <span style="color:#00ff00;">This is the final piece of the jig-saw.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p>Unlike any another religion,  the Buddhism doesn&#8217;t have a myth or the story of the creation.</p>
<p>Since,  long before the existence of the human being,  long long before the arrival of Buddha,</p>
<p>the  Dharma  exist from the beginning.   Nobody know why. ( Ask scientists. They don&#8217;t know neither.    😀  )</p>
<p>As<strong> Buddha had absolute faith and the respect to the Dharma, he refused to give even his </strong></p>
<p><strong>interpretation of it, since it is unknowable to the human being and made up a story is </strong></p>
<p><strong>nothing but a disrespect and a treachery to the Creator / Dharma.</strong></p>
<p>Therefore the Buddhism has to start from here <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>&#8220;to unconditionally accept the one&#8217;s existence ( as he </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>or she ) as it is,  and  to see own existence as a part of  the Dharma&#8221;.</strong></span></p>
<p>Therefore,  to give a person&#8217;s own  interpretation as a thought of the self, is nothing but an arrogant trespass.</p>
<p>Since, <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong> the self is not definable by the person but only by the Dharma.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>If anybody having an understanding,  that the Buddhism deny the self,  it is utterly wrong.</strong></span></p>
<p>A person here is the Noble creation of the Dharma,  hence, try to give own interpretation or definition of it, is</p>
<p>a transgression,  therefore such thought has to be denied. &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; (<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Denying the thought of self,  not </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>the awareness of the self  itself</strong></span>) &#8212;&#8212;- In metaphor, &#8221; Appear in person, not by a photograph &#8221;</p>
<p>(a Copy or  Made up Description is not Yourself / its your wishful or distorted imagination)</p>
<p>The person&#8217;s  Imaginary Self  is a delusion,  its got to be in flesh as it was created and  it is keep changing.</p>
<p>So that, <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong> to live as the True Yourself,  not as an imaginary fixed self,  is the key</strong></span>.</p>
<p>And this is the meaning of  &#8221; To live in MUSHIN &#8221; and  Just Do It,  Just Live.</p>
<p>So,  this is the starting point of the Buddhism,  and  its  goal.  ( Very simple and easy  isn&#8217;t it    😀  )</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- This is the reason,  why it is so simple and ubiquitous like as a dog sit,  but as difficult as</p>
<p>making the people puzzling  2500 years. ( People has been expecting to see glorious secret, Holy Grail   😀 )</p>
<p>As long as a person is puzzling, while expecting to find something over there,  it is not the Buddhism and</p>
<p>far away from the Enlightenment. <span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong> Enlightenment is within yourself</strong></span>&#8212;&#8212;- as where the Dharma is.</p>
<p>And <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>when the person abandoned such attempt and start to just live</strong></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong> </strong>&#8212;&#8212;-<strong> is the Enlightenment</strong></span>.</p>
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<p>But, to learn the way to accept and just do it, the person may need to practice repeating practice.</p>
<p>( I&#8217;ve fully explained its effect and the psychological mechanism in the past blog posts &#8212;&#8211;Please refer them )</p>
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