Zen Awakening, Cessation, and Nibbana

This is an excerpt from a daylong Stephen offered on "Zen, Kensho, and Koans" - March 9, 2024
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"Trust in Awakening",
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"Demystifying Awakening",
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Seeing One's True Nature - the Falling Away of Body and Mind,
• Seeing One's True Natu...
Absence of Self After an Initial Awakening and the Steps that Follow,
• Absence of Self After ...
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[@cyberpunkworld]

Regarding the distinction between Heaven and Earth. As I said previously. When anybody's got any form of doubts, they should remember The Pure Land as a true fact, in whatever way, shape or form they imagine a true fact to be. The Pure Land is a true fact!

[@cyberpunkworld]

Yet, once Enlightenment comes in, one serves. And they continue to serve. That's the thing. It's not that they serve, whether they want it or not, they want to serve very much :))

[@cyberpunkworld]

The short answer is this, and it is true. Perhaps Tricky wants to see more, before he's giving you the gift. Don't worry too much. I probably read a book and half, maybe?? :))

[@cyberpunkworld]

Well, the first question to ask, immediately, after the previous statement was accepted is the following. Why are we here right now, and not in The Pure Land?? I am afraid I do not know the answer to this one... :))

[@cyberpunkworld]

No. That's the thing. A Koan maybe. "There's gifts in store for everyone that has respect." :)

[@cyberpunkworld]

Now you're referencing those loops, which in some of my musical pieces I do avoid. It's all over the media. We think, for example, of Nationalities in terms of rugby or cricket matches, we fail to see the Evil around us, and we fail to see how we're all in this. Whenever a new dungeon is discovered in Perth, someone in Poland maybe will say "we're better, this doesn't happen here." And they are wrong, of course. The rat kind is in the underground, infesting everything, we common mortals need visas and a whole lot of money to travel everywhere and contemplate the Evil.

[@cyberpunkworld]

In my understanding "no-self" means the subject is not one bit preoccupied about their own person. The self isn't there, therefore.