\u201cYou\u201d and \u201cI\u201d Will Never See the Buddha<\/h1>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In Mahayana Buddhism there are many Buddhas portrayed who depict certain special qualities and characteristics. Vairocana is perceived by all sentient beings in accordance with their developed capacity to properly discern Reality. \u00a0But Reality, when seen with a tainted perception, one lacking in the understanding of selflessness (absence of the ego-notion) then the Buddha cannot be seen or known. \u00a0 When the superimposed notions of \u201cyou\u201d and \u201cI\u201d disappear, then the Buddha appears.<\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The ego cannot be done away with; it cannot be gotten rid of. \u00a0The ego cannot be destroyed, annihilated, or dissolved because the ego does not exist as an objective entity. The ego is nothing more than a conceptual notion, just a notion, a mistaken belief. \u00a0The notion is a real notion and can be gotten rid of, dissolved away, because a notion is a temporary conceptual structure, always modifying, always changing. It can be de-structured. \u00a0 A real ego cannot be overcome because there is no such thing as a real ego. An ego-notion can be overcome because it is a temporary, fleeting mental structure. \u00a0This ego-notion is the tainted perspectival filter through which we habitually perceive our gross and subtle worlds. \u00a0 Continually looking through this filter we cannot see things as they actually are, but when the subject ceases its identification with one of its objects then the filter is absent and apperception of reality happens. \u00a0Then, obviously, the Buddha appears as always having been there.<\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/a> <\/a> \u00a0 <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou\u201d and \u201cI\u201d Will Never See the Buddha \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In Mahayana Buddhism there are many Buddhas portrayed who depict certain special qualities and characteristics. Vairocana is perceived by all sentient beings in accordance with their developed capacity to properly discern Reality. \u00a0But Reality, when seen with a tainted perception, one lacking in the understanding … Continue reading \u201cYou\u201d and \u201cI\u201d Will Never See the Buddha<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764,"parent":0,"menu_order":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-762","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/762\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnostiko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}