Clearing the Misconceptions By: Yun Xing (Lin Ai Wei)

Website Editor’s Note: I visited the website that was given as the author’s URI: www.freewebs.com/jingxinyuan/ You may like to take a look too. According to the web-site “Jing Xin Yuan is a school of Buddhist cultivation. We teach methods which are resonant with the minds of our students. Jing Xin Yuan is unique in that we do not take one place as our main center, but see the Earth and Universe as our cultivation ground. We hold a variety of expedients for cultivation and welcome all forms of religions to come and take part in making the world a more peaceful and compassionate realm to be in. Jing Xin Yuan is a home within the home of all living beings.

A place where all can come and realize that all places are no places, and no places are all places. That neither here nor there are either here or there. All are equal at Jing Xin Yuan, and all are held in proper respect, with Patience, Compassion and Wisdom as our guideline for morality”.

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In this discussion we will look at the expedient of religion in the Buddhist school of cultivation. In doing so, we must keep in mind that each person has their own idea of what makes a practice a religion. What we will hold in mind as the basis of this discussion is that most of the world sees Bowing, Chanting, Praying, a leader of some sort guiding “followers” along the means of practice, a place of practice, and actions of practice to all be pieces which make up a religion.

Let’s look at the expedient of religion in Buddhist cultivation. Buddhism is only named Buddhism as a focal point of reference to practices which cause a living being to reveal the Complete and True mind. To attain AnutturaSamyaksambhodi. Attain is only a word used to point out what was not present in mind before revealing the true nature. One does not attain. One only lessens what is in the mind, thus revealing the true nature.

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