Theos-Talk Archives (November 2001 Message tt00188)

He ate a hemp seed every day.

Cheers

Nos



|-----Original Message-----
|From: Steve Stubbs [mailto:stevestubbs@yahoo.com] 
|Sent: Monday, 12 November 2001 11:24 PM
|To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
|Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: To Brigitte
|
|
|Leon:
|Didn't the
|> Buddha say that
|> enlightenment can be obtained in seven Lives, years,
|> months, weeks, days, 
|> hours, minutes, or seven instants?
|
|The Buddha is said traditionally to have spent seven
|years in his quest for enlightenment, and finally to
|have resolved to sit beneath the Bodhi tree and not
|rise until he attained it. He neither atem drank, no
|slept. One morning he saw the morning star and his
|mind opene up. It was the seventh day. Zen students
|do a seven day retreat called a Rohatsu in
|commemoration of this event.
|
|As for seven instats. the instant in which one's mind
|opens up is the instant in which one's min opens up. 
|It can happen at any time but tends to come about
|after some preparation.
|
|Steve
|
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