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Walking through the gateless gate

Today someone asked me if it was possible to reach enlightenment through contemplating emptiness. My answer was no, contemplating emptiness cannot lead you to enlightenment. In fact, no-method can lead you to enlightenment. By using a practice method you can settle the mind and be at ease without afflictions. Any method can settle the mind in the present moment, but with Silent Illumination [just sitting] you can be relieved of even the present moment.

Just take this attitude: don't worry about the past or the future, and let go of the present too. Just stay in awareness. Chan is called the “gateless gate” because it has no door to enlightenment. The methods fool you into thinking, “Aha, there's a door. Let's find the key.” People will look for the key, the right method that will get them enlightened. They search for the door to enlightenment, and not finding it, they may give up. In fact there is no door. But according to each person's practice and karmic disposition or virtuous roots, suddenly he or she may gain entry and become enlightened. In the process of searching, one just walks through the gateless gate.

If there really is a method that will lead to enlightenment, then Ananda, one of the Buddha's most beloved disciples, would have been enlightened during the Buddha's lifetime. Why did Ananda not receive a key to enlightenment from the Buddha? In fact, the Buddha did give Ananda a key, but he did not realize it. After the Buddha entered parinirvana, Ananda sought help from Mahakashyapa, the Buddha's Dharma heir, who spurned Ananda's request. When Ananda finally realized that there was nothing outside himself that could lead him to enlightenment, he dropped all seeking and became enlightened.

The Method of No-Method by Master Sheng Yen

I'm 55, Frenchie, having right now a closer look at reddit communities.
I got myself a PhD in astrophysics without any effort, was wired as scientist, autistic like, social phobic, hypersensitive, depressive as hell. I instantly put in all my mental ressource in studying Tibetan Buddhism when i first read a Matthieu Ricard's book when i was 30.
Done that because I recognize the scientific approach I could take on that one, Buddha himself said to not believe his words but study, contemplate, experiment for one self, that's the only way the essence of Buddhism could penetrate my mind, blind faith is totally stranger to me.
Until now I just can't find any flaw, and I'm still a bit depressive because I haven't found a way yet to convince my scientific fellow that science of matter is nice (physics) to bring external confort (or atomic bomb), but science of the mind is even better as it impacts directly your quality of life and those around you.

In fact physicist don't even know yet about the mental continuum of energy, they study only the material continuum of energy and they think a soap of quarks can start to think and feel all by itself, sounds like magical thinking to me now.

If only Einstein were alive, he would certainly have an opened enough mind to start studying seriously Tibetan Buddhism philosophie and theory, and spread that good news around the world.

I'm 55, Frenchie, having right now a closer look at reddit communities.
I got myself a PhD in astrophysics without any effort, was wired as scientist, autistic like, social phobic, hypersensitive, depressive as hell. I instantly put in all my mental ressource in studying Tibetan Buddhism when i first read a Matthieu Ricard's book when i was 30.
Done that because I recognize the scientific approach I could take on that one, Buddha himself said to not believe his words but study, contemplate, experiment for one self, that's the only way the essence of Buddhism could penetrate my mind, blind faith is totally stranger to me.
Until now I just can't find any flaw, and I'm still a bit depressive because I haven't found a way yet to convince my scientific fellow that science of matter is nice (physics) to bring external confort (or atomic bomb), but science of the mind is even better as it impacts directly your quality of life and those around you.

In fact physicist don't even know yet about the mental continuum of energy, they study only the material continuum of energy and they think a soap of quarks can start to think and feel all by itself, sounds like magical thinking to me now.

If only Einstein were alive, he would certainly have an opened enough mind to start studying seriously Tibetan Buddhism philosophie and theory, and spread that good news around the world.

Go Ren, GOOO!

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