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The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

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Diamond Sutra: “A bodhisattva whocreates the perception <strong>of</strong> a beingcannot be called a bodhisattva…..no one can be called a bodhisattvawho creates the perception <strong>of</strong> aself, a being, a life or a soul.”<strong>The</strong>refore there is No Bodhisattva,prior to the abstraction process.No perceptionsDiamond Sutra: “Without (Mu) beingattached to the perception <strong>of</strong> anobject.”All perceptions are abstractions<strong>of</strong> a separate perceiver and assuch are illusions.Once again we can look at severalimportant factors:Perceptions are referred toperceptions, but there is noperception nor a perceiver.Letting go <strong>of</strong> dharma is easy.Realize that no dharma also is aperceptual experience and is not.Finally the realization that theknower <strong>of</strong> the dharma-no dharma, as63

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