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Dominique Side's avatar

The difficulty I have with the line of reasoning in your post (and in Jim Palmer's) is that religion actually means relationship. It comes from the Latin meaning to connect or to relate. The word religion is coined because it is about relating to God. And in Buddhism it's a bit difficult to say we are trying to 'relate' with our buddha nature because that assumes the two are separate and different and a link needs to be made between the two, when the Buddhist understanding is that we ARE the buddha nature, it is our nature not anything separate.

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Aaron's avatar

Please forgive my ignorance, but doesn’t a “pure Buddha Nature [that] doesn’t change and remains available behind whatever shmuts has gotten in the way” contradict the teachings of emptiness and dependent arising?

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