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The Buddha never said that plants are sentient but they are living organism scientifically. Plants do have consciousness.
Kirlian Photography Experiments
http://www.kirlian.org/kirlian2.htm
… Plant World. Consciousness, Emotions, and Drugs … Plant leaves, when gashed or damaged, show red areas and bubbles. … This is where ten percent or less of the leaf is cut away and a “ghost” image of the missing part shows up on film. …
If a lotus in the pure land can give birth to those who made it there, is not a plant sentient?
If Mara can have Buddha nature, why can’t a wave? If an evil being has buddha nature, If the wave is called on by nagakings, nagakings have Buddha nature too. The question is are they thinking with their Buddha nature or their five poisons noting that since they have not awaken to their Buddha nature, obviously it is thinking in terms of the five poisons.
Energies can be latent or active. The latent one gets pushed around. The active one moves around.
In the first place, are sentient beings supposed to be on earth? We are here becos we fell further from 光明天。The earthquakes and waves. Is nature in our way or are we in the way of nature? Earth is actually a galactic dump. Only sentient beings with the same karma will find ourselves housed together on this planet. The next step if we are not careful will be the spiritual incinerator.
Theist used to say the absence of god is the presence of evil. In the same way, not awakening our buddha nature OS is to be operating in our human nature OS. That’s where evil lives. ä½›é”一念间。
Some humans who look human dun think like humans. That’s the most perplexing bit. In the journey to the west, even a demon may behave better than a human and a human may actually behave like a demon.
Five poisons:
http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Five_poisons
1. If the Buddha didn’t say plants are sentient, you shouldn’t just plant this statement ‘Plants are sentient.’ without saying it is your personal point of view. Readers new to Buddhism might think that is the Buddha’s teaching. Please be careful with your words. Don’t be loose with them.
2. What plants have might resemble weak consciousness, but even if so, it does not qualify them to be sentient beings. This is probably why the Buddha never said they are sentient.
3. The lotuses in Pureland do not birth beings there. Beings’ consciousness ride the lotuses that arrive there, before blossoming. The lotuses there are not sentient beings. They are manifested from Amituofo’s compassion and merits. If the lotuses in our world cannot do the same, how are they sentient?
4. If a wave has Buddha-nature, where is it in the tsunami that killed 240,000? If ALL waves have Buddha-nature, which wave attained Buddhahood? If the tsunami is caused by naga kings, why didn’t the wave’s Buddha-nature resist? If waves canot resist from being pushed around, how can they ever attain Buddhahood?
5. The first humans are NOT from 光明天 because it doesn’t exist. They are from 光音天.
Since AI is governed by the engineers programming then all the engineer would have to do is program buddhist law as the AI’s law and there you have it. Robot buddha.
Also every thing is matter and matter is energy so living non living conscious or not sentient or non, animate or inanimate, we are all one and we are all buddha. Become the void
If the engineers are not Buddhas, how can they program ‘Buddhist laws’? The qualities of Buddhahood are beyond mind and matter. If so, how can they be quantified and downloaded? Not everything is matter. There is that which is mind too, and there is that beyond both. Why ‘become the void’? Realisation of perfect wisdom is to be not attached to nothingness or everythingness.
Good luck with that
More about the perfection of wisdom is shared in this course, of the Middle Path of freedom from attachment to nothing-ness and everything-ness:
http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2012/12/course-the-heart-of-the-heart-sutra-run-7/
(The 8th run will be in 2014)