{"id":8080,"date":"2010-11-29T17:40:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T09:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8080"},"modified":"2010-11-29T23:22:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:22:51","slug":"beyond-pure-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/11\/beyond-pure-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond ‘Pure’ Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary world:<\/p>\n

Prepare to be reborn.
\nAnd remember:
\nNothing is permanent.
\nNot even death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like the stuff of the Heart Sutra,
\nwhich goes a step further and says that
\nthere is no birth and death in the first place,
\nprecisely because nothing is permanent –
\nto be born of and to die of,
\nthat is born, that dies.<\/p>\n

What is an imaginarium?\u00a0In the movie, it is a doorway to the paradise in our mind, that we dream of.\u00a0The\u00a0best place beyond our imagination is Pure Land.\u00a0We lack imagination of this best place possible due to our perception limited by deluded craving.\u00a0Our best is not good enough, while the\u00a0Buddha’s vision of it is really the best. Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land has to be the best because Dharmakara Bodhisattva, who shaped Pure Land with his vows was manifested from the Dharmakaya, the universal body of all Buddhas – that supreme collective of perfect compassion and wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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