1) seek to indicate/express an
experience,
2) The Pure Land, which is NOW, is depicted as being full of infinite golden lotus flowers.
@Willi Said
1) what experience?
the one each of us call existance?
2) infinite as in all existence, or in a continuation way?
willi, I'm not at my best when answering specific questions (quite when I AM at my best is another matter......
) I prefer picking up the words of others and drifting off at a tangent, happily waffling with no fear of refutation....perhaps because nobody - least of all myself - knows what I'm talking about.
But, "experience" as in experience within the present moment. Maybe when we get "lost" playing a musical instrument, maybe being with those we love. Not "lost" in daydreams, anticipations and epitaphs, not lost in a stream of consciousness, a chain of repetitive thoughts born of habit and conditioning. But lost to "self" in another. Thats as close as I can get, not being enlightened, though I must say that really there can only be enlightened
activity/experience rather than enlightened people, and as a Buddhist sage once said....."An ordinary human being is a Buddha, Illusion IS salvation. One foolish thought and we are stupid, ordinary. The next awakened thought and we are the Awakened One, the Buddha."
(What was that I said before about not knowing what I'm talking about......
)
And, "infinite", sorry, wrong word. I've spoken of this symbolism a few times and normally would just say "billions" rather than infinite. Just meaning each unique individual centre, each person, each themselves beyond definition. Whether "infinite" or not I wouldn't know.