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No enemies

I am experimenting with a blog...

"No Enemies" -- upekṣā
http://dharmafool.com/2012/10/21/no-enemies/
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  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    A number of years ago, the Associated Press ran a brief story out of Russia. It seems that a man had created quite a following by touting the basic "emptiness" of all things. So convinced did he become that this emptiness was real that he announced one day he would stand on the railroad tracks as an 'empty' freight train approached.

    The Associated Press did not say what funeral arrangements had been planned in the wake of this much-believed experiment.
    vinlyn
  • cazcaz Veteran United Kingdom Veteran
    genkaku said:

    A number of years ago, the Associated Press ran a brief story out of Russia. It seems that a man had created quite a following by touting the basic "emptiness" of all things. So convinced did he become that this emptiness was real that he announced one day he would stand on the railroad tracks as an 'empty' freight train approached.

    The Associated Press did not say what funeral arrangements had been planned in the wake of this much-believed experiment.

    And thus he fell to the extreme of non existence and neglected the conventional function of Phenomena.
  • howhow Veteran Veteran

    (IMO) I think being aware is simply seeing existence as it is without blinding ourselves with what we like or don't like about it. To see where to place the next appropriate step without tripping over pessimism or idealism.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    edited October 2012
    @genkaku, Maybe he was enlightened. ;)
  • genkaku said:

    A number of years ago, the Associated Press ran a brief story out of Russia. It seems that a man had created quite a following by touting the basic "emptiness" of all things. So convinced did he become that this emptiness was real that he announced one day he would stand on the railroad tracks as an 'empty' freight train approached.

    The Associated Press did not say what funeral arrangements had been planned in the wake of this much-believed experiment.

    So did he really exist or not? Is the story real? Is there a real Russia even or was it the USSR then?
  • His death was empty, but his coffin was not.
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    So did he really exist or not?
    @pegembara -- I suppose you could stand on the railroad tracks and find out.
  • genkaku said:

    So did he really exist or not?
    @pegembara -- I suppose you could stand on the railroad tracks and find out.

    How does that confirm that this person truly exist? Isn't he just a story in the news? Did you see or hear him?

    Seeing, hearing and feeling a train coming directly at you isn't remotely the same thing.
    Emptiness is not "empty" (nothing)
    :)
  • DavidDavid A human residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Neutral First Nations Veteran
    If emptiness meant the same thing as nothingness then Buddha would have said that form was precisely nothing and/or perhaps just let himself melt into that tree.
  • Emptiness means that anger isn't you. Rather it is just an empty feeling and word perhaps.
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