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how do you edit comments/discussions on here. ( I was being a but clumsy earlier and hit send by accident and then my windows had to update then and there too! :banghead: ) Sorry I tried to edit this before and it doesnt really work - I wanted to…
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But beyond that, nobody is going to kidnap and brainwash you in any Buddhist group. Anyone with access to the internet should have read enough basic Buddhist teaching to know when something unusual is being taught. In my experience always …
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This is a brilliant film - I love it
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@Dakini I think since leaving that group I am going to restudy Buddhism alone I think the group had a very different practice to others. They were clearly not liberal and I'm a total liberalist. Its like there was a extreme closeness to Hinduism an…
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I just wanted to say thanks for all the replies. I had never used the internet to gain all the knowledge on Buddhism that I had it was all primarily from the one meditation/Buddhism group that I joined. I was under the impression from the teacher …
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thanks it does, I am not limiting how much of something I allow myself to be influenced by. If that makes sense I was following a type of Buddhism that gave me one set of rules too and it just make me move into a another round of questions.
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@aMatt. I have this huge regret at having joined that class as I never saw it as being a place to cloud my mind in a odd way. In a sense I started from a position of wanting to gain a holistic approach to stress management and knowing that had I had…
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@Dakini, I was learning meditation from a Theravadin teacher and once I got good skills implemented he added the concept of emptiness and kept mentioning attachment as a bad thing. I kind of thought well yes im improving as a person but I dont think…
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@Lady_Alison, sorry maybe I should have pm'd you at the start.
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@Lady_Alison. thats exactly how I felt. But how have you merged Islam and Christianity? Im intrigued...very intrigued! I agree that this is my choice and I am getting a similar reaction to you - i got the 'oh now your a hippy!' To be honest it was …
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Agree about getting back to basics. I joined this forum in October and havent really got round to going through the whole boards as I did spend a lot of time with the sangha. Its only till recently that when i ask any question the answers are just b…
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Hi Dakini, I know I felt a bit silly when i posted it and then saw a similar one a few other discussions below - sorry. I think the issue i have with the teacher is that she sees us as Monks in training sort of and im there trying to master my me…
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Man, oh man. The cynicism meter is off the scale again! If we "just forget about" everyone we have any kind of disagreement with, it will be a pretty lonely world. I agree, similarly i think emptiness at times has lead me to be a little cold heart…
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the concept of a jinx was meant to be more as an evil spirit, maybe I should have questioned them there instead of now wondering what exactly was meant. I did say her verse reminded me of my grandparents testing the kids on the prayers when I was a …
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well said federica - there has to be a balance used when helping people to be compassionate almost like a scale. Sometimes helping people too much can lead them too depend on you too much.
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Thanks for the replies - it made it clear that I was in a group of advanced level Buddhists and also that I may need get to basics and stop attending all these talks.
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Addition - To enhance my state of confusion another person at the lunch said how she was wrong and was bringing evils spirits towards her and possibly a jinx at which stage i just went quiet as Im not that clued up with all the traditions of buddhis…
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In what context does this hell exist? Out of sheer curiousity do you know what group of buddhism they follow?
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@mountain Sadly i have. There is a lot of things I have heard in Buddha talks by so called experts that make me surprised.
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It could be complete coincidence I thought there was no Hell or heaven within buddhism!?!? Its coincidence - its something that is not in our hands to control. IMHO My Uncle died of a stroke a few years ago and the stress of watching someone tough…
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I think its called Ram Das and a friend in the class mentioned something called kriah and I am now more unsure.
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I know the thing is he is really good at meditation techniques and I was hoping to learn more from him without the hinduism lessons too.
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LOL :D That is what my friend at the class said too but i didnt want to be disrespectful
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Well said taiyaki :D
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@Telly03 this is exactly why I never plan on telling my family. Its not a matter of me being ashamed of Buddhism or any of its values it mostly down to the concept of suffering. If I meditate and think: imagine if there was no suffering or heart ac…
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I may not be the best to say what method to use however when I told a work colleague it made me question whether I should even tell my family. In a passing comment to a work colleague I mentioned that I am studying Buddhism and it was via Meditation…
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That's exactly what I want to do. This all started after I visited a sangha in London and began talking to a young female monk and it just made me realise that yes I am a Buddhist in training but there is a whole set of values and goals I don't want…
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Well said cloud, what I ideally want to do and think I need to is stop follow a set tradition and finding something that feels ok.
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@genkaku I have been practising meditation for a while now and I find it totally transformed me in a huge way. My mind was not running at a hundread miles per hour and I am able to think clearly. Yes it took me a while to get into the flow (so to sp…
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I know I saw a discussion thread on here about someone having/following four religions I was like hmmm...i better be careful not to fall into that!
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Thanks for the reply Cloud and Jeffery - I think for my sake I need to take a step back and think about where I stand.