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good good good cloud and pattb, i agree.
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recognize that going downward is a problem(youve done that) What causes downward spirals?(youve asked that) By recognizing (with the help of mindful beings)the causes of downward spirals, You have to meditate and decide which causes are real, and wo…
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with all due respect, sir, i could use some good teachers, i'm operating on my own, so to speak, i already have several teachers at the temple, palzang, but finding a time when they're not busy and i'm up to driving, is rare, i meant enlighten…
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"i wouldn't want to retreat from buddhism(joke), its happened before,"
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looking into my mind is like you looking at yourself in the mirror, we are one.
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right jefferey, you spoke a formula, so to speak, remove the word injustice and insert the word suffering; we cannot put our finger on exactly what suffering is, it has so many shapes sizes and colors.............
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brilliant, very well written, true, your a better writer than eye! ironman, (prose) I was brought up to pray as a child, Dear God, help me to be just like jesus. now i'm sleeping in my temporary grave, cruxcified by mania, closer to SHE-GOD(TAO) t…
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suffering is only one form of injustice, communism is a form of injustice, capitalism is a form of injustice, socialism is a form of injustice but mostly for the rich, anarchy, sharia law, oligarchys etc etc all are forms of injustice. Even KARMA MA…
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obviously all three OP its a religion, a belief system, a philosophy, a way of life, even a political manifesto IMHO that dwarfs carl marx And it is a belief, i just visited the temple and asked a lay temple elder what was the most important thing…
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sarastra, the whole reason the buddha left the palace in the first place was his father wanted him to lead a war between his sakyan tribe and the local kashitrayan? tribe, the buddhist was a vehement pacifist and draft dodger who fled to canada(the …
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I want to make a big apology here, i made a big mistake denouncing a commonly used idea of suffering used on this forum, and not realizing that there is SUFFERING, the whole thing, a term that covers any kind of bad or marginally good thing that cau…
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Former monk john's new telling of the four noble truths;; 1 (insert type of)SUFFERING IS A BIG PROBLEM EXISTING TODAY 2 (insert type of)SUFFERING HAS NOTICEABLE CAUSES (if we really think about it) 3 IF WE ELIMINATE THE ACTUAL REAL CAUSES (OF A …
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seeker almost all of what you say is true, im just trying to say there's much more to buddhism than just the four noble truths and the teaching on suffering. while meditating on suffering is the way millions of buddhist come into believing, many peo…
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se mich, spot on, i agree, im just saying there are a lot of (maybe deluded) people today that don't think there suffering, have a good job and place to live, a spouse/and or children, and you tell them (many of them might be christian in the west) …
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sorry, no, enlightenment means not dreaming but being aware, right in the moment, clear thinking. an enlightened brain surgeon would be the best surgeon, an enlightened gardner would be the best gardener, an artist who reaches enlightenment could be…
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ps im not saying suffering is not a bad thing, and i'm not saying its not a good thing to get rid of, i'm just saying while it may have been the core of the buddha's message 2500 years ago, it may not be the same primary message of a buddha living …
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well seeker, i'm a little tired of hearing so much about suffering, its overated as the most horrible thing, i find myself suffering all the time, but it doesn't bother me at all, i simply state in my mind; i am(if i were normal) experiencing suffer…
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i with you cloud, but i think reality is more illusion than delusion, perceiving reality as real and thinking that's all there is, that's the delusion, so perceiving reality as real is a delusion, not an illusion. just quibling over a semantic issue…
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sabre, i don't feel what you say is really smack in the middle path the buddha taught; your so opposite one extreme; everything is concrete and real and just as we see it, and coming closer but not all the way to the other extreme(nihilism); nothing…
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pattb thats beautiful the buddha never said physical pain was not a form of suffering, in fact he clearly stated birth, sickness, death were the most obvious forms of suffering, suffering isn't 100% in your mind, mostly in your mind, maybe. you can…
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people like daniel, even mohammed, possibly jesus, and the buddha prophecied the future. daniel prophecied the persian gulf war spot on in the 12 or 13th chapter, hitler and ww11 as well, mohammed prophecied the earth would be covered in a haze like…
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all pray, and do anything else we possibly can like organize against nuclear power maybe, here in southern cali, have an earthquake kit food and water saved up, know where and how to turn off the gas and water, study earthquake preparadness. pray pr…
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well i stayed up for 24 hours yesterday typing on this forum much of the time and only got 8 hrs sleep in a 32 hr day, if i start sleeping less and less over the next few days, you will slowly see me making less and less sense, sounding disoriented …
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from what ive read, the money, time, and food it takes to preserve meat, if the whole world become vegetarian, we could have well over twice as much food to more than feed everyone for less costs than today, sure its no sin for a starving person to …
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"Eat meat, don't eat meat. Some people say eating meat disrespects the Buddha, others say vegetarianism is unnatural or unnecessary." cinorjer said is not creating suffering for sentient beings like animals unnatural or unnecessary??? from a scien…
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DD said"the Buddha taught there are four levels of enlightened beings & only two levels are free from anger" this is really exciting DD thats exactly what my revelation on enlightenment says there are four types of enlightenment, two contain a…
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i could say something similar about america and christians, and saudia arabia and muslims, lets not pick on the jews, especially the jewbu's(jewish buddhists)
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yiming you make me want to barf, in fact thats what you deserve to eat, anyone that hates vegetarianism is certainly not respecting the buddha!!
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my pharamacist once told me there actually are people who don't sleep at all, or one hour only, and the're usually workaholics working two or three jobs, maybe there angels?/?/ who knows. but believe me you can go 2 weeks without any sleep and still…
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I'm a fully "enlightened" couch or computer chair potato(Joke) and I sleep 8-16 hrs a day( no joke) but no i don't think all enlightened beings have little sleep in common, just some. come to think of it maybe I am like that, no sleeper, as without …
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i think the meditators that need virtually no sleep are meditating for hours on hours a day, 8 hrs meditation might equal 5 hours sleep, or something like that but 30 minutes meditation isn't going to replace sleep, has anyone heard of serious medit…
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i can't see how it could possibly hurt, though. its just like a priest prescribing multiple hail marys on the rosary or chanting om mani, its a form of meditation just like and probably more effective than focusing on the breath, it quietens the min…
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bad idea, if anyone is having this actually happen lack of sleep can and almost always will propel you into complete mania then into psychosis and the looney bin, especially if there are intoxicants involved, some people only sleep one hour that is…
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i can just picture you, body painted, wearing a grass skirt, a bone through your nose, cloud maybe you should make that your profile picture (joke)
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i think Jews, Christians, Muslims, even Buddhists have a lot to learn about tolerance for other religions, but the Jews of all people should know the importance of tolerance, it being religious intolerance and hatred that fueled the holocaust.
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guy,i don't think you're way off, sounds accurate, if indeed he did say nothing, i envision the buddha's ultimate plan for earth, this earth not the others is to step by step, ever so slowly or quick maybe transfer earth from a hell into an earth, …
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or the sutra vice versa a retelling of the tao, i think lao tzu was slightly before buddha and obviously before buddha teaching got to china
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i wholeheartadly agree, cloud
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only that hunger is one of many obvious examples of suffering, that if we all worked on it we could easily eliminate hunger, while working on eliminating the other causes of suffering as well (dream) in either case in this utopia you mention, cloud,…
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your sorta right cloud but try tell a village of starving people that their craving is the cause of their hunger, and to meditate it away. the obvious cause of their hunger through the human nature of craving is lack of food, the buddha would obviou…
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so my friend isn't the only one that thinks the disaster in japan is some kind of karmic payback for eating whales and dolhins, as to reciting the buddhas name, i think he means some thing like the thai; NAMO NAHMASTAY, PAHQUAOWATOE AHRAHATOE SAMMA …
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suffering exists=life sucks life sucking has causes, like hunger, war and poverty By eliminating the causes of life sucking, like ending war, feeding everyone, giving to the poor etc life ceases to suck
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my quote is from the lotus sutra DD i believe, i know NSA and all....
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maybe hes meditating for all the wrong reasons!
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i read the aquarian gospel i think you are refering to and it struck me as pure fiction, too good to believe, so lined up with what some want to believe, it clearly struck me as a book that had been written in english, likewise the book of mormon.
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i believe the buddha spoke just the opposite rather than melt away, at the highest enlightenment the buddha taught ( and i know this, or i was taught, no quotes) the soul or spirit multiplies, and can be in several or many places at once, that a bud…