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Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
Well in the short term we have to rely on the results of hard won practice. Enlightened bodhi. Enlightened body of dharma and a few nomadic synthetic zeniths and other Mahayana heretics.
Anyway I am off to the pure-lands to look for temporary perfects to Grok.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Land_Buddhism
lobster
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Beautiful late Spring day...just off to protest outside our Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade buildings near the downtown ferry terminal... That's Rangitoto Island in the video. A dormant volcano, which if it decides to blow its top, it would take out most of Auckland city and the surrounding islands, including the one I live on....
Update...
Miscommunication about time and place....So I'm on the ferry home... There's always next week....
Shoshin1
Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
"Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
Thus have I heard:
Through realisation, as they have known throughout the millennia.
The Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path...
the nature of suffering and the way to its cessation.
We all stray from the path at times, and most of us come to see that we have.
Some realise it sooner than others, yet the light of awareness always finds its way through.
Shoshin1
Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
Maybe it'll be in a better state than Christianity?
Tavs
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Well Summer's just around the corner ...Bloody about time too.
I've spent the entire winter here, the first time in 3 years .
Shoshin1
Re: Meditation and mental health
Thanks Lobster for reminding me about Ayurvedic herbs šæ I used to take Ashwaganda for stress but Tulsi might be better for mood.
Tavs
Re: My Dharma practice today
todays daozen pactice,
wake up. natural calm and be with the body. this is calm abiding and body awareness practice.
light three incent. homage to the buddha, dharma, shangha. and i said, may i/we be safe. be smart. be well. this is well wishing practice.
makes cigarette. in hale ex hale. aware life and death in the breath. mind awareness practice death and life is one. nonduality practice.
watch tv utube. watch vimalakirti .be inform practice, laypeople is equal to monks in being enlighten to the dharma. vimalakirti is our example.
rewatch simply the best by celine. feel the samstate of celine. samantha nou. this is bond/one practice in tantric. be the praise language of our law, ddd state, diety dao dharma.
drink my coffee and cigarette mindfully. this is awareness of mind body practice.
continue my daozen rest in action before work. and further zen aware "meditation in rest in action. the flow state in us we can experience in a day.
future practice play fetch with our family dog. metta practice. love is in you practice.
essentually all is zen, medetation and absorbtion to it all.
Happy Halloween
To celebrate I have been eating my own version of a soulcake. Well OK just a shortbread biscuit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_cake
As a horror pumpkin and its crazy cult following is now burying America, we can all relate to the un-dead and similar foretold atrocities.
As soul-less Buddhists we may be involved in a stranger mythology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_ghost
Personally I think I will stick wth treats... You?
lobster