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Re: Waking up the world
When it comes to paying for a quick fix slice of enlightenment....You don't always get what you pay for...
Dharma practice is free, there for the taking, for those who are prepared to practice...
Shoshin1
Re: Family dinner time
here is the history of recent food trends, might be why family home cooked meals are usually healthier...
https://www.nesta.org.uk/data-visualisation-and-interactive/consuming-history-three-decades-of-change-in-how-and-what-we-eat/
lobster
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“Society represses the individual by making the individual repress themselves.”
— anonymous (1970’s counterculture)
Jeroen
Re: What music are you listening to?
Things Can Only Get Better
You can walk my path, you can wear my shoes
Learn to talk like me and be an angel too
But maybe you ain't never gonna feel this way
You ain't never gonna know me, but I know you
I'm singing it now, things can only get better
Only get better
If we see it through
That means me and I mean you too
So teach me now that things can only get better
Only get, they only get, take it on from here
You know, I know that things can only get better
I sometimes lose myself in me
I lose track of time
And I can't see the woods for the trees
You set 'em alight
Burn the bridges as you've gone, I'm too weak to fight ya
I've got my personal hell to deal with
And then you say
"Walk my path, wear my shoes
Talk like that, I'll be an angel"
And things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you
(Things can only get, can only get)
Things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you and you and you
You have shown me prejudice and greed
And you've shown me how
I must learn to deal with this disease
I look at things now
In a different light than I did before
And I've found the cause and I think that you can be my cure
So teach me to walk your path, wear your shoes
Talk like that, I'll be an angel
And things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you
(Things can only get, can only get)
Things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you
Things can only get
Things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you
(Things can only get, can only get)
And you and you and you baby
Things can only get better
They can only get better now I found you
Shoshin1
Re: A little death meditation
“You might know that certain things lead to dispassion, not passion; to unyoking, not to yoking; to dispersal, not accumulation; to fewer desires, not more; to contentment, not lack of contentment; to seclusion, not crowding; to energy, not laziness; to being unburdensome, not being burdensome. Categorically, you should remember these things as the teaching, the training, and the Teacher’s instructions.” (AN8.53)
Jeroen
Re: A little death meditation
Appearances come and go. Even the blue or white light!
What is left when appearances cease or stop?
Nibbana is the unmanifest, unborn, deathless, unconditioned, the island that you cannot go beyond.
There is, monks, an unborn[1] — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated. If there were not that unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, there would not be the case that escape from the born — become — made — fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, escape from the born — become — made — fabricated is discerned.[2]
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.8.03.than.html
The Blessed One said, "Mindfulness of death, when developed & pursued, is of great fruit & great benefit. It gains a footing in the Deathless, has the Deathless as its final end. Therefore you should develop mindfulness of death."
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an06/an06.019.than.html
Re: All Change ...
Just a reminder that, new services, sites (to you) should be researched carefully prior to engaging them. There are too, too many who, it urns out can't or won't provide services as advertised. Be curious, be adventurous, but also be cautious. When you find the gem in the rubble, then you can celebrate a successful hunt.
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: All Change ...
Always be curious
Never stop seeking
Never stop learning
Never stop trying
Life is a challenge
Life is a great adventure
Do not worry about your seeking, your personal practice, not being pure - perfect.
It is in the seeking, the stumbling,the learning, the trying that we grow.
in this sense, the voyage is the goal. In climbing a mountain, reaching the peak is mearly the sign that marks your advance. After all, once reaching the peak, behold, more mountains. Beautiful!
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: Life death and rebirth
Why suffer endlessly around the mentality of life, death and rebirth, when some acceptance of each bare moment freely offers up the answers to what we'd usually prefer not to face.
how
Re: Life death and rebirth
@sciencebuff said:
For the longest time I had the interpretation of reality that life was half pleasure/life and half pain/death and that rebirth was at best neutral or the background in which this happened. It really disturbed me to live in a world of half pain. **Is this really the nature of things or is rebirth good too and things are at least 2/3 good and 1/3 bad?
A wise Bodhisattva once said: (Roshi Willy Shakespeare )
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”
Allow awareness to choose your thoughts wisely...
Shoshin1