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Re: Is the Buddha an experimentalist?
Additionally everyone has different dispositions and are at different places on the path. Absent a truly wise, qualified teacher to direct us step by step experimentation is the way.
The best medicine is that which is customized to the individual. Trying to strictly follow the written teaching might not be that fruitful.
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Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“What is the path of virtue? No religion has been able to provide it -- not even the criterion by which it can be judged.
As far as I am concerned, I say to live joyously, contented, fulfilled, sharing your love, your silence, your peace, letting your life become such a beautiful dance that not only you feel blessed but you can bless the whole world -- that is the only authentic path. Life is itself the criterion; everything else is non-essential.”
— Osho
Jeroen
Re: Renouncing: is it a good thing?
For folks interested in walking directly along the path towards suffering's cessation....
renunciation can simply be that steadfast effort to not keep acquiescing to our attachment's directions.
What do you think about a renunciation of one's greed, hate, or delusion?
A committed renunciation of a specific attachment can address the suffering that arises from that particular attachment.
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A committed renunciation of all of one's attachments can address the suffering that arises from all of one's attachments.
The main difficulty in transitioning from the first state of renunciation to the second stated state, is that renunciation in itself can also be an attachment in need of being addressed.
Here one needs to be wary that they've not just swapped out one base attachment for a spiritual version of the same.
So renouncing can either be helpful or not, depending on whether it results in the dissolving of attachments or morphs into the solidification of another.
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Re: Renouncing: is it a good thing?
I tend to think that looking deeply into our behavior and why we do something would be a precursor to renunciation.
Of course, there could be times in our lives when we are forced to stop doing something we enjoy but when I think of renunciation, there is usually reasoning behind it already.
Re: Wild Flowers
A practical farmer rotates crops and has a small area for herbs and for flowers. A practical man knows the value of the roses, of a place to gaze upon serene beauty, such a man will keep the roses.
A hungry man may forget.
A greedy man has never known.
Peace to all
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