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Re: Not-seeking
Thus have I heard.
"Don't practice to 'become' enlightened...Let your practice be the natural expression of your enlightenment"...
In other words don't seek, just do...
Seeking enlightenment is a fool's game...
We all have Buddha nature...( Buddhas in waiting)
"Paradoxically, it takes time to become who we already are"
Shoshin1
Re: Running on Karma (2003) HK movie - a question on karma
I didn't see the movie....but
Karma is universal, ripening into fruition whenever its causal factors allow it to. If those causal factors are substantial enough within any individual's karmic inheritance, then that karma's fruition can be seen to be specific to that individual. It is also important to realize that Karma is only one, of a number of other laws, that describe how the circumstances of life around us can be affected.
I think a view on Karma can be measured more helpfully as "right" whenever its teaching helps anyone move from selfishness to selflessness.
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Re: ‘The Monk’ Danish documentary
@Jeroen said:
Yet when I met the Dagpo Rinpoche, there was something unusually clean and white about him.
And this means? What you assume?
Did you observe any other people present, how were they behaving?
Some enlightened people behave in an apparently strange way. Babies and innocents are clean and bright. Enlightened? Not so much so.
You keep quoting Osho/BogOne/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh
Was Chandra Mohan Jain a clown guru? Buddha? Because...?
lobster
Re: The deathless
Isn't Deathlessness, Nirvana or the goal of goallessness, just words to express a transcendence of our conditioned responses to any phenomena?
Considering that the very search for such states needs to be let go of before they are likely to visit, it's a marvel that anybody experiences any of them at all.
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Re: Letting go of games
@Jeroen said:
A cool game mechanic here, I’ve always liked the Zelda games, and Nintendo’s approach.
Although there is nothing to be learnt here pertaining to the spiritual path, I find myself intrigued and a little excited. Somehow it stirs the passions, and I would like to know why it kindles this energy in me.
Just to look a little more deeply, I find it interesting that it is a female lead character, doing puzzley things by creating echoes of items in the game. It seems to be almost entirely non-combat. Yet there is still an element of strategy, puzzle and victory. It’s brilliant game design.
If I can be a bit direct. I feel like you have this analytical side of your disposition that the spiritual world you grew up in didn't really celebrate, the emphasis is more on the yin side of things. Then your forays into that aspect of life led to negative outcomes and that has led you to try to deny or suppress that aspect of yourself. I think you need to look for healthy, spiritually aligned ways to express this longing. For example there are people with psychological backgrounds who use games as a therapeutic method for healing and development of others. I remember a story of someone who made a game to help get over their grief at losing a child and it gained a large following from other people it helped. 
But I'm not sure we're really on the same path or looking for the same outcomes. So this may be just me projecting my psychology and interest onto you.
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Re: ‘The Monk’ Danish documentary
Even if he showed signs of progressing dementia, maybe that was the next step in his journey, letting go of thinking and becoming closer to being a child again. If you truly are close to being enlightened and don’t have to rely on the body anymore it should stand to reason that the things dementia does to you would have little influence on you.
Certainly for my stepfather that wasn’t true. He lost more and more of his presence of mind, and started having personality changes as his Alzheimer’s progressed. So maybe these things like spiritual progress are still linked to the body, however ecstatic you feel.
Jeroen
Re: LLM / "AI" text on NewBuddhist
Well Shoshin became Soshin1 to overcome a similar problem
You could @Linc (as I have just done) or write to one fo the moderators ... or post in this thread as you have done. I forgot my password and Linc kindly changed it. I recently forgot it, whilst trying to access from a phone (similar to your problem). I had it written in my password notes (which had temporarily been stolen by a multidimensional imp - or I had misplaced it).
A little patience and I am sure it can be sorted 
I seem to have some weird console mode. So tried using that to see if I could find your password. Fortunately I could not. That would make me a hacker/cracker or moderator. That would be too much power for my little brain 
lobster
Re: RIP Dr Michael Mosley
It seems seven tourists died, and three more are missing, because of the unseasonable 40 degree plus heat in the Greek isles.
Jeroen
The deathless
Just as a short tribute to Bhikkhu Samahita Thera’s view of a documentary on the deathless, I did a little research.
In Buddhism, to be deathless means you have realised Nirvana and are liberated from samsara and will have no more rebirths and thus no more deaths. So in a way the first step is understanding what it means to have realised nirvana.
Nirvana is quite a complex concept in Buddhism, in short it means the “blowing out” of the passions of greed, aversion and ignorance. But Nirvana is not a place like paradise or a state like bliss, instead it is characterised by inner peace and clarity of understanding. It is an end to suffering and the cycle of rebirth that perpetuates it. To achieve this, one can follow the Noble Eightfold Path.
It is interesting though, to see if this truly feels like the spiritual path that you personally are meant to follow. My feeling is that one can meditate on these things, to see if they ring true. It may take days or weeks before an answer arrives, for me it is often a very slow process. Your mileage may vary.
Jeroen
Re: ‘The Monk’ Danish documentary
I know nothing of this monk but is has me remember that....
It is not uncommon to meet meditative practitioners who seem to have swapped out their** worldly** set of attachments for a spiritual equivalent of the same.
While this can be an experiential upgrade in the degree to which their suffering has accordingly lessened, it can often result in an entrenchment in the attachments they originally sought to address.
Eventually when this karmic loan comes due for repayment, if the need for deeper levels of renunciation are not met, the result of that entrenchment poorly equips the practitioner to face those consequences.
One teacher of mine, used to remind her longer-term students, that the higher you spiritually climb, the further you have to potentially fall with every misstep.
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