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Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
— Rumi
What is the Path?
A self-sacrificing way,
But also a warrior’s way, and not
For brittle, easily-broken, glass-bottle people.
The soul is tested here by sheer terror,
As a sieve sifts and separates
Genuine from fake.
And this road is full of footprints!
Companions have come before.
They are your ladder.
Use them!
Without them you won’t have the spirit-quickness
You need. Even a dumb donkey
Crossing a desert becomes nimble-footed
With others of its kind.
Stay with a caravan. By yourself,
You’ll get a hundred times more tired,
And fall behind
Jeroen
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
"Tears are prayers too, they travel to Allah when you can't find the words"
~Rumi~
Shoshin1
Re: Adventure and wanting to be a hero
@DagobahZen said:
I am Captain Mundane . I don't think they'll be making the movie anytime soon. 😂
Ah but maybe they will. Remember during the COVID epidemic, when people would stand outside hospitals and applaud the nurses and doctors within? That was an act of heroism.
Anyway maybe they will make a movie about the heroism in ordinary life, the wives-slash-fulltime-carers who look after husbands with Alzheimer’s, the good neighbours who make a pan of soup for you, the volunteers who look after the sports society for the neighbourhood kids.
Jeroen
Re: Letting go of games
“Psychoanalysis does not lead to understanding or insight. Instead, analysis gives multiple views on problems, leading to a thousand views where in fact only one problem exists…”
— Osho
Hmmm. Perhaps that is what I am doing in this topic.
Jeroen
Re: Ways to spend time
Dear Friends of focussed behaviour,
How do you feel? Sometimes I generate posts that are far from the far shore, far from peace of mind. That, to some, means, copy. To others it means, my mind is like that. It is awful. 😶
The grounding focus that @marcitko describes, is an example of behaviour that is mind calming. Giving us the option, to master rather than inflict or express unhelpful mind states on ourselves and others.
When we are on a Buddhist forum, we interpret and illustrate either wisdom or ignorance, in it's complete range. Crazy wisdom is not a gibbering and jabbering stream of mind noise. Which in effect, can be potentially dangerous. 
It is why I have a traditional practice and am still learning. Always. It is a bit like slowing down. Stilling, focussing on what is happening… Finding where the sense and mind gates arise from. In this sense, we can even cut 'no-grass' or turn turfs.
So are the reactions to others posts are an opportunity for meaningful and comprehensible feedback? Always. 🫶
lobster
Re: Adventure and wanting to be a hero
@Lionduck said:
Ah, heroes are not so much the valiant the warrior standing alone against the horde.
This is the thing. The game and movie hero stereotype obscures the reality.
Jeroen
Re: The don’t know mind
Only the Smokey Bear Sutra can save me... or maybe not...
https://sacred-texts.com/bud/bear.htm
lobster
Re: The real in the here-and-now
If you ask me....'Trying' has a lot to answer for....always trying to poke its nose in where it isn't wanted or needed...
Shoshin1
Re: The real in the here-and-now
Neither trying to think nor trying not to think.
Just sitting with no deliberate thought is the most important aspect of zazen.
What I see as a mind no longer getting to ride roughshod over my other sense gates.
Here, experiencing the body & mind as one, beyond the limitations of the human condition, or our identities storyline, or a self versus others viewpoint, freedom options arise from what might otherwise have been an ego-hobbled existence.
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