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Re: How to die?
Dying is easy.
How to live without suffering is the hard part.
Quoting Mark Twain-
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Re: Buddhist quotes
"Zen always aims at grasping the central fact of life, which can never be brought to the dissecting table of the intellect"
~DT Suzuki~
Shoshin1
Re: Healthy Habits
I usually think of the word "training" as that consistent effort of being present where one's past habituated inclinations of the ego or our identity commonly oppose being so.
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Re: Healthy Habits
I like what he says at the beginning of the video...
"A mind that is not well trained, suffering will follow
A mind that is well trained, happiness and peace will follow"
~Nick Keomahavong~
A simple truth...
Shoshin1
Re: Healthy Habits
@Jeroen said:
My experience has been different, I’ve found that training is the death of real intelligence. Training is the instilling of certain habits and automatisms, which leads to functioning at a lower level of awareness. In order to be more aware, more in the moment, one should learn to disregard the automatisms that society trains into one.
It's all about the middle way @Jeroen and not taking things to the extremes ...
From what I gather, a well trained mind just means a more skillful one ... one which is more aware/sharp/alert/attentive to the moment...
I see practicing the Dharma as a form of mind training/sharpening ones skills( or if you like real intelligence) so to speak ...nothing more ...nothing less....
Shoshin1
Re: How to die?
According to Osho, dying is not such a big affair, we make it something more than it needs to be. Instead, living is more important — celebrating, being creative, loving.
Jeroen
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
"If you always do what you have always done...You will always get what you have always got"
~Henry Ford~
Shoshin1
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
"That which knows, is never an object of its own knowledge"
~Shankara~ (a repeat)
Shoshin1
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
~Jiddu Krishnamurti~
Shoshin1
Re: Should friendships always be honest?
I'd say yes, honesty is always the best policy. But there are also other considerations when it comes to right speech, whether in friendship or otherwise:
"Monks, a statement endowed with five factors is well-spoken, not ill-spoken. It is blameless & unfaulted by knowledgeable people. Which five?
"It is spoken at the right time. It is spoken in truth. It is spoken affectionately. It is spoken beneficially. It is spoken with a mind of good-will.
"A statement endowed with these five factors is well-spoken, not ill-spoken. It is blameless & unfaulted by knowledgeable people." (AN 5.198)
So we should speak the truth, but we should also know when is the right time and when we should maybe not say something because we're too angry or the other person isn't in the right mind-state to hear what we have to say. Our words should be offered with affection and in goodwill, not anger or in order to manipulate or deceive. And we should say what is beneficial to the other, not something that will harm, degrade, or confuse another.
Whether friend or foe, we should strive to develop these skills when dealing with other people, as difficult as it may be at times. And we may not always know if what we're saying checks off all 5 boxes, but we must use our discernment to judge and then reflect upon the outcomes a la MN 61.
Jason