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Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“I found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard ‘new things’: that is, things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.”
—Ouspensky
Jeroen
Re: Applications for Buddhism
Work off bad karma, try not to generate new bad karma, continuous re-dedication.
My offering is continual effort toward uncovering, disenchanting, and renouncing the wrong views which lead to attachments and grasping.
My practice is in prudently letting them go as awareness of grasping arises.
Maybe with enough practice I will see what this being's contribution to others will be. It's clearly not art or making deep social bonds.
Re: Applications for Buddhism
@Bunks said:
2. Tonglen (Taking suffering and Giving compassion)
Ah ha! The hard stuff eh … 
I modified the tonglen for my Western/non-Bon/heretical sensibilities. I found my application more appropriate to my aversion to dukkha 
- Create a rainbow bubble around your being, this allows the good stuff in AND
- Boost it with gratitude, metta and imagining a higher form
- Resonate it outward, transforming
Not everyone is suited to Tonglen eg masochists, depressives, buddhist vampires
https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/
lobster
Re: The Guru Papers discussion
I suppose the wonder and power of feeling a great insight into practice can cause someone to think bad ideas are good ideas. Dare I say that it happens to all of us?
Jeffrey
Re: as we progress …
I've heard of meditation in part helping to experience samadhi absorptions in meditation. But now I don't think any Samadhi lasts forever so I think maybe I will have some Sama "don't" and this is not a feeling of absorption but likewise not having a good concentrated feeling is itself not a score card saying to fuss up experience again to get out of that Sama "don't" that seems to blanket the minds play.
Post meditation we feel a charge or not and what to do with it then? Trungpa in the lojong training the mind said to be a child of illusion post meditation, but I tend to be a more cautious child than many.
Jeffrey
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
@federica said:
With all the world's wonders, sometimes, a little corner of England, delights and suffices...
I love the English country side! Having grown up in an environment that’s generally more brown than green, it’s such a refreshing change
Bunks
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
federica
Re: Buddhist quotes
“The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then, Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible.
The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have...
Now what is the basis of Buddhism?
If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason.
There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.”
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, "The Buddha and His Dhamma: A Critical Edition."
federica
Re: The Guru Papers discussion
@Jeroen said:
True, but when you realise a guru was just a human, there is going to follow somewhat of a reassessment of their teachings. Yes, don’t throw out the baby with the bath water, but you need to identify what is baby and what is bath water.
I've never seen any guru/teacher as anything other than a human being warts and all...some more wise than others and how I interpret their wisdom depends on how beneficial their teachings were for my sense of peace and well being...
If after carefully analysing a teaching and it does not sit well with me, then this approach will not be adopted as part of my practice....
The guide I use is my experiential understanding (be it somewhat limited...however...so far so good) of the 4NTs and 8FP...
After listening to or reading the teaching, it's a case of 'Ehipassiko'...I see for myself...
One practitioner's meat is (perhaps) another practitioner's poison
Shoshin1
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
With all the world's wonders, sometimes, a little corner of England, delights and suffices...
federica