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Re: What happens to the world when everybody attains Buddhahood?
What would the Buddha say? Probably nothing.
Bunks
Re: What happens to the world when everybody attains Buddhahood?
I've heard Tāntikas on DharmaWheel say similar things as the man who quotes Garab Dorje. As far as I can see, from their view, a new set of beings is "spontaneously generated."
The view that I am familiar with is that the sattvadhātu (the realm of beings) is endless and will never be emptied, just as Nirvāṇa will never be "filled up" with Buddhas. There is an old treatise concerning this called the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta. It is more widely-read in East Asian Buddhism than in Tibetan Buddhism. I can quote from it in a bit. It's a mildly interesting text, as dense and wieldy Buddhist texts go.
Re: just do the pose
Or perhaps he is 'practicing' Dukkha/Unsatifactoriness AKA suffering.... and seeing for himself AKA Ehipassiko...that pain is inevitable (his meditation posture)....suffering optional ( there are other ways to sit) ....
Shoshin1
Re: just do the pose
What does it mean?
There I was (all superior with a poker up my ass) realising that we are all poseurs … [yes this is a true story] …
At the moment [polite warning: may contain mention of non Buddhist posing] I don't use a cushion. I sit on something called 'a floor'. I also use even more extreme handy postures (mudra) than our example meditator in the first post, for example prayer mudra. Hands on knees, shoulders, palms of feet. All kinds of crazy places.
Also I use yoga asana as meditation posturing. I watch and soften my breath until it is silent. Sometimes I chant so quietly even Siri and Alexa and Amitabha can not hear me.
As someone in another thread reminded … I remind myself often, even when typing, walking or being mindless, 'I am not meditating'. In fact if I ever catch myself meditating, I immediately stop.
Anyway I am so superior. Please take note … but not of me … 
https://web.stanford.edu/class/history11sc/pdfs/mudras.pdf
lobster
Re: just do the pose
So the photo > @ShanJieshi2 said:
I often feel compelled to offer them help that they have not asked for or know exists.
What is your advice, my friend...do I offer them the basics of the Dhamma and a proper meditation posture or do I wait for the need to know to arise in them?
(This guy is already offering meditations to other people... ( obviously on a $$$$basis)
So is it advertising?
There's a large sign on a fence near my home with the word Meditation on it and a phone no.
I called out of curiosity and discovered it was a secular group advertising classes but they were charging an outrageous amount for a 6 week course. I was pretty quick to hang up.
Bunks
Re: Migration to a new forum software soon(ish)
Copy the GIF's URL (from the browser bar — or right click an image and choose "Copy Image Address" or similar) or save it to your computer (or your photos on a phone) and then upload it:
Linc
Re: just do the pose
This is a very good question. Skillful means is the solution.
It is difficult for any practitioner to not just substitute one's base attachments with spiritual versions of the same. Progress can seem to be experienced but suffering's wheel is still being turned. Find the way to stop your own turning of this wheel and those around who are suffering, sensing this stillness, will naturally lead themselves towards it.
how
Re: Shall we foregather in the Garden....?
It is hard @how.
I only grow weeds, herbs and flowers. Some weeds double up as wild flowers. Today a magpie was dismantling a coconut husk lined hanging basket for nesting material. I like magpies, they belong to the crow family. Slugs and snails rather like my primulas but I try and provide alternative munchies. My one squirrel visitor turns up with peanuts to bury.
The garden Buddhas are guarding some geraniums, which should start flowering soon …
Buddha Nature and nature is change/impermanent/transitory …
lobster
Re: just do the pose
In zen I'd call this a good picture of how to choose a meditating posture that requires a distracting amount of physical effort to maintain. An apex foundational platform, marginally supportive of the body's center mass, narrowly balancing on two running shoes and a bony ass and poorly allowing for the tilted pelvis that can allow for a relaxed posture.
Sometimes chosen by koan crunching devotees for the extra tension that it can add to a riddling practice.
so...a possible teaching aid.
how
Re: The Most Powerful Chinese Medicine "Chi/Qi"
Qi/Chi is part of the "physicalist" world. It's the energy generated by the electrical functions of our body: the circuitry of the brain, the heart's electric ticker, and the functioning of our musculature, which requires electricity to flex and relax. (This is why we need to ingest electrolytes daily.) As electricity generates a field, all these electrical functions of the body generate an external energy field, as well as internal.
The Chinese healing systems have further identified the energy flow through our body as currents that follow set pathways, which the Chinese call "meridians". Introducing pressure on these pathways has an effect on organs and other aspects of physiology, that receive energy via these pathways. Western medicine hasn't gone that far, but it has detailed the mechanisms by which our muscles utilize electricity to function, and also has noted the electrical quality of the skeletal structure. (It's amazing what you can learn in a basic Anatomy and Physiology course!)
According to physicists, our personal energy field is further bolstered by positively-charged particles emanating from the sun, and negatively-charged particles emanating from the Earth's magnetic core. This, too, contributes to our qi/chi. The entire Earth is enveloped by a magnetosphere, that imbues all of life with subtle electro-magnetic energy.
The Chinese have worked out a system by which humans can consciously harness this very subtle energy, and especially skilled practitioners apparently can amplify it. It would be great if this phenomenon could be studied and measured. Actually, that's been done in Poland and Russia, but those findings aren't taken seriously in 'the West", though no one's bothered to actually debunk it, because that would involve taking the claims seriously enough to try to duplicate the findings.
Dakini