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Re: Energy wasted
My daughter is currently obsessed with not wasting time or missing out on things. Poor kid, it totally stresses her out.
She came to me the other day and asked “Dad, do you think I wasted my day?” “No darling “ I reply. “Oh good” she says relieved and wanders off.
If her brother wakes before her I have to go wake her up to ensure he doesn’t get more time awake in the day than she does!
Bunks
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
@Bunks said:
@federica said:
I haven't been asleep since I woke up Wednesday morning.
Another night plagued by insomnia
It's a miracle I'm even functioning at all. Once hubby leaves for work, I might just crawl back into my pit and try to get at least a short while of shut-eye.
My usual witty self I may be. Fit to drive, I am most definitely not.
Shopping will have to wait.....Oh no Fede! Have you tried anything to help you sleep? Melotonin?
Thanks, @Bunks; I know what's caused it. It always happens - I began a period of Fasting yesterday morning, and it always deprives me of sleep when I do. Things will go back to normal tonight. I guess I should thank my lucky stars I'm not in employment now.
@Jeroen said: A bad bout of insomnia is awful, it leaves you so dull and energyless. I sympathise Fede, hope you can catch some shut-eye and feel better in the afternoon.
Thank you. Never managed to grab any shut-eye, but did lie down for an hour or so, and did nothing... which actually helped.
I feel somewhat better now. And I'm happy to report that since I stopped drinking tea and coffee with caffeine, I have slept much better. And keeping away from technology for at least an hour before retiring, has also been helpful...
federica
Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya
But the three Kayas of the Buddha are not truly so far away. They aren't something even which need to be created anew, nor something which are not present at this very moment.
The Dharmakaya is the ungraspable, unfathomable, intangible unborness of mind, which resists all efforts to hold or conceptualise. Looking at mind, I try to somehow get hold of it, to get a hold on it, but it's utterly resistant to all those efforts. I let go of grasping, and its 'nothingness' fills awareness. Not a blank nothingness, but an utter unfindability which is the matrix of being. The Dharmakaya is my fertile voidness, and is present whether experienced or not. It doesn't come fresh into being when realised, but is our very nature. A glimpse of utter indescribableness reveals our Dharmakaya, a jewel waiting to be seen. All that is needed is to see what is already there (which cannot be seen by grasping mind), and keeping that in awareness, allow it to blossom forth. The Prajnaparamita sutras say that 'do not think that this body is the real Buddha, the real Buddha is the Dharmakaya'. This Dharmakaya is not so far away .. it's our inheritance, and our inheritance is present right now, hidden by only our foolish seeing. Calling the Dharmakaya 'ungraspable' is another label, and potential source of grasping or holding on to something. The Dharmakaya is not 'ungraspable', but it is truly ungraspable. There is no point of reference whatsoever, and this description doesn't provide one.
The Sambhogakaya is also here right now. Looking deeply at our own mind, there is a knowingness, a luminous clarity which co-exists with the empty unfathomableness. That very luminosity is the Sambhogakaya. Not something needing to be created, our minds reveal that aspect of clarity, of knowingness, that capacity to experience and know. It's not a thing, not a quality that can be grasped. When looked for ... it hides from view, and yet it is there .... radiant and bright. Though only experienced fully by the highest Bodhisattvas, the Sambhogakaya is not something which will arise from scratch. Our mind is luminous, aware of that or not. Looking deeply at mind, though there is no qualities there at all, nevertheless luminosity is apparent ... the Sambhogakaya within.
The Nirmanakaya is revealed in our minds. Our mind gives rise to appearances, which seemingly ebb and flow. The unobstructed appearance of 'thought' is the Nirmanakaya, the body of the Buddha. Not far away, not needing to be conjured from the start, our minds capacity for spontaneous appearance is the Nirmakaya within. Continuous seeming manifestation ... this is Nirmanakaya. Not solid or real, but seeming to arise and fall. Without anything tangible or real, the Nirmanakaya of appearances are revealed within.
The three Kayas are not far off, but are our very nature of mind. Looking again and again, the Kayas come into view. Not created where they previously didn't exist, but just seen where they were previously unseen.
It's not that I've given up on an imagined projected goal, the 'Transcendental' which lies so very far away. And that I've replaced that with another fantasy, that of 'already Enlightened' which lies comfortingly close. The three Kayas are not entirely manifest, or realised, but they are already there. They don't change or come into being, or are something which is utterly remote from experience. Looking deeply, they reveal themselves within. Our nature is Buddha Nature, the three Kayas are already there. Our experience of them is the path, Taking Mahamudra as the Path. Fully realised they are the goal, the Awakening that benefits all beings.
Not looked for elsewhere, our inheritance awaits us. What we already are, though we forget."
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http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/2004/11/dharmakaya-sambhogakaya-nirmanakaya.html
taiyaki
Re: Energy wasted
@federica said:
"Youth is wasted on the Young."G. B. Shaw.
I think this is true only from the perspective of the middle-aged.
Jeroen
Re: All things Sport(s)
Vimalajati,
I have thought about what I like and it's a couple of things and I'll mention two. One I like to see amazing feats of physical (with a mental component too) skill. Plays where I am just amazed at what I have witnessed. This happens for even sports that I've never followed. Like watching odd sports in the Olympic Games.
A second part of enjoyment does not happen for a sport or team I have never witnessed but it comes with time following a team or a sport. With time you get to know the different players on a team. You see the chemistry between players and different players have different personalities in a way. It's not a personality of talking to them but a personality of their dominant and even minor traits as a player. What makes them good and what is their weakness. With more time following a team you learn more and more and you might even learn about the teams in the league that your favorite team plays in.
Jeffrey
Re: From Buddhism to belief in God?
@Vimalajati No worries, about any miscommunication.
St Silouan was not experiencing “hell” at the moment of the revelation. He was in personal communion with the Lord through prayer. The revelation was given to him as a method of repentance and self-reproach for remedying temptations and proud thoughts.
With regard to people sitting on the fence waiting for a miracle to prove or disprove the presence of God, I think this comes from disbelief and skepticism.
One could witness or experience many miracles and still not believe. As we see in the Gospel texts, many people witnessed and still did not believe.
Today, it could be suggested to visit this church and witness the incorrupt relics of a certain saint, or visit that church and witness the myrrh streaming icons; however, if one’s heart is already full of disbelief, these miracles would be dismissed outright or explained away anyway.
Silouan
Re: All things Sport(s)
Yeah Newcastle are doing well. I was also quite impressed by the Real Madrid midfielder who came on to replace Tony Kroos, Camavinga was his name I think. Quick and very solid.
Jeroen
Re: why im here??
Having a fiery spark to one’s nature can serve well, because it often allows you to start things with energy and enthusiasm. Soon though that fiery start must give way to a steady, earthy determination, a carrying through which comes from a deep personal sincerity. The unnecessary things which form such a part of many lives should be let go of, to be carried away by the winds that surround us until there are just the pure clouds, from which the cool waters drift down and nourish us, to perhaps eventually cause the practice to bear fruit. It is a magical process 
Jeroen
why im here??
You are there to get the job done, not to admire the tools. It means getting your hands dirty. It means getting a few blisters. It means missing out on diversions and games. It means getting tired and impatient. It means falling down and getting up again. It means really looking at oneself and not liking what one sees. It means looking at your true nature and deciding what to do.
Do not lump together the idea of avoiding your suffering with the idea of the liberation of your true nature.
Do not lump together your intellectual idea of obtaining personal Awakening with the idea of the liberation of your true nature.
Do not lump together the idea that life will be more comfortable with the idea of the liberation of your true nature.
Liberate your true nature because it is there to be liberated..
