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Re: Buddhist quotes
“Those who easily believe others are said by the Buddha to be foolish.”
— Ajahn Chah
Jeroen
Re: Craving For Food
That sounds very positive, @person. It’s interesting how a bad experience — feeling ill — can also have good sides when you are observant. I have also been looking at my relationship to food. I have been listening to the body more, lately. And part of that has been not eating when I do not feel hungry. I’ve been eating one meal a day some days, other days skipping dinner.
I found it surprising how little food we actually need. Three square meals a day seems like an excess to me now, maybe a farmhand or a manual labourer might need that.
Jeroen
Re: What we are doing right?
Even the best of us have those times when we find the little gremlin has picked the lock and run out to break dishes, overturn teacups and generally create mischief and mayhem. Eventually, we are able to get our gremlin, kicking and screaming, by the scruff of the neck and toss it back into it's cage, slam the door shut and put a new lock on the door. Then we return to trying to develop our mercy and compassion - until the next time. And there will continue to be next times until we eventually get it right (maybe).
But that is just part of life, of living. After all, the gremlin and the Bodhisattva are one and the same.
Don't kick yourself when you trip or fall or momentarily step "off the path". Just get back up, reset your feet, step back on the path and move ahead. You have just learned one more way not to screw up and one more way to recover.
Welcome to the life of a Human Being.
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: What we are doing right?
What we are doing right?
I laugh a lot, because in my daily life I find that there are always things to laugh about...And when I'm serious, I'm serious, because there are things/situations which require some seriousness ...but not too much seriousness as this can be detrimental to ones health and well being...
Many moons ago a Buddhist friend who lives in Europe told me what her Dharma once told her group/Sangha "Beware of unhappy Buddhists...They are not really practicing, just being intellectual "
Which also reminds me of this:
The Dharma.
Shoshin1
Re: The morals of a spiritual person
Enthalpy versus entropy for the spiritually inclined.
As a Buddhist, I think anyone who tries to "Do only good, cease from evil and purify their Heart/Mind"...is a spiritual being, despite also being a jangly ball of Karmic momentum.
Here, no person, religion, organization, tribe, race, culture, or group, has a lock on being any more particularly spiritual than anyone else.
If your cousin wishes to meet more people who are honest, upright, and principled in life, you could try telling him that likes attract likes.
If your cousin is finding a dearth of spiritual people around him, maybe he's only experiencing that same limited amount of spirituality that he is manifesting himself.
The human condition is imbued with a personal sense of separation from others.
A spiritual being is just someone trying to deconstruct the inertia of those conditioned behaviors. Even with the subtlest of attachments, those faint tugs on our heartstrings will continue to mock our morals of being spiritually accomplished at all.
Looking for others to share in our practices is understandable, given our susceptibility to the human condition.....
but
a transactional practitioner might also question just when do those meager appeasements to our social attachments end up being the actual limitation to one's progression along the path towards suffering's cessation?
Cheers all.
how
Re: What movies are you watching?
We have entered the twilight zone "He's Alive"
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7y3z51
Shoshin1
Re: What we are doing right?
A small victory today. I had an early breakfast and didn't really have time for my morning meditation. Mid day I was feeling a bit stressed and down and sat down for a 20 minute meditation. Normally if I miss my normal routine I'll have a hard time pulling myself out of the momentum of the day to do something like that.
person
Re: What we are doing right?
What we are doing right?
Regularly checking in and monitoring my thoughts as they come and go helps me maintain balance. Occasionally, unwholesome thoughts—those capable of disrupting the mind's flow—slip in unnoticed. But for the most part, this practice keeps things (and thoughts, as they are indeed things) in check.
Oh and the other thing...Not taking my life too seriously....
Shoshin1