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Re: lasting presence in the shortest time possible without going through a "dark night of the soul"
If I need to go thru rebirth again then there must be something I need to learn before I can go home.
My cousin + partner, have spent their health, monies and even at times, sanity, on building and rebuilding a house and garden. They have a lovely home, garden, visitors, family and lifestyle.
They feel they have built this. In one sense, their house and garden etc has built them. In other words, our roles and efforts, maintain our life and dictate the results of our path.
You want to go home? You are. Now, walk the walk and talk the talk. Mostly be the Bodhi not the bondage.
lobster
Re: Joy, Blissfulness, Silence
Then that is the place where the internet falls down, as a place of genuine sharing. You are welcome to discuss about my sharings, there is nothing wrong in it, but you may end up following the workings of the mind and miss the finger pointing to the moon…
Jeroen
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
I sat down to watch, knowing that debating skills are not really a necessary skill set that a president needs to do his job.
But...
I was shocked at Biden's tottering on his way to the podium and it just went downhill from there. When he started speaking I hoped someone had recently checked him for a UTI.
He was easily flustered, endlessly repeating the same phrases, losing the endings of his own sentences, and had me angry that he was the **one **who arranged a televised debate that was going to cost him an election that he might have otherwise won.
I like and respect Biden but like a lot of other Democrats in positions of power, somewhere he severely overestimated his own age-related decline to the detriment of his party. A man who cared more for his policies than his own place within them would have groomed a younger replacement and stepped aside long before it got to this point.
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Re: There is no escape from no duality
Buddhism talks about long lived blissful states of existence and argues that Nirvana is different than these sorts of states. They understand that enlightenment takes work and sacrifice, but argue that these efforts are the only truly reliable efforts towards a lasting relief from suffering.
I'm sure I don't really understand your views here but I'd say that duality is the nature of samsara, or conditioned existence. I tend to look to the philosophy of Taoism as a framework to understand existence and Buddhism as a way to transcend it.
Thanks for your thoughts, we used to have lots of interesting speculation like this around here.
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