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Re: Rebirth or Transformation?
Oh God! What if getting a description of the indescribable, isn't possible?
What if the only thing that could describe anything, ceases with death?
Could we just be a temporarily assembled taxi cab for karma's travel convenience?
Each religion's storyline seems to be an appeasement of their congregation's fears.
Buddhism's afterlife stories conveniently confirm their own unique doctrines just like any other religion does.
Fortunately, the spiritual experiences of each devotee in the endless range of differing religions unwaveringly manage to stay in their own respective lanes.
Just more hot spiritual Florida property for sale just below the high tide mark?
Anyone have a good description for spiritual adulthood?
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Re: Giving Up?
Heh!
A Buddha eats just as a common mortal eats.
A Buddha sleeps as a common mortal sleeps
What them is the difference?
A Buddha understands
A common mortal guesses and speculates
A Buddha arises from a common mortal
A common mortal does not arise from a Buddha
Wine anyone?
Lionduck
Re: Funny Stuff
@Shoshin1 said:
I can't think of one at the moment, but I know that somewhere out there is a funny caption to go with this ..So I'm open to offers
In a "I think I left the oven on" moment the mandorin Mussolini admits to son he may have left the nuclear codes activated
Re: Funny Stuff
A bit of Aussie humour from "The Inspired Unemployed" .
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JHzfSTFnNdo
It reminds me of my old hitchhiking days travelling around Oz 
Shoshin1
Re: Funny Stuff
I can't think of one at the moment, but I know that somewhere out there is a funny caption to go with this ..So I'm open to offers
Shoshin1
Re: Pristine Pure Land Buddhism
@lobster said:
Don't forget to listen to the ad at the end. Not sure if the actual Pureland will be ad free. We can but pray we will get to the deluxe ad free Pureland...
Those of us with YT Premium are already guaranteed an ad free entry to the Pure Land 
Bunks
Re: Funny Stuff
An old man of eighty-two went to a sperm bank to make a deposit.
"Are you sure," asked the woman at the reception desk, "that you want to do this?" "Yes," answered the old man, "I feel it is my duty to give something of myself to the world."
The woman handed him a jar, and directed him to a room down the hall. When thirty minutes had passed and he did not return, the girl began to worry. She feared he might have had a heart attack or a stroke.
At that moment the old man came out of the room and approached the young woman. "Listen," he said, "I tried it with one hand, then I tried it with two hands, then I got it up and beat it on the sink. Then I ran warm water on it, then cold water over it....
"And still I can't get the lid off the jar."
Jeroen
Re: Stillness… quiet… the body
Yes, the Buddha's Dharma of no-self, which is what distinguishes itself from most other religions, is pretty untenable to the average ego.
But....
The Buddha did not promote any destructiveness to either body or mind, just our attachments to both. Where our attachments to body & mind are no longer fed, the illusionary constructs of the self can dissipate along with suffering's cause.
If a view of naturalism of the human condition is what you seek, why continue flirting with Buddhism when Taoist babes could be standing by waiting for your call?
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