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Re: A Buddhist teacher admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED!
@IdleChater said:
Strange - I don't really think we have failed in our mission. I don't even know what sort of mission I/we are supposed to be on. I don't recall being asked to accept one.And it sounds like Jundo is just trying to sell his book.
Nice one, Jundo.
100% of the proceeds will go to Buddhist and other charities, nothing to me. I would never sell Dharma.
The mission is in the Vow is to save all sentient beings, though numberless, from Dukkha as well as, for us engaged folks in this modern world, war and violence, hunger and poverty, and the like.
Gassho, Jundo
Jundo
Re: Being fed up with all things spiritual
Having an open heart is not simply blind acceptance of what is written. The correct approach is synthesis between what you feel to be true, and the truth of what is written.
Jeroen
Re: Being fed up with all things spiritual
@Jeroen said:
keeping your opinion intact.
That's the problem. Your opinion.
My guru told me that true devotion was an open heart. In Buddhist parlance, this is the same as open mind. Clinging to an opinion, keeping it intact, as you say, is not having an open heart. This will present difficulties, making attainment of the path all the more difficult.
Re: Being fed up with all things spiritual
And there's the trap!
Re: Seven Factors of Awakening
The very positive environment is ideally created by the sangha.
How do we move towards these seven factors?
- We practice each. Each virtue, each day, as and when we can
- We share what we have in terms of experience, knowledge and inspiration
- We emulate or enact the very best we know and acknowledge
- We placate, divest, sublimate our impediments into gainful direction
- We find what we can do, be involved with and help with
- We simplify life, needs, being and habits
- We in essence, become Bodhi
Wot no jokes?
lobster
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Is she a bodhissatva? Trying to save lost souls from hell?
Kotishka
Re: Four Immeasurables
Well said @Lionduck and remember ... You are not a Buddha or anything ... 
lobster
Re: What Meditation Is About
@Jeroen said:
Often when trying to see the wisdom in a piece of writing it is about understanding the boundary where wise text strays into the unwise. You may see a piece of text and feel intuitively that it is wise, and you may see another piece of text and feel nothing towards it. This is the understanding of the heart, and does not bring clarity about the boundaries of wisdom. That requires a deeper seeing, and only then can you untangle what is wise about a certain text.
WTH are you talking about?