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Do you feel something brought you here?
santhisouk
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I was curious to know if anyone felt that something brought you to this site for a reason, and has your experience here been helpful or has changed something about you?
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I just wish there were more engaging subjects. It gets tiring when the same old questions keep popping up in new threads. They've been exhausted —entirely!!!!!! I don't give a cat's whiskers anymore either about people's posturing on religious issues or their toying with 'em. In my book, nearly all religion is just organized craziness. My family is my religion, and "family" is, for me, like a river through the world. I'm always greedy to add more beautiful folks of all ages to it.
As for interest on my part on seeing "where others stand on certain issues," there's hardly any left. Why can't people just be kind and forebearing? Nearly all other issues are just things out of our control. What we think and what is real are not overlapping "realities;" the very act of thinking gives more weight to some things than is really their due.
Lately I am becoming more and more convinced of the truth that our "special thoughts" are exactly our greatest problem. There are so many special Buddhists on this forum who by their specialness are some of the nastiness people I know.
There! I said it. They can ban me if they like.
Amen.
cheers
" Pardon me if I use my mind, I was under the assumption that's what its there for!"-unknown(elizabeth taylor?)
You sound fine to me. The only genuine speech is from the heart. It's only the heart that truly encounters another being.
I just said what I needed to say on the subject. I enjoyed this site for about four years and then I could find very little of interest. I'm not all that much into esoteric stuff, unless it's about Western culture, so a lot of the hard-core Buddhist stuff is really above my head. But that doesn't really matter —since it is the heart that meets the road, as it were.
Did you know that the Western concept of "Soul" is really a physical thing that cannot "contain" Spirit? It's true, "Anima," the Latin word for soul is an "animate" thing that all "animals" have. In other words, in just the same way we speak of a "heart" (core), the Latins spoke of an "anima." But it was not something breathed in, as is the Spirit, it was some "thing" or "presence" that was actually a part of your physical being. When we refer to our "heart" (core), we are not referring to the actual organ that has four chambers and circulates the blood through the lungs first for ventilation and then through the entire body. No!
The Hebrews referred to their "bowels" as where their emotions and aspirations were located.
All this stuff about an eternal soul is rooted in medievalism, IMO, and the Buddhists are correct in not believing in the "soul," be it eternal or no.
Here is a good talk with Ajahn Sumedho about "rebirth".
http://www.buddhistpublishing.com/BN/application/Application.php?_ReferenceQuery=ProductIndex&_RecordKey=mp3-rebirth
http://abmp3.com/mp3/ajahn-sumedho-kamma-rebirth.html
I think you might want to rethink your irritation with One fair way to define Buddhism, I think, is "same shit, different day." Over and over and over again ... adding endless books to an endless bookshelf, adding ever wiser thoughts to already-wise thoughts, heaping stirring emotion onto emotion that has already been stirred. To suggest that on an internet bulletin board any topic can or could be "completely exhausted" is to misapprehend the human construct.
Be like a duck: Sip what you like and let the rest roll off your back.
I'm always noticing things in my life and in others lives that involves perfect timing. Any later and that person wouldn't have cared, any sooner and they wouldn't have cared.
I happened to google an unrelated subject and a thread open to the public popped up. Before this, I never desired to read a Buddhist discussion board, but something in that thread got my wheels churning. I asked to join, thinking I would never probably visit the site. Suddenly I started to enjoy looking at how other Buddhists use Buddhism in their lives. I also got a kick out of how human other Buddhists were (getting offended, getting into arguments, being a little self-righteous). It was a grounding feeling to know that I'm not the only one who is imperfect at times... and that other Buddhists are not always so, eh Buddhist
Where timing comes in... is that I hadn't noticed that I was feeling kind of lonely with Buddhism by myself. Being busy in college and living in a small town, I guess I was desiring some stimulation. Who can challenge my perspectives when nobody else practices Buddhism? All my friends usually just agree with me, or don't care about the subjects I get interested in. Checking the posts in my free time has gives me stimulation, and I like seeing how others interpret things.
Also, I remember when I had questions that were the same as another may today, isn't that how this Path all just works? And today's confidence can be replaced by the next moment's insecurity. I think it is all OK. Just my opinion today.
Best wishes,
Abu