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Do you live BY anything mainly? Relating to and not relating to Buddhism?

BeachHouseGuyBeachHouseGuy
edited July 2011 in Buddhism Basics
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  • TalismanTalisman Veteran
    I live by a road, which is kind of like a path. Buddhism is a path. So I kind of live by something related to Buddhism, yes ... :p
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    If it 'relates' to Buddhism, that's not Buddhism.
    If it doesn't 'relate' to Buddhism, that's not Buddhism either.

    There are dirty dishes in the kitchen. Since Buddhism is unlikely to wash them for me, I guess I'll have to stop dithering and go wash them.
  • YishaiYishai Veteran
    edited July 2011
    What the OP is asking is clear (or at least I thought it was), but everybody is giving unclear responses.

    Simple. Keep it simple.

    I don't particularly live by any one thing in particular. The Eightfold Path is something good to live by though.
  • BeachHouseGuyBeachHouseGuy
    @Yishai Same, this is more along the line of what I was interested in.
  • KarmaDondrupTashiKarmaDondrupTashi
    We should be living at least according to the layperson Pratimoksha vows.
  • compassionate_warriorcompassionate_warrior Veteran
    If you live by kindness and compassion naturally, what more do you need? Do we really need to be told to be kind by a religion? You live by your own values. I think some people are attracted to Buddhism because it reflects their own values (and doesn't make you believe in fairy tales--lol!)
  • DandelionDandelion London Veteran
    Hmmm. Interesting question, can I answer with creativity and effort?
  • DandelionDandelion London Veteran
    I'm considering the Eightfold Path, but I need to learn more about it and Buddhism in general, books are winging their way to me from Amazon right now :coffee:
  • CloudCloud Veteran
    edited July 2011
    What I live by isn't so much from Buddhism or any other religion, but a result of peering into things through own-investigation and the Buddha's teachings. Mainly, it is that awareness (mine, yours, a dog's, an ant's) is the same. The nature of mind as the experience of ever-changing form is the same. The desire to find happiness and avoid suffering is the same. That it all changes, constantly and despite desires, is the same.

    Everything is based on this same-ness of the fabric of existence, that awareness of experience is fleeting and without a self-essence or stability, having only the nature of free-flowing change and the interplay of entangled drops in an infinite bucket, belonging to no one and no thing yet always in play. Ineffable. Ephemeral. Beautiful.

    Goldfish swims through water.
  • thickpaperthickpaper Veteran
    The Eightfold Path, but with the focus on the Sukka not the Dukka.

    Always Be Kind
    Always Be Honest
    Always Be Now
    &
    Make More Happy
  • VincenziVincenzi Veteran
    mostly ahimsa
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