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How to know Buddha if we think we are greater than a dirt ?
Why human still "learning" Buddhism after 2500 years introduced by Mr Siddharta ? Because human have a nature of ego / selfishness / pride / fail to learn but eager to teach . In order to know Buddha , human must sincerely accepted that they are same and equal with all living and non-living in this world or beyond .
We are no greater than our own shit , no smaller than the sun . Only if human could sincerely accepted this fact , we could learn Buddhism from countless source or from countless method .
We could learn Buddha from all living or non-living ......a dirt , rubbish , tree , rock , animal , viruses etc .
The key word is .....SAME AND EQUAL.....we are same and equal to all , and all living and non-living is same and equal with us .
Our life is our awareness and our awareness is actually pollutant in Buddha .
We must learn from all to understand our own awareness....all our feeling , emotions , love , compassion in order to eliminate it from us and be free of it .
Only after we free of all emotions of good or bad ....we will be fully awake and in pure energy of emptiness .
We are no greater than our own shit , no smaller than the sun . Only if human could sincerely accepted this fact , we could learn Buddhism from countless source or from countless method .
We could learn Buddha from all living or non-living ......a dirt , rubbish , tree , rock , animal , viruses etc .
The key word is .....SAME AND EQUAL.....we are same and equal to all , and all living and non-living is same and equal with us .
Our life is our awareness and our awareness is actually pollutant in Buddha .
We must learn from all to understand our own awareness....all our feeling , emotions , love , compassion in order to eliminate it from us and be free of it .
Only after we free of all emotions of good or bad ....we will be fully awake and in pure energy of emptiness .
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And Buddhism doesn't teach to eliminate feelings from ourselves. We experience feeling, emotions, and love. Yet we let them come and go without clinging to them. You need not kill your captors to be free of them.
As far as compassion goes, wisdom cultivates compassion. Compassion cultivates wisdom. These further our development toward enlightenment and are also a direct result of enlightenment. These things are not to be eliminated.
Really, 2500 years of human history, which in comparison to the age of the planet (4 billion years) is really just a blink of an eye. Were still evolving, or at least we can evolve. Just try to remain positive and keep your inter-connectedness with others in mind. Bacteria wouldn't have evolved into mitochondria if they didn't realize their commonalities at some point.
The frequency of "Form is Emptiness. Emptiness is Form." baffles me.
So are we claiming that we are equal in form because we are equal in emptiness and vice versa?
Still, my second part stands
Be free from all ego / pride / stop comparing knowledge / and most of all do not associate Buddha with anything or anyone perhaps we could start to learn buddha .
2. You be = to shit if you want to be. But I am more than shit.
To all "teacher" stop teaching and continue to learn Buddha not only among human but from animal , trees , viruses even non-living .
Knowledge is tiny part in search of Buddha so please move on to higher awareness .
Knowledge is vast, and unknowable in expanse. You cannot know everything, but we can try to simplify it down to what matters. That is what we are doing here. Buddhism has always been about self-exploration or perhaps 'not-self-exploration'
You cannot deny that compassion is important. We are to see the world through the two eyes of wisdom and compassion. That means we cannot ignore everybody and everything else. You say to learn from the outside but explore the self. We can learn from the self and explore the outside too. We should explore and learn from everything including ourselves. We should also teach and show compassion and wisdom in action to all.
This human form is considered a great gift because we have been given a form which can practice the Dhamma. Saying that this form is no better may be true, but only when it is appropriate for you to reach enlightenment. There will be a time when we realize equality. For the moment though, we have a significant advantage over lesser-sentient beings and the non-living. The equality (emptiness of all) is definitely something to be realized. You cannot simply 'know' it and be done though. It must be realized!
There is a great divide between understanding and realizing. We're all at different points in the path. Talking about what's down the road 1,000 miles does us no good for seeing clearly what's in front of us now.
Consider "let go of what is unneeded" rather than "stop teaching", because it is important to help ignorance untangle when it arises in and around us. Its only harmful if we adopt teacher as another self.
Buddhism is IMPOSSIBLE to be taught therefor is impossible to teach others as we ourself including Mr Siddharta is and should be continue learning .
what basis do you say that?
Sometimes the Dhamma can be very difficult to understand, because a lot of it relies on our own experiences. It isn't impossible, otherwise there wouldn't be any point. If it was impossible, "Mr Siddharta" would never have been called a "sammasambuddha". He would have just been another "paccekabuddha", or "private Buddha".
Sir , how can we teach Buddhism to an animal ? What makes we so sure we understand BBuddhism more than them or even a piece of dirt ?
A "teacher" in buddhism could only give information on Buddhism history / study or share awareness but impossible to teach awareness .Even Mr Siddharta also could not teach Buddhism to a fly .
I don't think they teach on history. They point out the nature of mind or clarify sutrayana.
The alternative is to ask you why you are speaking. If it can't be taught then you are just flapping your lips.
There are many story about him that no one can confirmed it is only up to us to believe whatever story based on our own awareness .
"knowledge" give ways for human to display ego / pride / statues and we are drawn into a war of knowledge .
To know Buddha , we must see beyond knowledge , beyond ourself , beyond our nature . If we continue current path , I am sure that another 2500 years we still discussing on Buddhism .
Lets free ourself from all ego , accepting others ( living or non-living ) as our source to learn Buddhism .
You might be interested in this article of October 2010.
It talks about the benefits and dangers of the 'Equality and Oneness' movement.
http://buddhawithin.blogspot.com/2010/10/equality-oneness-uncovered.html
Even if everyone "awoke," the human presence is a good thing!
Perhaps due to our current world culture of too much stress on the power of "knowledge" had mis-lead monk role . They seems as referral to Buddhism .
currently in my awareness , I am of the opinion that due to our human culture regards "knowledge" is key for everything and regards the teaching of monk is the referral to Buddha that caused human still not be able to see what Mr Siddharta saw 2500 years ago . We are drawn into war of knowledge and the fact is human became more ego , proud of their knowledge and fail to learn from nature .
In Buddhism , "knowledge" is a tiny part of awareness , we should let go ourself from this war on knowledge and free ourself from all ego / selfishness by accepting ourself SAME and EQUAL to all living and non-living .
If we still think that we are better than a piece of dirt we will NEVER learn Buddha . If we think that we are greater than our own shit we will NEVER know Buddha .
there is manifestations of all buddha qualities..
and also manifestation of all relational qualities as the relationships of all those particles come to play
Mere suffering exists, no sufferer is found;
Actions are, but no actor is ever found;
Nibbāna is, but no being exists that enters it;
The path is, but no traveler is seen.
According to this (Anatta), even "ourselves being same and equal to dirt" is also incorrect yes? Since there is nothing that can be found that can be called "ourselves, myself" to begin with, yes? Didn't the Buddha teach that these things are not ours to begin with?
Indeed in purity , nothing should be there but we all in current world perhap human like me need billions of purification before closer to purity . We have to accept that "knowning" Buddha and be in purity is too-too far even to imagine . I am in a early stage of understanding my emotion so "my or mine" still very much attached to me . Perhaps after billions of purification process of birth/death circle , if I could love the cancer virus that attack my body same and equal love to my daughter , that will be the day I am free of "mine/my".
is of great fruit and great advantage. What is that one unique thing?
It is Awareness by Breathing (Ānāpānasati)! And how, Bhikkhus, is
this Awareness by Breathing trained, developed, cultivated and refined
so that it is of really great fruit and of immense long-term advantage?
Bhikkhus, when a Bhikkhu, who has gone to the forest, or to the root of
a tree, or to an empty hut, sits down cross-legged, having straightened
his body and back, and set up awareness around the nostrils, then just
plain aware of only that itself, he breathes in, and then just solely aware of
only that breathing itself, he breathes out..."
In my current awareness Mr siddharta version of " awake " and "emptiness" is the key of buddhism .
Buddha in my current belief is original source of pure energy and all living and non-living in our world or beyond is un-pure / polluted that evolved / changing shapes / transformed in their own speed / their own ways or method to be pure again , to be Buddha .
No purpose or actions that can "move" me to purity except understanding Buddha and learning to know my pollutants that is my awareness .
Is IMPOSSIBLE for me or anyone to descripe purity as long as I still cry / laugh , have feeling , have desire , ego even compassion . Still I am of the opinion "knowledge" can be limitation to learn or to know Buddha .
In order to on right track in Buddhism , I must free myself of ego / pride of having my "knowledge" , accepting the fact that nothing is different in this world or beyond as everything or anything have their own nature / shapes , accept that all living or non-living is same with me , I am not greater from my own shit . All living or non-living able and ready to show me Buddha and I must learn from all to know my own awareness . Only if I understand my awareness , I could be free of it and closer to purity .
These two world is my source of understanding my life and its destination .
- Be awake - to me is to think beyond everything , to free of all customery human charactor , free of believing in ownself , free of believing own "knowledge" , accept all possibilities , seeing beyond everything .
- emptiness ....is pure without pollutant .