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kowtaaia quote

Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
edited May 2012 in Buddhism Today
Only the continuity of thinking as the psychological phenomenon, considers itself to be something, whether 'Buddhist' or 'Republican' or anything else. There is no such thing as an enlightened Buddhist.

- kowtaaia

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  • zenmystezenmyste Veteran
    There is no such thing as an enlightened Buddhist.

    - kowtaaia
    Brilliant.. And 'for me' its so true.

    I believe that the more we try and have a 'practice', the more it becomes harder to achieve realization.
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    The psychological phenomenon is the continuity of thought and it might practice Buddhism, but it cannot realize truth, because truth is its absence.

    - kowtaaia
  • zenmystezenmyste Veteran
    Whos this?
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    Could you indicate a linked source, please, @Floating_Abu, rather than simply put a name?
    Many thanks.
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    edited May 2012
    Dear fede

    kowtaaia is a friend, and a member of this forum.

    Apologies if I should have put non-official source.
    Please correct as appropriate.

    Best wishes,
    Abu
  • zenmystezenmyste Veteran
    Dear fede

    kowtaaia is a friend, and a member of this forum.

    Apologies if I should have put non-official source.
    Please correct as appropriate.

    Best wishes,
    Abu
    you forget 'dear zenmyste' aswell. Seen as I asked who this was first. You should have answered me. (Just because I'm not a moderator, you should have still acknowledged me)

    I forgive though! :-)
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    I don't need your forgiveness, @zenmyste, with thanks.
  • zenmystezenmyste Veteran
    I don't need your forgiveness, @zenmyste, with thanks.
    I didn't say you did need it.

    But I still forgive you anyway!
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    Be well, dear friend.
  • zenmystezenmyste Veteran
    edited May 2012
    Be well, dear friend.
    You too.

    (and no killing, even if your angry)

    not that you would of course. i just feel i have to start remind you buddhists now.

    because you all seem to think that being 'angry' is the same thing as KILLING someone.

    OK, if you say so!
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    Then perhaps Kowtaaia can let us have the source and origin, if indeed they are in turn, quotations he has taken....
    We have all made wise statements and we have all made foolish ones also.
    to isolate a member for special mention seems a little strange....

    why do you find such material worthy of mention, as a curiosity?
  • RichardHRichardH Veteran
    edited May 2012
    Only the continuity of thinking as the psychological phenomenon, considers itself to be something, whether 'Buddhist' or 'Republican' or anything else. There is no such thing as an enlightened Buddhist.

    - kowtaaia
    Someone (kowtaaia) who thinks himself enlightened, thinks himself not Buddhist or any other category. What you lose in the peanuts, you make up in the popcorn.

  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    Then perhaps Kowtaaia can let us have the source and origin, if indeed they are in turn, quotations he has taken....
    We have all made wise statements and we have all made foolish ones also.
    to isolate a member for special mention seems a little strange....

    why do you find such material worthy of mention, as a curiosity?
    Dear federica

    Because they strike me as true.

    Namaste.
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    Only the continuity of thinking as the psychological phenomenon, considers itself to be something, whether 'Buddhist' or 'Republican' or anything else. There is no such thing as an enlightened Buddhist.

    - kowtaaia
    Someone (kowtaaia) who thinks himself enlightened, thinks himself not Buddhist or any other category. What you lose in the peanuts, you make up in the popcorn.

    Come again?

    I doubt kowtaaia thinks himself enlightened, he is pointing. That is all he has ever done.

    Best wishes,
    Abu
  • kowtaaiakowtaaia
    It wasn't a quote; just a statement of the obvious. There's no point in responding to Richards silliness.
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    This is the strangest thread... :scratch:
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