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Spiritual practice
misecmisc1
I am a HinduIndia Veteran
It seems to me that the essence of spiritual practice is - don't hold on to anything or let go of everything.
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"Sabbe dhamma nalam abhinivesaya" "Nothing whatsoever should be clung to"
@Shoshin sums it up, @misecmisc1 ...
every day I disapoint myself with some silly desire or other, and when I feel sad or bad about it, then I think... ogh! there's that dhukka again!
Sometimes I feel there is a point that is overlooked. Contentment and equanimity can be the result as well as how to practice. I feel the same way with "letting go", it can be a result as well as the practice itself. What am I missing?
@namarupa I don't think you're missing anything!
Thank you.
Its making more sense now. Buddhist practice is the most wise and benevolent investment. You get what you put in if not more. 
Remember - non-attachment does not mean 'giving up on life', it is in fact, giving up our ignorant attachment to the permanency of emotions, good/bad vibe, the perfect fish ice cream with anchiovy flakes
(I iz so badly attached to lobsterian tendencies) Donald 'Hilary' Trumpet for Emperor of Mexico etc.
Intense living is OK for us lay Buddhists BUT so much more to not have a cow over ...
Quite right! Must finish off that ice-cream, no point in hanging on to it.
^^^ may be the only thing between you and Nirvana is ice-cream - please let go of that ice-cream - enough of reading the texts, i will like to have a one-on-one discussion between me being a deluded confused being and you being an Enlightened being.
I will ask the Dairy Lama if he can visit, but it will depend on his shifts at Tesco. He may give a teaching on the Tantric Trinity of Neapolitan, or perhaps on the Pristine Purity of vanilla ice-cream.
@SpinyNorman is Neapolitan a good symbolic ice cream for the middle way?
Yes, that is certainly one interpretation, the Pristine Purity of vanilla is the middle one of the three in the Tantric Trinity of Neapolitan. As the Dairy Lama has said: "Good on the left, good on the right, but even better in the middle."
Ever had a Neapolitan milk shake? Its like eating three different ice creams with one hand.
Ah, the merging of the Tantric Trinity. That sounds like an advanced practice, I shall ask the Dairy Lama when he is next on shift at Tesco.