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Insight for the day
Jeroen
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlands Veteran
My insight for the day, on impermanence and no-self: when we die our atoms, the parts that make up our entire body, get recycled and reused by the environment. They have only temporarily been yours, after all they came from somewhere else and will go to somewhere else.
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My Insight for the day: I've held this job for longer than any other actual paid job I've ever had, and at one point, one day, I will have to hang up my hat, call it quits, and retire.
(Unless I'm fired, or made redundant first.)
Then, I'll commit a crime and go to jail.
Cushy!
(I wonder if I'll get a gold watch from @Brian & @Linc.....)
Even when awake one's life unfolds like a dream...For things are never quite what they seem...
I'm reminded of something Carl Sagan said. Not quite an opposing view.
"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it but the way those atoms are put together."
This also makes want to chime in that really, it's all the same place. All borders are illusion.
Self awareness is to distinguish between the universe and the self but that implies a border where there are only bridges.
Until you experience it first-hand, it is only an idea.
Updating the incites:
laughing ?
https://fractalenlightenment.com/26323/spirituality/if-you-meet-the-buddha-on-the-road-kill-him
No updates required?
https://www.realbuddhaquotes.com
Indeed. But it is also so that along with the atoms that make up our body, also everything conditioned by the atoms is part of the borrowed structure. Our minds are shaped by and emerge from the body and it’s interactions with the world over time. The learning to see, hear, walk, type, poop, it is all the body — that temporarily-ours collection of particles. All the memes that we learn from the world also. What is left? Perhaps consciousness, the watcher, but even that undergoes change when we sleep, and is not as robust as we would like to believe.
It seems to me that desire comes from the past, from what you have known. It is basically a repetition, perhaps of a daydream or an illusion.
I wonder what that would say about instinct.
Nothing really matters (phenomena arise and depart) ....but the illusion persists ....
Instinct is part of the body, it comes out when triggered. Perhaps it is something more of the present, such as a sexual instinct. But even that tends to draw on what we know of sex, a young teenage boys sexual instinct is not the same as that of a more mature man, and both leave a daydream or illusion behind.
I find intuition a much more interesting faculty...
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zen minamalist?:see,what?!,ahh...be.(dance --tango--with karma)
so interesting, > @Shoshin said:
another way of saying,emptiness = form ; form = emptiness .or einstien science "buddhist":energy=matter ; matter =energy.so emptiness can correlate to energy --the potential to do work(karma). and form can correlate to matter--the temporal(temporary)work of energy.so it's all karma?!
leading to a dao-zen insight:fighting karma leads to difficulty ;working with karma leads to easy way.is that the way?
so we do.experience for ourselves.totally agree with you,foiblefull.
Indeed.
The point of bodhisattva resonance and sila is to turn theory into practice/being/experience.
We all want to be Happy, content, at ease. How?
One way is extreme understanding or insight into others real needs, rather than their unskilful habits and tendency towards unhelpful, unkind or useless behaviour.
Insight is obvious. Wisdom is everywhere. Be kind. Simple.
Are ideas valuable? It reminds me of a story... I have heard that the oracle of Delphi once declared that Socrates was the wisest man of the land. This happened not long after Socrates told his followers that “I know nothing.”
It seems that ‘being’ is more important than ‘knowing’. Still even this idea proves that sometimes the right idea at the right time can be valuable in helping you to let go of what you don’t need
Maybe I'm misreading this and you're expressing something else, but what comes to my mind in response is...
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.” ― Albert Einstein
My take is that Socrates was expressing intellectual humility. The more we understand, the more we realize that there is so much more that we don't know.
I think it depends on what you mean by knowing. In the west we generally define knowledge as a purely intellectual phenomenon. I think in the eastern wisdom traditions knowledge is thought of more as what the west might call procedural knowledge, or what we know deeply or intuitively. Ask anyone on the street whether they will die and almost everyone will know that it is true. Ask someone who has survived a near fatal accident or illness if they will die and the knowledge that they have is very different.
I thought on reading the story that Socrates was expressing the difficulty of proof. It is easy to say something and consider it as your opinion, very much harder to come out with something and state that you categorically know it to be true. But perhaps the story has different meanings.
It has a different quality because of the experience that they have been through, that is certain. But I think that brings about more of a change in your being than just in the knowledge you hold.
That sounds good, I think that is also an expression of intellectual humility.
Maybe this is primarily a semantic disagreement, I think that is essentially what I was trying to say, but I was saying that knowledge isn't limited to the intellect. I think one of the key pieces of wisdom I received from my time in the scholarly Gelug school of TB was that the learning and knowledge acquired isn't worth much on the spiritual path if it only remains at an intellectual level, that we need to take it into our hearts, or being, and allow it to change us. But also that having a "correct" set of intellectual beliefs matters a lot since that is what we will be taking into our being.
In the sense you perhaps mean it yes. In Christian terms, Grace is the enactment of Gnosis. In Buddhist terms we might say knowing is dualistic and being is unitary. We can go beyond knowing but going beyond being ...
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
Zen Saying
https://buddhistinsights.com
Tonglen!
When I am feeling shitty say to myself “May the suffering of all beings feeling the same way as me ripen upon me now!!!!” Focus on this.
Relief (even if only temporary) - helps increase compassion too.
Qapla'!
My hovercraft is full of eels
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
Cause I can
Poop I just realised that's on the link @lobster sent feels slightly deflated
Oh well
Hmm.... or to put another way...
Ok I just laughed too loudly and for too long at my desk at work
Iz plan! ???
I quite often meditate in the dark. Laugh for no real reason (without a phone zombie twatter or farcebook account) and have insights of no real value except to me
https://m.wikihow.com/Practice-Darkness-Meditation
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
Longchenpa
Long live Lonchenpa! ... what you mean she died ... the laughing still resonates ...
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I’m glad that my insight thread has served its ultimate purpose with a series of poo jokes.
And on that line of thought...
Had you considered that:
And other poo-related dharma. You know we could make a joke book called the Dharma of Poo.
I don't see why not, "The Tao of Pooh" already exists....
Holy crap....are you saying that poo jokes stink ?
Change is inevitable ...Suffering is optional
There's a choice....
Just because you love someone, it doesn't make them a good person.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Satan
Ay caramba! Hooray! I luvs a good plan ...
Hail Atheism Satan Baby Jesus No One
Like the rainbow bridge to Valhalla Purelands ...
We are the bridge. The constructs are important, both in building and breaking. Long live Odin and Thor but not Thanos who is a naughty boy ...
In a sense all is Self/attention/awareness. It is why we have bridges. Imagine a border. Dissolves into rainbows and Light ...
Lovely day yesterday
and now back to the insight of today ...
Here’s one: imagination is Mara’s playground. By imagining things you can create trouble for yourself which is totally surplus to requirements. You often run over areas of healthy, steady thought and insight, and go way to far in your imaginings, or create situations for yourself where you are activating unbeneficial feelings and emotions.
Patience is a virtue
Compassion is a must
~The Heart of Dharma Practice~
other boxing tips ...
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/11-ways-to-think-outside-the-box.html
In times of personal crises REMEMBER/BECOME your practice...
In times of no personal crises REMEMBER/BECOME your practice...
Acceptance is a surprisingly good answer for fear, because there is very little to be truly afraid of. Don’t let your imagination run away with you, remember to use it only to celebrate.
Working with children, we try to foster wonderful imaginations in them, believing it to enrich their lives and engender creative thinking in whatever field they choose to enter as adults.
Is imagination also the practitioner’s playground?
It’s a fair question. Children are brought up with a mix of truth and imagination, and you have to wonder whether the imagination part of it is that useful to them. What if we only told them true stories? Surely there’s enough that is humorous and true in the world to fill a child’s mind?
I recall my time in an anthroposophical school (Waldorf in the States) when I was young, and we were taught all kinds of mythological stories about for example St George and the Dragon. It was colourful and fun to paint, but not exactly useful knowledge.
It depends where you are. I would suggest that most early meditation is largely imagination running riot.
Attentive awareness makes us aware of this gibbering idiot (speaking for myself). As we calm/ground ourselves in a more focussed or gently concentrated meditation, we are not overwhelmed or dozified and entranced by the minds butterflying nature.
Now in some dharma, the child/beginner mind can enter a playground ...
Maybe look for a fire naga and get it to roast and eat its tale Ouroboros style ...
Better still imagine interacting with a personification of a Dharma Naga Dragon Master, Manjushri, Bodhidharma, Kwan Yin or Durgha ...
Wherever I go, there I am
There's no running away from the/your self
of course scepticism is welcome,im doing tantric buddhism or dao support without knowing it.but the more members give information about vajria buddhism,now i know im in unity with my diety woman who is.she already gave me symbolism of buddha and pet dragon.it just means,to me they are "transcendal" sublime.
i remember a story about confucious saying to lao-tzu, something like, you have the power of heaven riding the dragon.interesting huh? lao is a buddha ,backed by dao.
on another note,don't do tibetan buddhism without a guru.,as some tibetan member practitioner suggest.this layperson is still going to do daozen as a lifestyle.
Do you mean teacher? There is a Tibetan Buddhist site I've attended near my parents' place and they have a monk in residence and teachers. But no guru. They are well established and well respected. And their classes are great.
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