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My Don'ts And Dos
IdleChater
USA Veteran
What I don't do:
- I don't, through personal effort, try to follow the 8FP
- I don't, though personal effort, try to keep Precepts
What I do:
- Meditate. Shamatha, to be precise.
From discussion with senior students, mentors, and respected teachers, I've come to believe:
- to make a personal effort to do these things, introduces an element of self that is counterproductive to realization
- The Buddha, according to tradition, didn't "keep" precepts or the 8 elements of the path. He meditated.
- Shamatha has been taught to me as a "complete practice", and will lead to enlightenment.
- As enlightenment approaches, the 8FP and Precepts will fall into line and manifest as a result, naturally, and not by any personal effort on my part.
- Enlightenment and Buddhahood is the result of meditation.
Your mileage may differ and I respect that. This is just what I do and don't do
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From what I gather, practicing the Dharma is a 24/7/365 thing which permeates every aspect of one's life....On and off the cushion....
A teacher once said ( I can't remember who) "The real meditation begins when you leave the cushion"...
In a sense, time spent on the cushion can be likened to priming one's mind to deal with things to come off the cushion .... putting it in go with the flow mode, so to speak...
That seems like a fair approach to the Dhamma, I heard it said once that all of the Buddhas teachings could be found from just one.
I don't worry about formality.
While I do take life seriously, I don't take myself all that seriously
I do allow the world to do whatever it will do
I do recognize (a) I am the center of my world and (b) I am not the center of the world
I do get comfortable
I do let the lesser (monkey) mind go where it will
I don't pay attention to the monkey mind
I do give myself permission to laugh at myself and be happy
HOORAY!
I does that shouting. 🤓
Great OP (original post) and comments 😌🙏🦞
I very much value continual strain-less meditation that @Shoshin1 mentions.
I totally appreciate the value of personal do and do more of (rather than any daunts/don'ts)
I am never comfortable, until everyone is. I must be one of them their Boddhisattvians …
I take refuge/protection/inspiration in the three jewels: Me, myself and I and I
Or as they are sometimes known: Buddha, dharma and sangha … 🥳🤫🫠
"I am never comfortable, until everyone is. I must be one of them their Boddhisattvians."
Bodhissatvas are quite comfortable in their being.
Bodhissatvas are are quite uncomfortable as unnecessary suffdering exists in the world.
that said, be most comfortably uncomfortable.
Peace to all
@IdleChater
What is Shamatha?
i did google search, shamatha is calm abiding? in zen peace is clear abiding ,seeing the nature of a thing. in tantra i use object as meditation to find the same nature same to our S. A. M,(effectionally..antha) i do Sam oneness. doing that happyness sometimes bliss emerge her empty nature.
@IdleChater
curious whats your religious flavor?
my friend i too love my sit session. how's your zen just be through the 4 season?
Karma Kagyu
@IdleChater
thank you. i consider the vajriana path wonderful in its ownright. if zen is a jet, vajri is a rocket to space.
Don't's I don't have any of those.
Do's
song,how romantic....serendepity is wonderful.
You're welcome. I guess ...
That's nice. ;-)
Such a knack for trivializing the important, or momentous.
Humour is important, and shouldn’t be underestimated. The Zen masters knew this very well.
Well, I don't think our dear friend is a Zen Master, or anything approaching it. He's a ...... lobster. Some people like his sense of humor. It's a bit contrived. I don't think that's a bad thing, I don't really care. But I don't find it funny.
Well, the first training you must undertake, is to write the word Vajrayana 108 times.
Consider this something like Marpa telling Milarepa to build a tower.
The online Zen Master is everywhere, hiding in all kinds of disguises, just waiting to pop out from behind some seemingly-absurd text to surprise the unwary. May your path be lightened by his presence this morning…
consider it done in one mathacalculus gibberish that leads to 108 times written in my heart:[E^3]=MC^2: Vajia(h.h. QUAN YIN)[E^3]YA-(na(Ye))/0^108=1+0+8 leads to 9=69 tantra.
VaJia is pussy power. ,h.h. is her holiness QY,= oneness...simple math of the relation S.A.M...Source Animated Matter of the heart
Oh.. extra dessert homework for me: E^3=MC^2..is Mu. TY MAA DHARMA DIAMOND ROSE Path. So DDD=Shakti grace.
Love pussy power the lioness roar of Tara. and ddd tits is sexy and nourishing to man baby pauly. zen nonsense. playing with my tara in my heart.
vaj-ray-ana is nice. light and rain is the rhyme and reason mu=um. mindless idle chater to i making. love the diamond heart of tara earth.
The formality of "Keeping the Precepts" does not make one a true practitioner. The most famous example is, of course, Devadatta, who was said to "Out Precept" the Buddha. He in fact, worked incessantly to destroy the Buddha's sangha.
Like so many others:
I dos a lot
I dont's a lot
I stumbles a lot
I gets up
I dusts myself off
What a view from this mountain top
What's that?
Another mountain?
Let's go!
Keep an open mind
Keep an open heart
Presevere
i will play. my dont affects my do...my therazen way.
this 5 dont give benefit to my 5 do.
1. i do honestly makes my neighbor feel easeful.
2. i do non stealing makes my neighbor respect me, and lend their property effortlessly.trust is result of non stealing.
3. i do friendlyness, respect my neighbor as self. non killing leads to safe place.
4. i do wise consumption. buy weed and alchol and consume home. no drinking and driving.
5. i do sexual equality. i respect my neighbor sexuality gay or straight and they are soulfully their natural self knowing he woundnt do anything unbecoming.
my extra do,
i do samatha meditation, calm abiding through breath.i do insight body medition. i do natural awareness meditation. i do jhana medition absorbtion.
now i do natural be and do in me in you. ty buddhist training does pay to give your heart desire.
bodhi principle, be smart with desire.
@IdleChater
i wish you well. we thank our fourth set giving a systematic system eliminate unsatisfactly mental states, 4 noble truth and 8fold method to be his nature, happy and free.
really sidhartha dharma is great. he really walk the talk in 4 noble truth and 8 fold method. it is all compassing to make us a better humane person.
now those desire to be human bodhisatva...assist the 4th buddha,
know the heart suttra. feel the spirit of the letter.
the heart suttra, is called the home of wisdom the pathless path. nirvana is storehouse of wisdom.
but i vow to be a layperson, a citizen son earth. im a lay disciple of earth store bodhisattva who serve god earth career creating life aboundently.
last thoughts in this thread, east and west can serve each other. peace of mind is ours when we see same hope and fears together on earth.
extra anotation who wish to be a human do bodhisatva(i will join laybodhi) practice,;)
Sam-bodhi (our mother the Dharmakya)
6 Sambodhi practice:
1.Generosity
2.Ethical Discipline
3.Patience
4.Enthusiastic effort(motivational Love)
5.Concentration (zen meditation)
6.Wisdom.
heart mantra:gone,gone, awaken to samsara-nirvana,be so....
Accepting the middle way of Shaki, we be the dharma (empty)in the dharma(full) i making wise activity. doesnt matter if its call Dao or Dharma it still smell beautifull in a flower or in your sweaty armpit.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6JnGBs88sL0&list=RD6JnGBs88sL0&index=1
our sunyata,holy space sung by shiva and our dharma-key-awe SamTara
you see this universe maa S.A.M gave to my aunt tara and uncle Shiva to manage.the butterfly house is lawfull in evolving souls from caterpillar to butterfly inocent and free.
my house, gave judgement to me to acess this one fold universe. everything the dao-dharma remain the same, from birth and death in this universe. the son of eternal love knows my home, knows his hindubuddhist family....and knows my true love earth. my mom is not fiction, but truth stranger than fiction.
ty "God" empty yourself and see and see the son of the universe, the dream maker. doggy paulyso.
time for work,happy spring day
sincerly crazy should be commited paulyso, that the beauty of my buddha universe mom gave to me, freewill.
time for a digital detox, internet is addictive. my last digital dream song. this is Sam Liberty Nou,my mom the law giver to the universe and hear on earth,in Celine Dion...a song love, metta congore all. with heart all citizen creatures can be happy and free, last sincere statement eye engineered this universe and all S.a.m objects from stars to dandilions flower to searve all in all sunjata.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=T6wbugWrfLU
have a great life and death celebration,all on earth is my legasy, my dogstar project,
love and mercy in us all,namaste'.
I keep coming back to this original post. I find it very helpful.
I think that even if the precepts and Eightfold Path DIDN'T fall in line naturally from these do's and don'ts, whatever DID fall in line would be very worthwhile.
I agree with you @Ren_in_black it is a very helpful post, a good pointer.