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we are missing something... huge
(kind of a SUPER ridiculously long post of..rants...theories....thoughts...questions..I haven't been thinking enough recently so it's all going to come out now...)
We are missing something... huge
I'm sure of it..
We are all ignorant of something....EPIC
Some epic perspective...or some epic way to understand things..perceive things....
Somehow I feel like knowing just Buddhism is like incomplete ......to the big picture.....it's like a pencil!!
The page and what's drawn on it are more important...but you have to start with the pencil...maybe I should stop worrying about Buddhism and focus more on the...big picture...
what is the purpose of Buddhism...to end suffering...neh?
what then ?! we don't suffer...that's great (no sarcasm!)....but..what's the final result after eons and eons .... can there be a complete end to suffering? can we actually 'win' the 'good fight'....what then...we all exist as a wonderful sufferingless state of energy or ooze or something:eek:? as long as there are rebirths there will inevitably be suffering right?
It's probably certainly impossible to end ALL suffering, according to the theory of "countless" sentient beings....
Bodhisatvas will never finish!!!!:( but they will try anyway.. forever and ever and ever....thats freakin sad kind of:(....
So if all rebirths end...we end....and like i said exist as what energy? non-existent potentials?....paradox?!? or...don't exist?
I think I might rebel from that.....
anyway though..:crazy:
Have I had a Buddha mind or...rather shouldn't say "have" right? I don't have anything...I'm not anything..., has Buddha mind been there/here since beginning-less time?!
There's got to be a way to understand or experience this paradox ridden material.... There's got to be other stuff we aren't seeing...
It sucks too much to just die and die and die and die and die,
and so what if you realize that you are enlightened one day....and cannot be touched by the concept of death, you can't be gripped by suffering...etc etc..no fun!.
Maybe Buddha had it wrong, maybe it's all a big joke or..game....
we should play it all like a game of cards.......
If we believe in rebirth!!!, we should play it all like:
Suffer a disease? it sucks sure... you got dealt a bad hand
(you are the sum of the hand)
but you know eventually you'll die and can just draw a new hand next time...different cards will play the game this time around. it won't exactly be YOU anymore but......hmmmm
Maybe it's the score that matters, maybe WHAT WE really ARE is:
That collective score that each hand makes for the buddha-mind that is playing it...."playing you!" :crazy::crazy:
Isn't that what makes the game interesting...the fact you can lose, get bad hands, good hands... Buddhism is maybe like the way to get less bad hands... but if we eliminate bad hands we won't be playing the game anymore...it would be lame....
or something I dunno wtf I'm talking about but now im strangling my cat screaming "WHAT ARE YOU!!?!?!?" and "WHAT AM I?!!?"
according to my new theory, he's a hand being played by something (interesting to know what exactly?) ...the universe?
and I'm a different hand (from the same deck)...maybe with a few better cards...and we are being put into play for the past 24 years, and 10 years...our cards depended on our "karma" which has to do with the "score" and how our "player(s)" played the last hands....
I think it may be something like this...just don't get too caught up in the analogy...
people/hands that are crap hands, suffer of course they'd rather be good hands..but...that's a delusion of crap hands....me for example, i have a pretty good hand..but i'm playing it pretty badly...I can tell my player isn't having fun..and the other hands i play around ...I kinda bring them down....lol if that's even a statement I can make..
maybe at the time of my death/reshuffle...I will remember...i'm just a hand and I can DIE/reshuffle WELL.. if I know I helped the score of the player..
(or maybe i know I don't actually DIE, i just transform/reshuffle).
so in conclusion, there is no WINNING at the end...even if you accumulate all the good karma/points for your player/universe/buddha-mind...the game will never end,. but I guess the bodhisattvas realize this...and since they know there is never an END to the game, at least everyone should have good cards along the way...
lol so instead of a god saying "let there be light!!"
it was a celestial card game host saying "Shuffle up and deal!!!"
i don't know maybe I'm a few cards short of a full deck....
We are missing something... huge
I'm sure of it..
We are all ignorant of something....EPIC
Some epic perspective...or some epic way to understand things..perceive things....
Somehow I feel like knowing just Buddhism is like incomplete ......to the big picture.....it's like a pencil!!
The page and what's drawn on it are more important...but you have to start with the pencil...maybe I should stop worrying about Buddhism and focus more on the...big picture...
what is the purpose of Buddhism...to end suffering...neh?
what then ?! we don't suffer...that's great (no sarcasm!)....but..what's the final result after eons and eons .... can there be a complete end to suffering? can we actually 'win' the 'good fight'....what then...we all exist as a wonderful sufferingless state of energy or ooze or something:eek:? as long as there are rebirths there will inevitably be suffering right?
It's probably certainly impossible to end ALL suffering, according to the theory of "countless" sentient beings....
Bodhisatvas will never finish!!!!:( but they will try anyway.. forever and ever and ever....thats freakin sad kind of:(....
So if all rebirths end...we end....and like i said exist as what energy? non-existent potentials?....paradox?!? or...don't exist?
I think I might rebel from that.....
anyway though..:crazy:
Have I had a Buddha mind or...rather shouldn't say "have" right? I don't have anything...I'm not anything..., has Buddha mind been there/here since beginning-less time?!
There's got to be a way to understand or experience this paradox ridden material.... There's got to be other stuff we aren't seeing...
It sucks too much to just die and die and die and die and die,
and so what if you realize that you are enlightened one day....and cannot be touched by the concept of death, you can't be gripped by suffering...etc etc..no fun!.
Maybe Buddha had it wrong, maybe it's all a big joke or..game....
we should play it all like a game of cards.......
If we believe in rebirth!!!, we should play it all like:
Suffer a disease? it sucks sure... you got dealt a bad hand
(you are the sum of the hand)
but you know eventually you'll die and can just draw a new hand next time...different cards will play the game this time around. it won't exactly be YOU anymore but......hmmmm
Maybe it's the score that matters, maybe WHAT WE really ARE is:
That collective score that each hand makes for the buddha-mind that is playing it...."playing you!" :crazy::crazy:
Isn't that what makes the game interesting...the fact you can lose, get bad hands, good hands... Buddhism is maybe like the way to get less bad hands... but if we eliminate bad hands we won't be playing the game anymore...it would be lame....
or something I dunno wtf I'm talking about but now im strangling my cat screaming "WHAT ARE YOU!!?!?!?" and "WHAT AM I?!!?"
according to my new theory, he's a hand being played by something (interesting to know what exactly?) ...the universe?
and I'm a different hand (from the same deck)...maybe with a few better cards...and we are being put into play for the past 24 years, and 10 years...our cards depended on our "karma" which has to do with the "score" and how our "player(s)" played the last hands....
I think it may be something like this...just don't get too caught up in the analogy...
people/hands that are crap hands, suffer of course they'd rather be good hands..but...that's a delusion of crap hands....me for example, i have a pretty good hand..but i'm playing it pretty badly...I can tell my player isn't having fun..and the other hands i play around ...I kinda bring them down....lol if that's even a statement I can make..
maybe at the time of my death/reshuffle...I will remember...i'm just a hand and I can DIE/reshuffle WELL.. if I know I helped the score of the player..
(or maybe i know I don't actually DIE, i just transform/reshuffle).
so in conclusion, there is no WINNING at the end...even if you accumulate all the good karma/points for your player/universe/buddha-mind...the game will never end,. but I guess the bodhisattvas realize this...and since they know there is never an END to the game, at least everyone should have good cards along the way...
lol so instead of a god saying "let there be light!!"
it was a celestial card game host saying "Shuffle up and deal!!!"
i don't know maybe I'm a few cards short of a full deck....
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Buddha didn't have it wrong, he knew it was a game. Why do you think he smiles? Your problem is you seem to believe you are a single hand, when in fact you are the whole deck. There are no "bad" hands. There's no winning or losing. The point of a giraffe isn't to be a good giraffe, it's just to be a giraffe. Do you see?
I don't know about reincarnation, or what happens when we die. Those sorts of things require belief, and belief is a very weak currency. What I know, however, is that I am a living component of a Very Big Thing; the universe, God, nature, the force, whatever you want to call it. I don't know what it is, where it comes from, or why it even exists. I'm not particularly concerned by these questions, although I find them enjoyable to ponder, from time to time. I don't understand the meaning of life any more than a bacteria in my large intestine knows how to peel a banana. It certainly is an interesting ride, though, isn't it?
“Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.” ~ Buddha
also how can you not be concerned with these things?!
it does look like we are a small part of, or ARE a huge super system..
knowing more about these things could seriously help to overall condition of things...and.....stuff....
To just "be" is kind of lazy..neh?
we took millions of years to evolve a mind and body that can last 100 years!
Unlike bacteria or our giraffe friend, don't you feel that with these advantages we can do more than just be?
I just got a flash of some Christian idea that God created us in his image....I don't believe in that obviously but, what if the universe has a ...
I want to say "mind" or something like that, or design....a grand scheme or something.. I want to know about it!
we are all family after all... the universe and us...don't you want to know more about your long lost father/mother, your brothers and sisters...?!
I'm sure they'd would hate it , if we just ignored them, while they are all around us everyday waiting for us to open our eyes and meet them.
Right now, yes. So does the belief in no rebirth. The possibility of science proving rebirth is true someday does not mean that it does not require faith right now. If/when science proves it to be untrue, would you stop practising the Dhamma? Why or why not?
Then why is it so hard? It's easy for us to form complicated ideas and theories. It's difficult to strip those processes away and experience things in their true nature. Much nicer than speculation and projecting our personal biases, opinions, and ideas onto everything else.
If you want to know about it so bad, that's ok. But you won't find it benefits your path in Buddhism at all, and you won't find answers in Buddhism. Ask yourself what would happen if you found the answers to all of these questions. Would it change anything? Would the Dhamma be any less significant?
Perspective and perception are inherently biased, and always will be.
You need to relax and meditate. :P
Just an expansion on o0Mundus-Vult-Decipi0o's post...
Perhaps consider, what is the purpose of Buddhism? What does it really ask you to do in your daily life?
Then ask yourself does it change whether you believe in reincarnation? Does it change if you believe in Heaven/Hell? Does it change if you believe in nihilism?
Regards,
V
I personally feel that we should question everything. After all, we are not trying to reach some trance state of ignorant comfort.
But having said this, I also believe that we shouldn’t take constant flights of fancy into our heads, and our imagination, but rather we should touch down upon the earth and gain balance. Otherwise, we will end up with all smoke and mirrors.
In order to gain the wisdom of the Buddha, we need to be constantly watchful, and let what we see teach us. For surely, all suffering takes its root in ignorance.
Keep truck/n,
S9