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Found. Ask me something
I think I've found it finally.
After a bunch of theory and practice.
Practice is hard-work!!!...
I went out of my way on many occasions.
Now though, there are very few holes left in my net.
I feel like with the formula I've developed.... it explains most things..
I can be content. Even with dying.
Now I only struggle with a few trivial things, certain addictions, aversions, and predispositions,
Recently, believe it or not, I've been having 'dreams' that help me understand. Perhaps they are visions of past lives..
I know why I self medicate.
I know why I lust, in certain ways, and not in other ways..etc..
I know why I like the rain..
I know why I don't remember
And finally I know what I have to do.
Anyway so now I'd like to test my wisdom and knowledge, ask me something!
I want to be a teacher eventually, so I have to develop this.
After a bunch of theory and practice.
Practice is hard-work!!!...
I went out of my way on many occasions.
Now though, there are very few holes left in my net.
I feel like with the formula I've developed.... it explains most things..
I can be content. Even with dying.
Now I only struggle with a few trivial things, certain addictions, aversions, and predispositions,
Recently, believe it or not, I've been having 'dreams' that help me understand. Perhaps they are visions of past lives..
I know why I self medicate.
I know why I lust, in certain ways, and not in other ways..etc..
I know why I like the rain..
I know why I don't remember
And finally I know what I have to do.
Anyway so now I'd like to test my wisdom and knowledge, ask me something!
I want to be a teacher eventually, so I have to develop this.
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With warmth,
Matt
Why is it that my only faculty for if I make progress is if it feels good (liberating), but yet there are so many things such as a nice beer that feel good but they cause problems and end up making me feel craving and hard to stop?
Glad you are around with your funny posts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUMWy4hqAg
what are you?
what is life?
what is the purpose of life?
How to live?
What is a thought?
To the degree that your learning and understanding has actually changed your behaviors ... to that degree have you learned.
You see it in Buddhism ... someone you know practices for years and then one day your see they've made a permanent, noticeable change. And then some long time later ... again ... This is how you know when a Buddhist is learning!
FWIW I think you should be careful. Mistaking knowledge for knowing/understanding is a very common mistake.
Gassho.
Any peace co-existing with afflicted emotions is a worldly peace and not the transcendental peace of the aryas. Enlightenment is a gradual process and even before the first moment of enlightenment there are many stages of removing obscuration. The real test of progress is how much one's sense of egotism decreases. But even though one is a better person, experiencing the bliss and peace of the path, there still will be times when your afflictive emotions ambush you.
So peace, or reduction (either through appearance or strength) of (so-called) afflictive emotions, is not yet the transcendental peace of the aryas? Ahh sh*t,
On another note, egotism -- well if one sees, doesn't it then translate that one is given the opportunity to not play out the wares of the ego? This translates to reduction of sense of egotism does it not? Or am I speaking a different language?
Ambush, comprende, that can be painful when one is peaceful and happy for a while I presume _/\_ Thanks for the dialog.
what's the quotient of nonduality when undertaken solely alone and how does it function without a breastfeeding? how did dorothy get out of the wizard's oz in zen terms and how does she get back? does emptiness account for the arising of somethingness when everything else is left aside or is it just something that leaves a smell unbidden? what is the nature of the mind body duality? are there thresholds of coincidence or are they left purely to chance in the heaven of earth's arms?
How does your outlook on life accord with the Buddhist teachings? Do you mean that you mostly understand the concepts that the Buddha taught and that (for you) the functioning of reality/the-universe is within the "net" of your understanding? That is their intent in part, to be a representation of how reality works; their other intent is of course to lead us to seeing the truth for ourselves.
I'm not so sure that's what you're saying though, so would you mind elaborating?
I agree with Jinzang. You've probably heard that "there are no enlightened people, only enlightened actions" or something like that, and the only way to truly tell if you are advancing is to see whether you have changed the way you are living and responding to the world.
and
who is upekka?
Asked already....
or Hondahita?
really federica, now i can access as upekka there is no need to Hondahita to be present anymore
can you cancel it?
or
tell me what i have to do please
thanks
Nil carborundum illegitimi, TheFound.
So glad you are experiencing comfort and encouragement from your practice. This experience is something to note in memory ("mark it with a white stone" as the Greeks said) and to be able to access when discouragement comes along. The real use of these pleasant times comes when we no longer feel like going on because it becomes painful or appears not to be "working" or just plain irrelevant.
It is also quite normal to want to share what we acquire. Generosity is part of the new mindset you are building. Remember this then, too: the best teachers is the diligent student. My finest teachers were profoundly aware that they still had much to learn.
And when the hard times come - and they will - KBO.
That is what I have also seen, both in terms of the value of a Sangha and Teacher, and the dangers of practicing in isolation.
I would like to add that all the monks I have personally known have had this big "thing" for modesty and for not blowing their own horn. Shades of emptiness, I think!