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problems.

sufferersufferer
edited September 2005 in Buddhism Basics
okay lets try this again,

this thread is about the eightfold path, and how we apply it to our lives, you can talk about your problems with school of whatever.

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  • treetop_buddhatreetop_buddha Explorer
    edited September 2005
    i having a problem with thoughts i cant get the bad ones out of my head
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited September 2005
    Why or how would you define them as 'bad'...?
  • buddhafootbuddhafoot Veteran
    edited September 2005
    Jah.

    Kom und have da seat on zee couch...
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited September 2005
    The Buddha's first and last teaching was on the Arya ashtangika marga ("the noble path of eight limbs") and, I suppose, it is the one constant at the heart of all the Buddhisms.

    Although each 'limb' of the Path contains all the others, it is one of Buddhism's great strengths that highly complex structures and processes are broken down into their component parts.

    Traditionally, we are invited to start with Samyag drishti (Right View) and it has lways made sense to me that this is where we start. Sight is just so important to us. I was almost blind until I was 6 and can still remember the joy of discovering a world of sharp, clear beauty. That experience of seeing 'for the first time' is one that I practise regularly, particularly on my daily walk into town.

    When I first came across the Noble Truths, I got really troubled by the idea of "Right", it smacked of dualism. What I have begun to glimpse, as I practise, is that, as Thich Nhat Hanh says, that "from the viewpoint of ultimate reality, Right View is the absence of views."
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited September 2005
    :crazy: :lol:
  • sufferersufferer
    edited September 2005
    well this is my advice, in my book, by the dalai lama, yes i know I use it a lot, but well, thats just me sasy that when you get these images in your head try to meditate, if your in a situation where meditation is not a possibility, just skip the meditation part, but back to topic, just call an image of the buddha to your mind when these images come you, if you are a buddhist it should have special meaning to you, and if it doesn't , try using other objects. :-/
  • treetop_buddhatreetop_buddha Explorer
    edited September 2005
    sure ill try that
    :ot: and my definition of a bad thought :ot: is whishing hurt on people sexuall thoughts, like a couple of friends of mine keep ragging on a disabled kid man it gets me mad i feel like i want to punch them and iv tryed telling them that but they dont lestin to me!!!! :mean: :mean:
  • buddhafootbuddhafoot Veteran
    edited September 2005
    An interesting post by Simon on another thread...
    Simonthepilgrim wrote:
    While we were in Dharamshala, we met a couple of French film-makers. They had the audience with the Dalai Lama before ours and, at dinner that night, we swapped stories.

    Apparently, after they had finished the filmed interview, they were chatting with HHDL about feminism and sex. The subject of monastic cekibacy was discussed and one of them asked HHDL if he had found it difficult. In reply, he said, "When it got too difficult there was always this (*making masturbating movement*)" and laughed.

    Sex in itself is neither good nor bad, of course, being as empty as any other activity.

    -bf
  • sufferersufferer
    edited September 2005
    :banghead: yes i know that we were ragging on him and that it was wrong, and i do feel bad, though i'm an expert at not showing how i feel, it was very wrong to rag on him.
    :banghead:
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited September 2005
    I'm not sure what you mean by "ragging on him", Sufferer. Do you mean that you were making fun of him? Did he enjoy it? Did it improve his life? If the answer is that he did not like it, I would most strongly urge you to stop it now!

    Imagine that, having "ragged on him", you step out in front of a bus. The last action that will condition how you are remembered will be as a bully.

    A great way to have spent a precious human life.
  • sufferersufferer
    edited September 2005
    yes we were making fun of him and i have stopped it, and even though he was never within hearing range when we did it, i do regret saying those things.
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited September 2005
    I found, Sufferer, that when I started being kind to others, I could be kind to myself.
  • sufferersufferer
    edited September 2005
    that's true, once you open the doors in your walls and let people in and start being kind to them, the walls come down.
  • treetop_buddhatreetop_buddha Explorer
    edited September 2005
    holy, thats some deep stuff and i like the anolgy and i have noticed that i fell better now that im nice
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