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Christianity and how it relates to Buddhism
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Heh thank you. I've learned a lot from you. There is only one thing I know. It is that I know nothing. Much love.
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The Buddha advised those who do not honor his words: "Waste their life".
Dude. Your post about the Kalama sutta is both inaccurate & irrelevent.
Also, it was not irrelevant. You are saying that one should follow the Buddha's words blindly, with no question, like a Southern Baptist would follow the Bible. The Buddha's words are a framework to create your own philosophy. Buddhism is more of a way of life than anything.
Buddha taught dhamma leads to happy states and non-dhamma leads to the pits of hell.
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If we blindly believe everything the Buddha said..there would be a lot of problems. We have to walk the path. We have to experience things for ourselves.
Sure what the Buddha says is nice. It's a pointer to truth, but it isn't actually truth itself. The Buddha has a great path and I have lots of respect for his words. But they are just words.
Words are empty. Wisdom is what we seek. Wisdom comes from our own experience.
I don't disagree or agree with you. I just want you to realize we're just saying the same thing in different ways lol.
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Unless he's being sarcastic, which I hope he is. You can't tell on the internet.
Meditate. Meditate! Keep Meditating. Ha
God imaginer. God lover.
It is not your place to lecture Buddhists.
The Kalama Sutta merely states to reconcile teachings with the results of happiness & suffering; with harm & non-harm.
The Kalama Suttas implies nothing you are inferring.
I have repeatedly said, you have no idea about what Buddhism is.
Anyone who posts about Jesus, God, etc, has no idea about Buddhism.
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When you think, you divide. You create heaven and hell. You create good and bad. This and that.
When you don't think you're already Buddha. That which is before thinking is the Buddha.
When you ask a question like Where do you come from? What is your original face? Who were you before you were born? Who are you?
All these questions cannot be answered. When we're honest, we say I don't know.
Keep this not knowing mind with you. See what happens.
306. The liar goes to the state of woe; also he who, having done (wrong), says, "I did not do it." Men of base actions both, on departing they share the same destiny in the other world.
307. There are many evil characters and uncontrolled men wearing the saffron robe. These wicked men will be born in states of woe because of their evil deeds.
308. It would be better to swallow a red-hot iron ball, blazing like fire, than as an immoral and uncontrolled monk to eat the alms of the people.
309. Four misfortunes befall the reckless man who consorts with another's wife: acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, ill-repute, and (rebirth in) states of woe.
310. Such a man acquires demerit and an unhappy birth in the future. Brief is the pleasure of the frightened man and woman, and the king imposes heavy punishment. Hence, let no man consort with another's wife.
311. Just as kusa grass wrongly handled cuts the hand, even so, a recluse's life wrongly lived drags one to states of woe.
312. Any loose act, any corrupt observance, any life of questionable celibacy — none of these bear much fruit.
313. If anything is to be done, let one do it with sustained vigor. A lax monastic life stirs up the dust of passions all the more.
314. An evil deed is better left undone, for such a deed torments one afterwards. But a good deed is better done, doing which one repents not later.
315. Just as a border city is closely guarded both within and without, even so, guard yourself. Do not let slip this opportunity (for spiritual growth). For those who let slip this opportunity grieve indeed when consigned to hell.
316. Those who are ashamed of what they should not be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they should be ashamed of — upholding false views, they go to states of woe.
317. Those who see something to fear where there is nothing to fear, and see nothing to fear where there is something to fear — upholding false views, they go to states of woe.
318. Those who imagine evil where there is none, and do not see evil where it is — upholding false views, they go to states of woe.
319. Those who discern the wrong as wrong and the right as right — upholding right views, they go to realms of bliss.
We use the brain to figure out what the brain does. That is language and ideas.
Using ideas to find ideas. Philosophy is basically summed up like that.
Religion points to that which we cannot put into words.
What is beyond language?
Dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma dogma.
There is no literal hell. The only hell that exists would be the one that you create for yourself.
But if you are interested in enlightenment, it is irrelevent.
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once you have a view on something you create division. truth moves in paradoxes.
we see paradoxes because we want to have a position on things.
how can there be good and evil? relatively there is, but ultimately there isn't.
you pick and choose the buddha's saying to fit your ideology of what buddhism is.
Nirvana is free from all views.
I wish the best for you my friend.
P.S. Please get back to us after you phone the lama to ask why he had kids.
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Why don't you come to the shade? It hot in hell.
You are wrong. The Buddha taught there is right view & wrong view.
The Buddha advised Nirvana is the end of greed, hatred & delusion.
Your practise is too immature to be able to discern.
I am a Buddhist. I do not tell lies.
Your views are kindergarten level (but a correct starting point).
All the best
Animals also don't think...what does that animal think of me?
The wrong view would be to believe there is a right view.
Have you never observed how plants compete for light in the forest, killing eachother.
Please.
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Animals do not fall under the laws of karma because they are programmed by instincts.
Animals cannot realise the three characteristics, that is, insight knowledge.
Humans, not understanding their true nature. We create division and opinions about that and this blah blah blah. We create wars based on ideologies.
If we all understood our true nature, there would be no problem.
Animals understand their true nature. They eat when they are hungry. They sleep when they are tired.
We humans can learn a lot from animals.
That is all. lol
When we have to pee, we have to pee. Maybe we can to choose where we pee, or we hold off on peeing. We still have to pee.
Same applies for hunger and sleep. Our biological functions run us.
We do have some choice and that does separate us from animals.
But this ability to think though practical and sometimes nice, brings more problems then needed. Actually it's our attachment to thinking, which brings most problems. We construct a self from our thoughts. We cause division. We have this opinion or that opinion.
Much problems come from our attachment to thinking.