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What are your priorities?
lobster
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My priorities are Buddhahood (by year end 2013) and . . . well that is it actually . . .
Is dharma your life centre? Is day to day survival enough to contend with? Maybe they are part of the same thing?
How are you getting on with your priorities?
Is dharma your life centre? Is day to day survival enough to contend with? Maybe they are part of the same thing?
How are you getting on with your priorities?
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I am slightly confused, as the small amount of reading i have done so far contradicts what you have wrote int his post by expressing to gain buddhahood by 2013.
The small amount of reading i have done so far led me to believe, some can't go out and become/gain "Buddhahood" it just happens, and those who have attained Buddhahood / enlightenment will not proclaim themselves to have done so. I also read someone mentioned that a common rule of thumb is: if someone is enlightened, he doesn't tell you so; and if someone tells you he is enlightened, he isn't.
Maybe I am reading what I am reading wrong, or am just confused. If someone could clarify that would be apprciated.
Please don't take this post as being rude, its far from it, and i really dont want it to seem that way, I just want to make sure what I am reading, is right or wrong
Thanks!
day to day survival is all I have - enough to be content with when not contending.
maybe? doubt it otherwise!
(2) To 'improve' in my concentration in zazen and to deepen my awareness in my day-to-day activities and interactions. To bring my zazen more OFF the cushion and into all my activities.
Even to do that little will be something!
I have created a routine of meditation now so that I am doing it twice a day now, and I am beginning to incorporate three zazen sessions during the day. I'd like to bring it up from 15 minutes each to 30 minutes (it takes my mind 10 minutes to settle a bit!).
My job has been chaotic since I was promoted to a managerial position, but I have been trying to implement a weekday routine and a weekend routine which focueses as much as I can on the Buddhadharma. And if you saw the loft I live in, with all the stuff I DON'T have, it is like being a secular monk! (I have a mattress, a desk, a stool and one small bookshelf--I've always been a minimalist and an admirer of Thoreau)
I am working (yet again) on my version of the Daodejing with commentary (which is really more a Huayen Buddhist approach to the Daodejing). I'd like to have the first draft completed by the end of the year of the translation, maybe even the commentary.
Oh, and I've been vegetarian for three weeks now too!
Maybe I should take a lax approach. 'Failure' is an option . . .
Oh the humanity . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Morrison_(announcer)
What you are reading is not all that is available but generally speaking, it is indeed right . . .
All the best,
Todd
Chopped and steamed with oyster sauce. Or maybe in a curry on steamed rice.
Meditate a bit and read some on the dhamma.
1. My Family and their well-being (particularly my elderly parents)
2. Me- and trying my best to live this Life emotionally balanced, healthy and with grace and gratitude, by enhancing all that is the Buddha within....
Really- that's it!