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My Don'ts And Dos
IdleChater
USA Veteran
What I don't do:
- I don't, through personal effort, try to follow the 8FP
- I don't, though personal effort, try to keep Precepts
What I do:
- Meditate. Shamatha, to be precise.
From discussion with senior students, mentors, and respected teachers, I've come to believe:
- to make a personal effort to do these things, introduces an element of self that is counterproductive to realization
- The Buddha, according to tradition, didn't "keep" precepts or the 8 elements of the path. He meditated.
- Shamatha has been taught to me as a "complete practice", and will lead to enlightenment.
- As enlightenment approaches, the 8FP and Precepts will fall into line and manifest as a result, naturally, and not by any personal effort on my part.
- Enlightenment and Buddhahood is the result of meditation.
Your mileage may differ and I respect that. This is just what I do and don't do
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From what I gather, practicing the Dharma is a 24/7/365 thing which permeates every aspect of one's life....On and off the cushion....
A teacher once said ( I can't remember who) "The real meditation begins when you leave the cushion"...
In a sense, time spent on the cushion can be likened to priming one's mind to deal with things to come off the cushion .... putting it in go with the flow mode, so to speak...
That seems like a fair approach to the Dhamma, I heard it said once that all of the Buddhas teachings could be found from just one.
I don't worry about formality.
While I do take life seriously, I don't take myself all that seriously
I do allow the world to do whatever it will do
I do recognize (a) I am the center of my world and (b) I am not the center of the world
I do get comfortable
I do let the lesser (monkey) mind go where it will
I don't pay attention to the monkey mind
I do give myself permission to laugh at myself and be happy
HOORAY!
I does that shouting. 🤓
Great OP (original post) and comments 😌🙏🦞
I very much value continual strain-less meditation that @Shoshin1 mentions.
I totally appreciate the value of personal do and do more of (rather than any daunts/don'ts)
I am never comfortable, until everyone is. I must be one of them their Boddhisattvians …
I take refuge/protection/inspiration in the three jewels: Me, myself and I and I
Or as they are sometimes known: Buddha, dharma and sangha … 🥳🤫🫠
"I am never comfortable, until everyone is. I must be one of them their Boddhisattvians."
Bodhissatvas are quite comfortable in their being.
Bodhissatvas are are quite uncomfortable as unnecessary suffdering exists in the world.
that said, be most comfortably uncomfortable.
Peace to all
@IdleChater
What is Shamatha?
i did google search, shamatha is calm abiding? in zen peace is clear abiding ,seeing the nature of a thing. in tantra i use object as meditation to find the same nature same to our S. A. M,(effectionally..antha) i do Sam oneness. doing that happyness sometimes bliss emerge her empty nature.
@IdleChater
curious whats your religious flavor?
my friend i too love my sit session. how's your zen just be through the 4 season?
Karma Kagyu
@IdleChater
thank you. i consider the vajriana path wonderful in its ownright. if zen is a jet, vajri is a rocket to space.
Don't's I don't have any of those.
Do's
song,how romantic....serendepity is wonderful.
You're welcome. I guess ...
That's nice. ;-)
Such a knack for trivializing the important, or momentous.
Humour is important, and shouldn’t be underestimated. The Zen masters knew this very well.
Well, I don't think our dear friend is a Zen Master, or anything approaching it. He's a ...... lobster. Some people like his sense of humor. It's a bit contrived. I don't think that's a bad thing, I don't really care. But I don't find it funny.
Well, the first training you must undertake, is to write the word Vajrayana 108 times.
Consider this something like Marpa telling Milarepa to build a tower.
The online Zen Master is everywhere, hiding in all kinds of disguises, just waiting to pop out from behind some seemingly-absurd text to surprise the unwary. May your path be lightened by his presence this morning…
consider it done in one mathacalculus gibberish that leads to 108 times written in my heart:[E^3]=MC^2: Vajia(h.h. QUAN YIN)[E^3]YA-(na(Ye))/0^108=1+0+8 leads to 9=69 tantra.
VaJia is pussy power. ,h.h. is her holiness QY,= oneness...simple math of the relation S.A.M...Source Animated Matter of the heart
Oh.. extra dessert homework for me: E^3=MC^2..is Mu. TY MAA DHARMA DIAMOND ROSE Path. So DDD=Shakti grace.
Love pussy power the lioness roar of Tara. and ddd tits is sexy and nourishing to man baby pauly. zen nonsense. playing with my tara in my heart.
vaj-ray-ana is nice. light and rain is the rhyme and reason mu=um. mindless idle chater to i making. love the diamond heart of tara earth.