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Re: What about the emotional 'I'?
All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. Without feeling of loss and gain, pleasure and pain, how can the feeling of… (View Post)
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Re: What is meditation?
Meditation(bhavana) is mental training or cultivation. To meditate one doesn't necessarily need to sit formally on a cushion or chair. The aim of Buddhist meditation is the removal of greed(desire), … (View Post)
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Re: How does the lack of free will tie in with the law of kamma?
We don't have "free will". We can't will our bodies not to grow old, get sick or die. We can't will ourselves to be happy and not feel sad or scared. We can't will ourselves from thinking b… (View Post)
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Re: How does the lack of free will tie in with the law of kamma?
We are like chess pieces on a chess board. There are rules to follow on that chess board just like the movie The Matrix. It is here that conventions(law of kamma) apply. As long as we think we are th… (View Post)
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Re: questions regarding mind
it seems to me that everything is manifestation of mind because it is the mind which experiences everything. but then the question arises - what is mind? does mind exist or does not exist? my thinkin… (View Post)2