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Re: Is Enlightenment Just Part Of Ones Practice ? (Where Practice Will Eventually Make Perfect)
The Buddha taught that what matters the most is suffering and how it can be ended. It doesn't matter how you label it, enlightened, awake, arahant, Buddha. All that is important is whether you still … (View Post)
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Re: Buddhism and the No Soul Doctrine
The body is not ours. It belongs to nature. If it were ours, we would not need to do a dissection to know its contents. What happens if we stop eating or drinking? We or rather the body dies. We can … (View Post)
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Re: Existence is our True Nature
(Quote) Exactly. I cannot speak for the cosmos and have no way of knowing whether the cosmos knows itself through me. Is the cosmos sentient? Mmmm All I know is that all things are ownerless and not … (View Post)2 -
Re: Perception of Time
For things to exist, they need to occupy space and time. From atoms, quarks, bosons to stars, galaxies and universes. From the perspective of anatta, existence of things and hence space and time is a… (View Post)
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Re: May as well give up?
May as well give up? Yes, let go of everything and wake up. The catch is, the person who is dreaming cannot let go until he wakes up. He simply has to keep trying until he does. Boy, am I glad that t… (View Post)2