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Toraldris · -`-,-{@ Zen Nud... Buddhist @}-,-`- · Veteran
Good night sweetheart, well it's time to go!
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Re: "Salvation or Enlightenment?"
I just have issues with such statements as "God is love", so long as this God character sends people to eternal torment if they don't believe in the divinity of his son. ;) (View Post)
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Re: Dharma Diary
My Dharma Diary reads: "This is what's happening right now." The title on the front cover, the back cover, and every page is "Mindfulness", and it has the most secure lock of any … (View Post)
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Re: Sam Harris discusses meditation forms based on the significance of cessation versus not cessation
I don't think enlightenment is all-or-nothing. It seems more reasonable to suppose that it happens gradually (as the gradualists say) but can also be experienced, the "state of mind of enlighten… (View Post)
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Re: Sam Harris discusses meditation forms based on the significance of cessation versus not cessation
I listened to the whole audiobook. Maybe it would help if it were in the context he's given it. I only understand the bits because I've heard the whole. I think there are two types of sudden enlighte… (View Post)1 -
Re: Sam Harris discusses meditation forms based on the significance of cessation versus not cessation
Zen people seem to be. That's why there's no goal, nothing to be attained in meditation. Bringing about that meditative state is the state of enlightenment. Of course it would be argued that it's als… (View Post)
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