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Re: beautiful women make me cry
(Quote) There are meditations used by monks to overcome lust in monastic training called asubha (not beautiful) meditation. Beauty is really only skin deep. Honestly. Thank God we don't have Xray eye… (View Post)
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Re: Second noble truth and physical suffering
What is the Noble Truth of Suffering? Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, sickness is suffering, dissociation from the loved is suffering, not to get what one wants is suffering: in short the fiv… (View Post)1 -
Re: I "get" the noble truths
The goal of meditation is to observe how much one creates one's own suffering. Everytime one tries to grab hold of or push away an object, we lose peace and sow the seeds of suffering. (View Post)
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Re: Reflections on rebirth
(Quote) Sure. But when the Buddha was instructing for the purpose of liberation(freedom from birth and death), he did not speak in those terms. "This is how he attends inappropriately: 'Was I in… (View Post)
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Re: Reflections on rebirth
(Quote) "My true being is ....... " is just a thought or idea. It arises and ceases. You are not a thought, a feeling, a perception or a body. All that is impermanent is not you! What is le… (View Post)2