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- Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:37 pm
- Forum: Dharma Stories
- Topic: Entrance exam (joke)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10935
Re: Entrance exam (joke)
Laughter, the best medicine
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:34 pm
- Forum: Dharma Stories
- Topic: the practice of loving-kindness
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5773
Re: the practice of loving-kindness
This story of loving kindness is a little more straight forward and direct.
Still good to touch the heart.
Still good to touch the heart.
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:02 pm
- Forum: Dharma Stories
- Topic: No Loving-Kindness (a Zen story)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7000
Re: No Loving-Kindness (a Zen story)
Old topic from 2009. Really do like this story Shows the level of understanding of the monk and the level of understanding of the old lady. The old lady believes that all she had done for the monk was wasted cause he showed no compassion The monk believes all the woman's desires are wasted since the...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:41 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: have a question
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4262
Re: another question 3
If you are asking if it is possible for someone to see everything as emptiness, then yes, it is possible. That doesn’t mean it is easy to do, or that everybody can do it. The emptiness of phenomena means that nothing is self-arising. Everything is constantly changing, and constantly reflecting how ...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:14 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: have a question
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4262
Re: have a question
What was the question again? "my question is it right to look everything from an emptiness view or window?" What do you mean by emptiness? Many people throw words (or Buddhist terms) around like everyone should know their meaning And would guess that some do and many don't. What if anythin...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:34 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
Haven't talked with you for a long time?LastLegend wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 4:58 pmI try to abandon theory. Not one or two. I have no dilemma or doubt about mind and brain. How about you?
How has your practice been?
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:02 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
No mind is ignore? Ignore pain. So then what knows to ignore?! No Chan Patriarchs ever mentioned brain in association with mind. Bodhidharma’s blood stream sermon uses mind as nature, though no technical explanation of consciousness and other aggregates. Sixth Patriarch used Maha Prajna more often ...
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:57 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Meditation in Nature
- Replies: 66
- Views: 22406
Re: Meditation in Nature
If one is meditating then isn't the focus inside one's head So what does it matter if one is in the woods or in a city park or in a room inside of a temple? To believe it makes a difference is another one of the mind's illusions Of course, what one believes is ones truth and becomes the reality What...
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:17 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
1. If your hand is holding the spoon then your hand is holding the spoon. If you are only thinking about a spoon, or dreaming about a spoon, then it is only your mind holding the spoon. 2. If mind is only encased in the brain then all you can experience is the dark, cramped enclosure of the brain, ...
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:47 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
AV, I don't think our discussions are stumbling over a fundamental disagreement - you assert mind is an epiphenomenon of matter, and we're saying something else, to put it sort of crudely - matter is a function of mind. As long as we're clear about this we can talk around it, but it does limit wher...
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:39 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
When you are thinking “spoon” then the mind is holding the spoon. Of course, my hand has nothing to do with holding the spoon?? Mind is infinite, like space. But just like a house divides space up into small rooms, the mind is divided up by the 5 ordinary senses, because these senses are limited. M...
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:26 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
Mind has no characteristics, no finite qualities. But, it is constant? And when asked to use the mind to hold spoon, it can not unless it uses hands or other tools. Of course, not finite. But, then again, Buddhist consider it like a sense... like the other five senses. So, other five senses are not ...
- Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:49 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
However, if you wish to teach then I am willing to learn. Buddhist teachings are that our experience of consciousness (not to be confused with the nature of consciousness itself) in other words, what we experience through our senses, that experience arises where awareness and objects of awareness m...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:48 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
Who or what is the discerning perceiver who sees truth? Who sees what is not hidden? That's not not a description of the mind dropping off as best I can tell. Maybe it is. Can you elaborate? I have no words to describe such things. You might then consider Buddha's teachings, then. Because there are...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:20 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
Who or what is the discerning perceiver who sees truth? Who sees what is not hidden? That's not not a description of the mind dropping off as best I can tell. Maybe it is. Can you elaborate? I have no words to describe such things. Spoken like a materialist. You are a person of our time and place. ...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:07 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
Your mind comes from the collection of thing we call the body. When the body dies, this mind dies too. Ideas and thoughts do not have a physical substance. Which is it? The body, when alive has the emanations of consciousness, mind, thought ideas. Those things have no physical substance. Your body ...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 6:44 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
Sorry for the tangent, ... There is something profoundly disturbing in those words. Like a separation between mind and what observes mind?? All the while, I have had the feeling that the practice is for a dropping off of mind?? To find that which is not an emanation of the aggregates of this body??...
- Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:23 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Thinking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5394
Re: Thinking
There are many approaches to meditation that promise better thinking applied to relationships and work. Transcendental Meditation, for instance. That's not what Buddhists generally do. To put it sort of humorously, we're not practicing to get better at samsara. We're looking to end samsara. One of ...
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:38 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Drowning in Ill Will
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1673
Re: Drowning in Ill Will
I know most people will not agree with me. But, holding ill will in .. it will not set you free. You have to let it out. Let those involve know how you feel. If you are drowning in ill will then get rid of the ill will. Let your relatives who got the old man to sign the land over to them to take car...
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:51 pm
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: How to get a reals sense of reincarnation being true? / Fear of death questions
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14793
Re: How to get a reals sense of reincarnation being true? / Fear of death questions
What can you do to lose your fear of dying ? Is there a way to get a felt sense of its being nothing to fear? Is it possible to gain a real sense of reincarnation being true and if so through what practice? Guessing you are looking for answers that come from your own experiences Something to give y...