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by avisitor
Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:37 pm
Forum: Dharma Stories
Topic: Entrance exam (joke)
Replies: 11
Views: 10888

Re: Entrance exam (joke)

Laughter, the best medicine
by avisitor
Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:34 pm
Forum: Dharma Stories
Topic: the practice of loving-kindness
Replies: 4
Views: 5736

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.
by avisitor
Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:02 pm
Forum: Dharma Stories
Topic: No Loving-Kindness (a Zen story)
Replies: 4
Views: 6914

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...
by avisitor
Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:41 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: have a question
Replies: 44
Views: 4221

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 ...
by avisitor
Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:14 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: have a question
Replies: 44
Views: 4221

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...
by avisitor
Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:34 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

Re: Thinking

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?
Haven't talked with you for a long time?
How has your practice been?
by avisitor
Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:02 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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 ...
by avisitor
Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:57 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Meditation in Nature
Replies: 66
Views: 22179

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...
by avisitor
Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:17 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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, ...
by avisitor
Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:47 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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...
by avisitor
Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:39 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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...
by avisitor
Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:26 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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 ...
by avisitor
Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:49 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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...
by avisitor
Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:48 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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...
by avisitor
Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:20 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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. ...
by avisitor
Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:07 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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 ...
by avisitor
Thu Mar 04, 2021 6:44 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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??...
by avisitor
Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:23 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Thinking
Replies: 41
Views: 5311

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 ...
by avisitor
Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:38 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Drowning in Ill Will
Replies: 18
Views: 1638

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...
by avisitor
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: 14717

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...

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