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The Blessed One said, "What is the All? Simply the eye & forms, ear & sounds, nose & aromas, tongue & flavors, body & tactile sensations, intellect & ideas.
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Is moral discipline and keeping precepts the central teachings of the Buddha? No. There is nothing to be disciplined or kept. This is the central teaching. However since ordinarily what feels to be and feels as if being "I" and feels as if having "mine" tends to affirm this felt "I" and "mine" (aka...

Hi - I am pretty new with all this Dharma stuff. Can someone tell me if there is a single term for the conceptual idea that we are already perfect, already pure, already liberated as beings? It is called Upaya, skillful means but actually it is fostering delusion. Why? Because there is neither perf...

What is conceiving of being so or so? What is conceiving of getting this or that? The conceiver and the conceived ... one or two? :sage: Subjectively, your implied statements may hold; objectively, ... How does a statement hold anything? Consciousness grasps itself. What conceives of" subjectively"...

"I've seen too much hate ...

Hate is form, form is hate ?

What is conceiving of being so or so? What is conceiving of getting this or that? The conceiver and the conceived ... one or two?

Non-belief is not believing that what others believe is not true. Why? Non-belief simply is non-surrender to speculative thought.

...if any members of either* would like to argue why they think they're school is "better" (better being purely subjective thing in this case) than the other. ... From the outset there is no-thing, no consciousness/idea/meaning, no religion, no school, no "I", no "mine", no anything at all. It is w...

Attachment to alcohol, recovery from that, attachment to a girl ... human dilemma :sage: "The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact for its ind...

Life is about thinking, wishing, hoping, fearing, wanting and doing until it ceases.

Not, because impossible to consider my self

Mr Cohen seems to be just another gusher. But no problem the world is filled with gushers.

Nighthawk wrote:"Some people evidently regard Avalokiteshvara, Tara, etc., as ...

What's the purpose of speculating about other people? What's the purpose of speculation at all?

omnifriend wrote:hi,
i am torn between wether or not i want to practice shikantaza or vipassana. is shikantaza a samatha meditation, or is it both samatha and insight meditation at the same time. thank you.

In the beginning it may be samatha then there may be the arising of vipassana and then it may be neither.

Wesley1982 wrote:Hello,

What is the difference between a Christian and a Buddhist? . .

There is no difference but their preferred beliefs differ.

I am also curious about relation between Buddhism and ecology/green ideas (well, apart from the idea that we should feel compassion for animals and try to reduce their suffering). Thanks. Not only "reduce their suffering" but not cause suffering that they did not have before (i.e "harm") through e....

omnifriend wrote: what does one do with ones mind all day long?

Make sure consciousness does not arise and if it does let it go.

Iforgotthem wrote:I wonder how others react to the subject of enlightenment.

I don't care about speculative fantasies because I know that the only achievement of practice of buddha dharma is liberation from passions which are called "dukkha".

conebeckham wrote:

TMingyur wrote:"Cupness" is caused by biochemical structures within the brain

And what, pray tell, caused those biochemical structures within the brain to cause "cupness?"

This question is caused by biochemical structures within the brain, too

Loz2212 wrote:I just feel overwhelmed by the different types and the meditation aspects etc.

Feelings are impermanent.