Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
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Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
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Re: Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
Wisdom is happening in real-time here, folks. Good companions on the path are here.
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In all seriousness, is this really your take on Pure Land? If so, what about that teaching makes it seem that there might be some ironic truth to this?
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Re: Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
Sure. When i was a kid my grandpa told me to go get a four leaf clover. It would be good to me he said. So i kept looking the entire summer just scanning the lawn but to no avail. Then one day i went to the dentist and he used to have this box full of toys which we would get as a consolidation or something because it can be painful to have teeth drilled etc. I chose a kind of toy "gun" that would shoot a peopeller that looked like this:
And i remember i got out of the car and shot it across the lawn. When i went to get the propeller it had a four leaf clover sticking out of the hole in the middle. That defies probability to some. But let me tell you what is rarer than finding a four leaf clover like that. To be here as a human. Intelligent. Wondering. Reflecting.
This rarity principle does work on higher levels i think and that is why we can find something like pure land buddhism. We will go to the pure land for sure. If not then we would just create our own pure lands and have our own eighteenth vow. Sooner or later something good comes. Now is your time. This is our little wonder in this big mysterious strife.
Much love.
And i remember i got out of the car and shot it across the lawn. When i went to get the propeller it had a four leaf clover sticking out of the hole in the middle. That defies probability to some. But let me tell you what is rarer than finding a four leaf clover like that. To be here as a human. Intelligent. Wondering. Reflecting.
This rarity principle does work on higher levels i think and that is why we can find something like pure land buddhism. We will go to the pure land for sure. If not then we would just create our own pure lands and have our own eighteenth vow. Sooner or later something good comes. Now is your time. This is our little wonder in this big mysterious strife.
Much love.
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Re: Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
Sorry about the tasteless miracle story by the way. Just wanted to make an example using ideas about probability.
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Re: Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
Heh, it is okay. I understand you excitement. Also the guy received phowa meditation, so if he remembers it well enough and practiced it a bit he will get away with it. Too many ifs but eh whatever the point is I get your excitement.Wicked Yeshe wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 7:28 am Sorry about the tasteless miracle story by the way. Just wanted to make an example using ideas about probability.
“Observing samaya involves to remain inseparable from the union of wisdom and compassion at all times, to sustain mindfulness, and to put into practice the guru’s instructions”. Garchen Rinpoche
For those who do virtuous actions,
goodness is what comes to pass.
For those who do non-virtuous actions,
that becomes suffering indeed.
- Arya Sanghata Sutra
For those who do virtuous actions,
goodness is what comes to pass.
For those who do non-virtuous actions,
that becomes suffering indeed.
- Arya Sanghata Sutra
Re: Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
Thought this thread might be about the Mods.................
It isn't just Pure Land...... what about all those 'Liberation through.....' promises?
Doesn't encountering Dzogchen also carry some sort of fortunate rebirth guarantee as well?
It isn't just Pure Land...... what about all those 'Liberation through.....' promises?
Doesn't encountering Dzogchen also carry some sort of fortunate rebirth guarantee as well?
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Thanno Garuda Prachodayath
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Re: Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
Seems to me this thread is off topic, because the OP is not funny.
Anyhow, I think it's possible to reach pure land like this. But: will Greg and Steve enjoy it without booze and marihuana?
Anyhow, I think it's possible to reach pure land like this. But: will Greg and Steve enjoy it without booze and marihuana?
Re: Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
haha . I forgot about Greg and Steve . I appreciated this.
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Re: Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
I think it goes something like this:
If you're not ready, you have to spend time wrapped in a lotus calyx. Probably stocked with cases of liquor and smorgasborg of substances to tickle yourself until you get so sick of it you just want it to stop.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
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Re: Good guy Greg & Scumbag Steve
Yes. I remember relaxing in some nice company and i mentioned dzogchen. The next time we met everyone was like "for some reason this dzogchen term comes up in my mind it was as if i couldn't let it go".