@Menoftheinfinite I would love to have you guys on the OpenAirAtheistPodCast sometime, to discuss this and other vids. I have gleamed much understanding from them : )
In "With These Eyes" a young woman embarks on a journey that holds the pieces to the puzzle that will reveal the secret behind Quantum Energy.
Buddhist wisdom and the goodness of her heart are the only weapons Isabelle de Fleur possesses in her battle against an army of covert spies sworn to protect their employer at all cost.
Dr. Chukanov's real life Quantum Generator serves as the inspiration to a free society in this suspensful and wittingly entertaining novel by Horst Steiner.
See the traditional Buddhish in Asia, you will find out " Is Buddhism a religion or not" ? Buddha believe that God exist. ( See "The Buddha" in PBS " God told Buddha teaching his knowlegdes) But Buddha didn't teach people about God because he didn't know much about him. He taught people about his life experiences. East buddhist clergies had been made Buddha become Buddhist's god. Western Buddhist clergies reject God. Mainly,Buddhism have system clergy ==> Buddhism is religion.
I like your video and agree with you 100% but I don't hesitate to call myself a Buddhist. As far as I can tell you've got the essence of it, that's all you need, the rest? well there something about human nature and the need for religious practices. Have you read any of the Nyingma texts? They spell it out so clear. If you havn't come across the teachings of Ramana Maharishi I'm you would appreciate them
@anlashock - I know what you mean. There's a lot of crap out there. If you're not very familiar with Buddhism, I'd recommend anything by Alan Watts (there's a lot here on Youtube), or any of the following from the Zen tradition: Nagarjuna, Huang Po, Chuang Tzu, Hakuin. Google is your friend :)
@MenoftheInfinite i just read "The new Buddhism" by David Brazier must off the book is about Pure Earth not as a mistical objective, but as something that can be created on earth if we work for it . And then there are a couple of passages that sound alot like white guilt ,very strange.
Love this vid. I am a Buddhist and happy with that, but i totally get what you are saying. However, i think the comment about the prayre wheel was a bit cruel and echoes your dislike of religion.
@brucinda01 - I have a dislike for superstitious stupidity. It is harmful and deserving of scorn. If it were benign I'd have a different attitude, but it is not.
Zen is truly the best form of this philosophy. It is the most enlightened as well. Zen mastered often have stated that Zen does not exist, nothing is gained from practicing it, so on and so forth.
This is the same conclusion I've come to as well. I doubt that "Buddha" was a Buddhist, just as I doubt "Christ" was a Christian. Just the opposite! They were probably just Zen psychologists trying to wake their students up from the dreams of thought, from the delusions of belief.
Nevermind the endless complexity of cultural additions to their teachings; nevermind the authority of the teachers themselves.
Enlightenment is like pushing in the clutch between the gears of thought.
Haha, great ending. Lucky I'm already a subscriber!
I'm hearing alot of anger towards the mythic developmental awareness. You should recognize that this type of cognition fills some very important functions, such as creating stability, law and order in societies where there is none. This is why that cognition evolved. Now when this goal is achieved in modern societies, we can safely move on to a more rational, reasonable cognition as demonstrated here in your great videos.
Do you practice anything like metta-bhavana or naikan, or meditation upon suffering (taking and giving?) That is what I practiced and it contributed to my shinjin experience, which was emotionally moving. I saw alot of things within myself that were false and evil. I also started feeling compassion moreso in general. I didn't practice zazen alone.
I don't "practice" anything at all, excepting the art of thought. Anything else to me is just ritualistic nonsense.
From what basis do you make the judgement of what is false and evil in yourself? And what is "evil"? You know that's just a personal judgement and interpretation of phenomena, right?
Even the Buddha said some things were evil. You could define evil, I suppose, as something that gives rise to suffering, to greed, and so forth. "Art of thought" has nothing to do with meditation, and your prized rationality stinks of pride. The whole point of meditation is to let go of all thoughts, conceptualizations, attachments and cravings, mental formations, etc. There is nothing inherently rational about Buddhism or Taoism. It is just a philosophy/religion like any other
The only way to let go of all those things is to be dead. The idea that Buddhism teaches the cessation of concepts and mental formulations is worse than ignorant, I'm afraid, it is just idiocy. Sadly, many Buddhists believe their own method teaches such rubbish.
"the only way to let go of all those things is to be dead" - so, it seems to me you don't want a real philosophy that challenges your worldview, so much as something that confirms your own prejudices about how life should be. Fine. But please stop going around ranting about how your beliefs are so much better than other peoples' religions- it stinks of ego and pride. Who knows, maybe Christianity is true, and maybe you are wrong?
No, I just don't want folly and delusion in my worldview. Concepts and mental formulations are what consciousness is made up of. One CANNOT be rid of them, one can only be rid of false forms and attachments.
Religious Xianity is nothing short of blithering idiocy. I know with certainty it is wrong and I understand very well its myriad psychological failings.
If one can perceive the "Zen Master" in Jesus, then one has some hope of seeing what he really offered. Religion contains no truth.
I disagree with you. Consciousness is not made up of concepts and mental formulations. Consciousness is simply awareness. A dog can be conscious, yet the dog doesn't have the ability to form concepts and mental formulations, at least not in ways as complex as a human mind can. Meditation could probably help you grasp that state of consciousness where you let go of concepts and mental formulations, if only for a few seconds. There is nothing religious or superstitious about that my friend.
I raelly am not sure there is such a thing as enlightenment, and I say that with some experience meditating. Enlightenment begs the question of where wisdom comes from- if it comes from some abstract sense of an Absolute or God, can anybody actually claim to grasp all of that? Just beware of anybody promising enlightenment and deliverence from suffering (whose suffering- your suffering? that's not the only suffering). I honestly am pursuing a religious path, exploring Christianity.
And how do you know what is a delusion and what is not? Because Buddha said so? What if Buddha started with a faulty premise? In some ways the Buddhist worldview is very thin and explains nothing. Wisdom has many meanings, not all of them have to do with the three marks of existence. If you believe your suffering is the only suffering that matters, that is a form of solipsism and spiritual materialsm.
I know "what is what" because I thought about it and established it, as all of us must. What the Buddha said is merely a working premise to explore - as he, himself, said.
Re: suffering - one cannot hope to sensibly speak about suffering without personal wisdom. To do so is arrogance or nonsensical flailing in the dark.
What is the "3 marks of existence"? That sounds like an expression from a belief system.
You think you are so wise, and I'm so foolish. I have done alot of buddhist meditation- alot, and I came to the conclusion there is nothing extraordinarily revealing about Buddha's dharma that couldn't be explained by psychology. It is a religion cobbled together from philsophical assertios and psychological analysis, nothing more. There is no such thing as enlightenment.
Buddhism is not about meditation? I think there are alot of Buddhists who would disagree with you. Maybe the only vehicle of Buddhism that might hold that is perhaps the Theravada, which can be almost fundamentalist in their views. Christianity is not philosophical? Actually, I think that's a buch of rubbish and people like you should indeed be called out on that. Frankly, your whole diatribe smacks of pride and ego. Perhaps you need to meditate more.
Well, lots of Buddhists are foolish religious types who think ritualized behaviour is getting them somewhere. The only "meditation" that has utility is that of calm, rational contemplation. Some call it "thinking".
Therevada has some merit in that it tries to tie itself as much as it can to Buddha's teachings without too much tradition overlay, but it fails. I'm a Zen man myself.
There's nothing philosophical about Xianity as it is generally evinced. Don't conflate theology and philosophy!
If you said to me you're approaching Xianity from a viewpoint of Kierkegaard or Meister Eckhart I'd encourage you, but the rest of Xian "thought" you can keep. Do read the Gospel of Tomas though. You'll find the real Jesus there.
The Gospel of Thomas is mostly heretical writings. Only a few lines are attributed to Jesus by early church fathers, such as "Split a piece of wood, and I am there". Otherwise, it is mostly a product of mystery cults. It is a non-historical "sayings Gospel". Meditation is not rational contemplation. It is completely beyond that. There's nothing inherently logical about the experience of meditation. I'm sure you know that, right?
Meister Eckhart? Actually, I have read some of him. Mostly I am interested in Catholic/Orthodox mysticism and spiritual formation. I grew up Protestant but I consider Protestantism somewhat lacking. I also am interested in Buddhism, and I am not sure what direction to go, although I feel a stronger identification with Xtianity, but, I think you are right in some of the criticism I've also had something like a kensho or shinjin experience. Part of my self has definitely dropped off.
My advice is to be an individual. Avoid "religion" like the plague, whether it's in the Xian or Buddhist tradition. Ritual and ritualistic thinking is death to the mind.
Like I said, I'm a Zen kind of guy. I recommend that above all else (if you're going to follow any sort of "tradition". But ultimately my advice is to value your own reason and just - THINK.
Heretical to whom? The champions of arbitrary orthodoxy? The reason they left the so-called "gnostic" gospels out of the NT is that is they presented a Jesus that didn't fit the myth they were creating.
Mystery cults? Sounds like Xianty!
What you say about conventional meditation is precisely why I reject it outright. There's nothing logical about it. I have no time for people who think that the Universe will provide them with valid information if they just empty their minds.
Really excellent. I made a similar point - although far less eloquently - in two vids (On Zen, and Why it's Not Buddhism, and On Buddhism, and Why it's Not Zen).
Obviously Zen is part of the history of Buddhism, but I think it's fair and accurate to suggest that Buddhism's flight into ritualistic religiosity was somewhat stalled by the influence of Taoism and a more naturalistic approach. Zen more closely echos the Buddha's method than any other part of the Buddhist tradition, each part of which had its own native influences. Chan just got lucky in that Taoism was a quality influence (philosophical Taoism, that is).
Organized religion of any kind is generally a popular corruption of various valid philosophical teachings. Stay away from organized and/or popular religions, and investigate the core teachings behind them. Even something as twisted as modern Christianity has a good deal of truth at its core, specifically in the teachings of Jesus. But if one exposes himself to the popular Christian church, Jesus is going to be distorted beyond recognition into a form palatable to the "lowest common denominator."
@Menoftheinfinite I would love to have you guys on the OpenAirAtheistPodCast sometime, to discuss this and other vids. I have gleamed much understanding from them : )
OpenAirAtheist 2 weeks ago
In "With These Eyes" a young woman embarks on a journey that holds the pieces to the puzzle that will reveal the secret behind Quantum Energy.
Buddhist wisdom and the goodness of her heart are the only weapons Isabelle de Fleur possesses in her battle against an army of covert spies sworn to protect their employer at all cost.
Dr. Chukanov's real life Quantum Generator serves as the inspiration to a free society in this suspensful and wittingly entertaining novel by Horst Steiner.
PeaceWithTheseEyes 1 month ago
See the traditional Buddhish in Asia, you will find out " Is Buddhism a religion or not" ? Buddha believe that God exist. ( See "The Buddha" in PBS " God told Buddha teaching his knowlegdes) But Buddha didn't teach people about God because he didn't know much about him. He taught people about his life experiences. East buddhist clergies had been made Buddha become Buddhist's god. Western Buddhist clergies reject God. Mainly,Buddhism have system clergy ==> Buddhism is religion.
MrWrongevolution 1 month ago
WE ARE ALL BUDDHA
World0fWowcraft 9 months ago
I like your video and agree with you 100% but I don't hesitate to call myself a Buddhist. As far as I can tell you've got the essence of it, that's all you need, the rest? well there something about human nature and the need for religious practices. Have you read any of the Nyingma texts? They spell it out so clear. If you havn't come across the teachings of Ramana Maharishi I'm you would appreciate them
Bobcat952 1 year ago
I'm a Buddhist too! But i have my second own religion. it's call "Happinism".
Basic teaching
- Be Happy!
- Don't hurt other people while doing it!
- Try to help other people to be happy too!(optional)
jojoinhere 1 year ago
funny thanks
DanceSexy101 1 year ago
any book u recomend about the core teachings off buddha
most books u have to go threw alot off mistical extras
anlashock 1 year ago
@anlashock - I know what you mean. There's a lot of crap out there. If you're not very familiar with Buddhism, I'd recommend anything by Alan Watts (there's a lot here on Youtube), or any of the following from the Zen tradition: Nagarjuna, Huang Po, Chuang Tzu, Hakuin. Google is your friend :)
MenoftheInfinite 1 year ago
@MenoftheInfinite i just read "The new Buddhism" by David Brazier must off the book is about Pure Earth not as a mistical objective, but as something that can be created on earth if we work for it . And then there are a couple of passages that sound alot like white guilt ,very strange.
anlashock 1 year ago
you sound like a secular buddhist
anlashock 1 year ago
@anlashock - I'm a genuine, non-religious Buddhist. Same thing I suppose :)
MenoftheInfinite 1 year ago
Faith, Belief & Reason in Buddhism
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taemi69 1 year ago
watch?v=sSIPYNwA8sk
taemi69 1 year ago
Love this vid. I am a Buddhist and happy with that, but i totally get what you are saying. However, i think the comment about the prayre wheel was a bit cruel and echoes your dislike of religion.
brucinda01 1 year ago
@brucinda01 - I have a dislike for superstitious stupidity. It is harmful and deserving of scorn. If it were benign I'd have a different attitude, but it is not.
MenoftheInfinite 1 year ago
+75 enlightenment points for me!
Zen is truly the best form of this philosophy. It is the most enlightened as well. Zen mastered often have stated that Zen does not exist, nothing is gained from practicing it, so on and so forth.
iZenBuddha 2 years ago
I completely agree. Religion in spirituality packaged with unhealthy preservtatives..
dwixi 2 years ago
This is the same conclusion I've come to as well. I doubt that "Buddha" was a Buddhist, just as I doubt "Christ" was a Christian. Just the opposite! They were probably just Zen psychologists trying to wake their students up from the dreams of thought, from the delusions of belief.
Nevermind the endless complexity of cultural additions to their teachings; nevermind the authority of the teachers themselves.
Enlightenment is like pushing in the clutch between the gears of thought.
1zenAwhile 2 years ago
What do you mean by, "mythic developmental awareness". ?
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
Haha, great ending. Lucky I'm already a subscriber!
I'm hearing alot of anger towards the mythic developmental awareness. You should recognize that this type of cognition fills some very important functions, such as creating stability, law and order in societies where there is none. This is why that cognition evolved. Now when this goal is achieved in modern societies, we can safely move on to a more rational, reasonable cognition as demonstrated here in your great videos.
kasuskasus 3 years ago
thank you I liked this video
monteral12 3 years ago
Do you practice anything like metta-bhavana or naikan, or meditation upon suffering (taking and giving?) That is what I practiced and it contributed to my shinjin experience, which was emotionally moving. I saw alot of things within myself that were false and evil. I also started feeling compassion moreso in general. I didn't practice zazen alone.
Magnulus76 3 years ago
I don't "practice" anything at all, excepting the art of thought. Anything else to me is just ritualistic nonsense.
From what basis do you make the judgement of what is false and evil in yourself? And what is "evil"? You know that's just a personal judgement and interpretation of phenomena, right?
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
Even the Buddha said some things were evil. You could define evil, I suppose, as something that gives rise to suffering, to greed, and so forth. "Art of thought" has nothing to do with meditation, and your prized rationality stinks of pride. The whole point of meditation is to let go of all thoughts, conceptualizations, attachments and cravings, mental formations, etc. There is nothing inherently rational about Buddhism or Taoism. It is just a philosophy/religion like any other
Magnulus76 3 years ago
The only way to let go of all those things is to be dead. The idea that Buddhism teaches the cessation of concepts and mental formulations is worse than ignorant, I'm afraid, it is just idiocy. Sadly, many Buddhists believe their own method teaches such rubbish.
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
"the only way to let go of all those things is to be dead" - so, it seems to me you don't want a real philosophy that challenges your worldview, so much as something that confirms your own prejudices about how life should be. Fine. But please stop going around ranting about how your beliefs are so much better than other peoples' religions- it stinks of ego and pride. Who knows, maybe Christianity is true, and maybe you are wrong?
Magnulus76 3 years ago
No, I just don't want folly and delusion in my worldview. Concepts and mental formulations are what consciousness is made up of. One CANNOT be rid of them, one can only be rid of false forms and attachments.
Religious Xianity is nothing short of blithering idiocy. I know with certainty it is wrong and I understand very well its myriad psychological failings.
If one can perceive the "Zen Master" in Jesus, then one has some hope of seeing what he really offered. Religion contains no truth.
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
I disagree with you. Consciousness is not made up of concepts and mental formulations. Consciousness is simply awareness. A dog can be conscious, yet the dog doesn't have the ability to form concepts and mental formulations, at least not in ways as complex as a human mind can. Meditation could probably help you grasp that state of consciousness where you let go of concepts and mental formulations, if only for a few seconds. There is nothing religious or superstitious about that my friend.
perrofrio 2 years ago
I raelly am not sure there is such a thing as enlightenment, and I say that with some experience meditating. Enlightenment begs the question of where wisdom comes from- if it comes from some abstract sense of an Absolute or God, can anybody actually claim to grasp all of that? Just beware of anybody promising enlightenment and deliverence from suffering (whose suffering- your suffering? that's not the only suffering). I honestly am pursuing a religious path, exploring Christianity.
Magnulus76 3 years ago
# Enlightenment is not a product of meditation. Enlightenment is simply the absence of delusions regarding the nature of self and reality.
# Wisdom comes from - and is - the *realisation* of the products of reason.
# I claim to grasp reality and know exactly what God is.
# Whose suffering? The individual's. Suffering derives from one's ignorance and delusion.
# Christianity will lead you nowhere but to delusion. Read the Gospel of Thomas first. There's wisdom in that at least.
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
And how do you know what is a delusion and what is not? Because Buddha said so? What if Buddha started with a faulty premise? In some ways the Buddhist worldview is very thin and explains nothing. Wisdom has many meanings, not all of them have to do with the three marks of existence. If you believe your suffering is the only suffering that matters, that is a form of solipsism and spiritual materialsm.
Magnulus76 3 years ago
I know "what is what" because I thought about it and established it, as all of us must. What the Buddha said is merely a working premise to explore - as he, himself, said.
Re: suffering - one cannot hope to sensibly speak about suffering without personal wisdom. To do so is arrogance or nonsensical flailing in the dark.
What is the "3 marks of existence"? That sounds like an expression from a belief system.
Forget others. Learn what suffering actually is.
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
You think you are so wise, and I'm so foolish. I have done alot of buddhist meditation- alot, and I came to the conclusion there is nothing extraordinarily revealing about Buddha's dharma that couldn't be explained by psychology. It is a religion cobbled together from philsophical assertios and psychological analysis, nothing more. There is no such thing as enlightenment.
Magnulus76 3 years ago
Buddhism is not about meditation. You clearly have no appreciation for Buddhist metaphysics or ontology whatsoever.
I doubt you even know what enlightenment means.
That you have turned to Xianity shows that you are not suited to philosophical thought at all.
Good luck.
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
Buddhism is not about meditation? I think there are alot of Buddhists who would disagree with you. Maybe the only vehicle of Buddhism that might hold that is perhaps the Theravada, which can be almost fundamentalist in their views. Christianity is not philosophical? Actually, I think that's a buch of rubbish and people like you should indeed be called out on that. Frankly, your whole diatribe smacks of pride and ego. Perhaps you need to meditate more.
Magnulus76 3 years ago
Well, lots of Buddhists are foolish religious types who think ritualized behaviour is getting them somewhere. The only "meditation" that has utility is that of calm, rational contemplation. Some call it "thinking".
Therevada has some merit in that it tries to tie itself as much as it can to Buddha's teachings without too much tradition overlay, but it fails. I'm a Zen man myself.
There's nothing philosophical about Xianity as it is generally evinced. Don't conflate theology and philosophy!
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
If you said to me you're approaching Xianity from a viewpoint of Kierkegaard or Meister Eckhart I'd encourage you, but the rest of Xian "thought" you can keep. Do read the Gospel of Tomas though. You'll find the real Jesus there.
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
The Gospel of Thomas is mostly heretical writings. Only a few lines are attributed to Jesus by early church fathers, such as "Split a piece of wood, and I am there". Otherwise, it is mostly a product of mystery cults. It is a non-historical "sayings Gospel". Meditation is not rational contemplation. It is completely beyond that. There's nothing inherently logical about the experience of meditation. I'm sure you know that, right?
Magnulus76 3 years ago
Meister Eckhart? Actually, I have read some of him. Mostly I am interested in Catholic/Orthodox mysticism and spiritual formation. I grew up Protestant but I consider Protestantism somewhat lacking. I also am interested in Buddhism, and I am not sure what direction to go, although I feel a stronger identification with Xtianity, but, I think you are right in some of the criticism I've also had something like a kensho or shinjin experience. Part of my self has definitely dropped off.
Magnulus76 3 years ago
My advice is to be an individual. Avoid "religion" like the plague, whether it's in the Xian or Buddhist tradition. Ritual and ritualistic thinking is death to the mind.
Like I said, I'm a Zen kind of guy. I recommend that above all else (if you're going to follow any sort of "tradition". But ultimately my advice is to value your own reason and just - THINK.
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
Heretical to whom? The champions of arbitrary orthodoxy? The reason they left the so-called "gnostic" gospels out of the NT is that is they presented a Jesus that didn't fit the myth they were creating.
Mystery cults? Sounds like Xianty!
What you say about conventional meditation is precisely why I reject it outright. There's nothing logical about it. I have no time for people who think that the Universe will provide them with valid information if they just empty their minds.
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
Really excellent. I made a similar point - although far less eloquently - in two vids (On Zen, and Why it's Not Buddhism, and On Buddhism, and Why it's Not Zen).
HorridFroth 3 years ago
Obviously Zen is part of the history of Buddhism, but I think it's fair and accurate to suggest that Buddhism's flight into ritualistic religiosity was somewhat stalled by the influence of Taoism and a more naturalistic approach. Zen more closely echos the Buddha's method than any other part of the Buddhist tradition, each part of which had its own native influences. Chan just got lucky in that Taoism was a quality influence (philosophical Taoism, that is).
MenoftheInfinite 3 years ago
Organized religion of any kind is generally a popular corruption of various valid philosophical teachings. Stay away from organized and/or popular religions, and investigate the core teachings behind them. Even something as twisted as modern Christianity has a good deal of truth at its core, specifically in the teachings of Jesus. But if one exposes himself to the popular Christian church, Jesus is going to be distorted beyond recognition into a form palatable to the "lowest common denominator."
Naturyl 3 years ago
Where do you source the many and very apt for purpose photographs and pictures you use in your videos?
nriab23 3 years ago