Now THIS is the truth, the truth that is SO SIMPLE yet so ignored. I don't mean to attack anybody, but even in the comments section of this video I see so many people not really getting it. There is nothing to discuss other than being you; if you are you are, if you're not... you're not.
Not the even the path of Dolama or the advice he gives in his videos can we be followers! I am working on that. This was a really beautiful and meaningful video to me Do, thank you very much.
Very true Dolama. I did a week long retreat at a tibetan buddhist center last year. Never have I seen so many passive aggressive, fake people. They wore smiles on the outside, but inside they were burning with bitterness, anger and resentment. All they had done was trade one dogma in for a more exotic one. But to be fair, this step may be a necessary one for most of us.
I agree Dolama. I always try to tell people the exact same thing you are saying in this video, but not many people listen. Religions in my opinion are tools for finding spirituality. Once you find spirituality, you don't need Religion anymore because it will not take you further. I have spent most my life near Christian lunatics that told me i would go to hell and forced their beliefs upon me. My cousin is a Buddhist monk and introduced me to meditation, ever since then i follow my own path.
I agree with all you say, but I ask this: would an evil desire sprout from one's true heart? I doubt it. As long as we are estranged from our true heart, we might as well follow a teaching that brings a quiet mind open heart. And have you not met any truly beautiful Buddhist monks or sanyasis? I certainly have, though not many that is true. The great teachers have always met us where we are. They do not force the absolute highest truth upon us, but help us to the next step we are ready for.
@empty0grace Look deeper at what an 'evil' desire is. Most often, perhaps always, it's simply an estrangement of a 'good' desire. The unfulfilled desire to be loved, when abandoned, can become anger and loathing. The blockage of being prisoned can become frustration and rage. They are all the desire for one thing, and that's why they're neither good nor bad. But we do misdirect them sometimes, oftentimes, through our wrong concepts and beliefs about the world. With clarity, all desire is fine.
@Walley666 Hi Walley, thanks for responding to my comment. When I say evil, I mean it in the buddhist sense of unwholesome, that which brings suffering. But even in that I disagree slightly with you in that "unwholesome" is not just a question of misdirection. Because clarity will not always save you or others from the unwholesome consequences of such thoughts, emotions, words and deeds. Of course we need not judge, but restraint is necessary, or "sila" moral discipline as the Buddha called it.
Now THIS is the truth, the truth that is SO SIMPLE yet so ignored. I don't mean to attack anybody, but even in the comments section of this video I see so many people not really getting it. There is nothing to discuss other than being you; if you are you are, if you're not... you're not.
Walley666 2 months ago
Not the even the path of Dolama or the advice he gives in his videos can we be followers! I am working on that. This was a really beautiful and meaningful video to me Do, thank you very much.
tphillips0909 5 months ago
Very true Dolama. I did a week long retreat at a tibetan buddhist center last year. Never have I seen so many passive aggressive, fake people. They wore smiles on the outside, but inside they were burning with bitterness, anger and resentment. All they had done was trade one dogma in for a more exotic one. But to be fair, this step may be a necessary one for most of us.
mephistopheles93 6 months ago
I agree Dolama. I always try to tell people the exact same thing you are saying in this video, but not many people listen. Religions in my opinion are tools for finding spirituality. Once you find spirituality, you don't need Religion anymore because it will not take you further. I have spent most my life near Christian lunatics that told me i would go to hell and forced their beliefs upon me. My cousin is a Buddhist monk and introduced me to meditation, ever since then i follow my own path.
killerklown333 6 months ago
I agree with all you say, but I ask this: would an evil desire sprout from one's true heart? I doubt it. As long as we are estranged from our true heart, we might as well follow a teaching that brings a quiet mind open heart. And have you not met any truly beautiful Buddhist monks or sanyasis? I certainly have, though not many that is true. The great teachers have always met us where we are. They do not force the absolute highest truth upon us, but help us to the next step we are ready for.
empty0grace 6 months ago
@empty0grace Look deeper at what an 'evil' desire is. Most often, perhaps always, it's simply an estrangement of a 'good' desire. The unfulfilled desire to be loved, when abandoned, can become anger and loathing. The blockage of being prisoned can become frustration and rage. They are all the desire for one thing, and that's why they're neither good nor bad. But we do misdirect them sometimes, oftentimes, through our wrong concepts and beliefs about the world. With clarity, all desire is fine.
Walley666 2 months ago
@Walley666 Hi Walley, thanks for responding to my comment. When I say evil, I mean it in the buddhist sense of unwholesome, that which brings suffering. But even in that I disagree slightly with you in that "unwholesome" is not just a question of misdirection. Because clarity will not always save you or others from the unwholesome consequences of such thoughts, emotions, words and deeds. Of course we need not judge, but restraint is necessary, or "sila" moral discipline as the Buddha called it.
empty0grace 2 months ago
thanks for sharing this is a great message. I'm curious where are you?
Zarat818 6 months ago
Thanks for being yourself!
sborowsky 6 months ago
Thank you!
Mikak100 6 months ago