Living with the self by Rich Taido pt 1

[mr1000stackz]

I was actually looking for a video showing somebody living rich in the "wealthy" sense, not a feeling of "richness" in one's belief of reality, the body and the mind. Sound like a bunch of "if I say it, i believe it and it becomes true."

[DonkeyofHeaven]

Life is suffering. Suffering is passion. Life is passion. A Life of Compassion is living with suffering.

[Amirmourad]

Life is not suffering, you have only heard the nonsense which scholars and interpreters have said regarding the teachings of Buddhism. Do you have any idea how something said only last week can become severely distorted today? And you have a whole range of different interpretations arising from just one small fragment of a statement.

Life is not suffering, life in itself is just fine. It is unconsciousness of the tendencies of one's mind which causes suffering, not life.

[identityisrelative]

I't isn't even the tendencies of mind that causes suffering: it's a person's clinging to those feelings. A sense of independence from them. "I am confronting the world." There is no duality. Although there is an "I" a "me" a "you"...it is entirely transitory. That is the heart of what he's trying to convey.

[Amirmourad]

Clinging to objects is the most common form of mental tendency which causes suffering. Especially if it involves pleasure of the senses. Because certain peoples cannot experience pleasure of the senses without developing some kind of attachment, it has been said right from the beginning to abandon the whole project, get rid of desire altogether. This is a safety mechanism for the common peoples. Otherwise, desire is not a problem at all. In itself it is just neutral.

[identityisrelative]

First of all, I will not continue to expand on what I think the person in the video meant. Second, and in response to your last post: we are sense-dependent entities. We cannot deny our physical makeup. Nurtuting what we find when we sit, without predetermined ideas of grandeur, has no ill benifits. We just become more aware of ourselves and our existance.

[Amirmourad]

Being sense dependent is only an aspect of this entity. This entity is multidimensional. What we refer to as the physical is an outer layer from the essence of being. It is just an accumulation of matter. Simiarly is the mind, the mind is still external to one's fundamental essence, it is an accumulation of sensory impressions. One's ultimate nature is not dependent upon the activity of the senses or the mind, it remains unaffected by the things that happen in those areas.

[Amirmourad]

My initial message was in response to an easlier post, not in regards to the speaker in the video.

[mofo3069]

nice baseboard

[zendorro]

A nice commentary on zen practice.

This is very basic stuff, and yet so many senior so called experienced zen people don't seem to have a clue how to implement this "basic stuff".

Why is this?