@KeniLeeBurgess Heaven and hell are not mental places. There are a myriad of stories of Boddhisattvas, etc. attesting to the authenticity of both these worlds. Remember Brahma? Indra? The one problem with neo-Hindus/Buddhists is that they always always try to adjust to post-modern science. Mystics who are situated in samadhi, etc. can view things which are beyond the purview of our 5 senses. Trust them. Follow them. Respect them. Who else can be more righteous than them?
@btbam006 What are you doing right now? Just do it, moment to moment. Live in the moment of nowness. Forget the past, don't long for future, don't linger in the presence. Eat your favourite snacks and drink your most loved brand of cofee or beer. If you like icecream or a milkshake then eat it, drink it completely. Enjoy youir Life. This is a message of Buddhism & Taoism.
@Wenbier Your views about buddhist practices and enlightenment are insuficient. The first Buddha's sermon taught to five ascetics is about sufferings of Life, of our painful birth, falling terminaly ill, helplessness of old age and sufferings of process of dying. You know what suffering is, don't you? Do you want to be free of sufferings?
Do you want to attain everlasting peace, spiritual satisfaction and absolut freedom in time & space? Find a competent, trully enlightened teacher and learn.
@KeniLeeBurgess Thank you for your respond. You are right. Thinking is good. Non thinking is good. Before thinking is good. Above thinking is good. How old are you? Your body? Your Mind? Show me your mind, describe me your Mind in words! One of my long term teacher Seung Sahn Sunim told me before his death: " Don't make anything. Only go straight DON'T KNOW! Moment to moment, just do it. Hungry-eat. Tired-sleep. That's all." So, I am relaxed. My mind is easy and simple. Drinking tea or Coke.
@dtseringdorje Who told you to not think? Only don't know? Who thought of this approach? To see thinking as thinking and to see non thinking as non thinking is to understand the mind of discrimination. The myriad transformation body of the Buddha is simply the mind creating itself moment by moment. Thought by Thought. A stone buddha in the garden has no thought. A living buddha realizes this because he see his thoughts. May your life go well.
@Wenbier The three major eastern faiths of Judaism, Christianity and the Islamic traditions are centered around martyrdom. Sacrificing yourself for God. Apparently you do not undersatnd Buddhism. You create heaven and hell...pleasure and pain. They are not physical places. They are mental places. Even your beliefs that they exist somewhere in another dimension are just thoughts. Realizing to live fully means sometimes things will be good or bad is just how life is. May your life go well.
It seems most fitting for a Buddist to die while sitting. Indeed, this teacher seems to take great delight in this aspect of another teachers death. I am a spec in the universe; I am oblivion. Buddism is the very religion of nothingness, and in western culture sitting is the posture of doing nothing. Want to accomplish nothing in life? Want to die expecting another life, but finding Hell? BUDDISM is the way eternal suffering.
If you have thinking, this thinking will kill you. If you cut off your thinking the Truth is already in front of you. Cutting off thinking means go only twofold-question practice:
1. What are you doing now? I am sitting, reading, cooking, watching TV, running, sleeping etc.
2. How am I keeping my mind now? Only don't know.
Practise like this moment to moment and you will change your karma. That means you changing your life, from confusion to clear mind. This will help your life. Try it.
@mc1ate1mad1cow You have been to Heaven and Hell? If they are not mental constructions...where are they? I want to go. Take me.
KeniLeeBurgess 5 days ago
@KeniLeeBurgess Heaven and hell are not mental places. There are a myriad of stories of Boddhisattvas, etc. attesting to the authenticity of both these worlds. Remember Brahma? Indra? The one problem with neo-Hindus/Buddhists is that they always always try to adjust to post-modern science. Mystics who are situated in samadhi, etc. can view things which are beyond the purview of our 5 senses. Trust them. Follow them. Respect them. Who else can be more righteous than them?
mc1ate1mad1cow 5 days ago
@btbam006 What are you doing right now? Just do it, moment to moment. Live in the moment of nowness. Forget the past, don't long for future, don't linger in the presence. Eat your favourite snacks and drink your most loved brand of cofee or beer. If you like icecream or a milkshake then eat it, drink it completely. Enjoy youir Life. This is a message of Buddhism & Taoism.
dtseringdorje 4 months ago
@Wenbier Your views about buddhist practices and enlightenment are insuficient. The first Buddha's sermon taught to five ascetics is about sufferings of Life, of our painful birth, falling terminaly ill, helplessness of old age and sufferings of process of dying. You know what suffering is, don't you? Do you want to be free of sufferings?
Do you want to attain everlasting peace, spiritual satisfaction and absolut freedom in time & space? Find a competent, trully enlightened teacher and learn.
dtseringdorje 4 months ago
@KeniLeeBurgess Thank you for your respond. You are right. Thinking is good. Non thinking is good. Before thinking is good. Above thinking is good. How old are you? Your body? Your Mind? Show me your mind, describe me your Mind in words! One of my long term teacher Seung Sahn Sunim told me before his death: " Don't make anything. Only go straight DON'T KNOW! Moment to moment, just do it. Hungry-eat. Tired-sleep. That's all." So, I am relaxed. My mind is easy and simple. Drinking tea or Coke.
dtseringdorje 4 months ago
@dtseringdorje Who told you to not think? Only don't know? Who thought of this approach? To see thinking as thinking and to see non thinking as non thinking is to understand the mind of discrimination. The myriad transformation body of the Buddha is simply the mind creating itself moment by moment. Thought by Thought. A stone buddha in the garden has no thought. A living buddha realizes this because he see his thoughts. May your life go well.
KeniLeeBurgess 4 months ago
@Wenbier The three major eastern faiths of Judaism, Christianity and the Islamic traditions are centered around martyrdom. Sacrificing yourself for God. Apparently you do not undersatnd Buddhism. You create heaven and hell...pleasure and pain. They are not physical places. They are mental places. Even your beliefs that they exist somewhere in another dimension are just thoughts. Realizing to live fully means sometimes things will be good or bad is just how life is. May your life go well.
KeniLeeBurgess 4 months ago
It seems most fitting for a Buddist to die while sitting. Indeed, this teacher seems to take great delight in this aspect of another teachers death. I am a spec in the universe; I am oblivion. Buddism is the very religion of nothingness, and in western culture sitting is the posture of doing nothing. Want to accomplish nothing in life? Want to die expecting another life, but finding Hell? BUDDISM is the way eternal suffering.
Wenbier 10 months ago
what is that stick he slaps? Is it bamboo?
Frankiebenzino187 1 year ago
If you have thinking, this thinking will kill you. If you cut off your thinking the Truth is already in front of you. Cutting off thinking means go only twofold-question practice:
1. What are you doing now? I am sitting, reading, cooking, watching TV, running, sleeping etc.
2. How am I keeping my mind now? Only don't know.
Practise like this moment to moment and you will change your karma. That means you changing your life, from confusion to clear mind. This will help your life. Try it.
dtseringdorje 1 year ago