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09-28-2004, 10:22 AM | #61 | |||
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Ah Bruce.
My quote above referred primarily to Brianna & Marichiko's little tiff earlier on in this thread. Read the posts leading up to that comment and you should then understand its context. If you go back and read my posts slowly, thoroughly, you will see that I agree with you. Of course this is all there is. Now. Not illusions of religion or an original self. Quote:
But maybe you already know all of this. Maybe you don't see your personality as all-important, maybe you understand your family is just another evolvement of nature, perhaps you don't buy branded goods or watch pointless TV or concern yourself with anything other than true living - eating, sleeping, sex, stillness. If you have already put all this into practice I can only admire you. Quote:
Marichiko thanks for the info. I realised some of what I was saying was similar to Buddhism but not to that extent. I don't know about coming back to ease the suffering of every fellow being (although it is a comforting possibility), but I agree: Quote:
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09-28-2004, 12:05 PM | #62 | ||
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That was just a trout. I watched my father die over the course of 5 days from pneumonia induced by the general anaethestic the surgeons gave him in an attempt to repair a hip he had broken at age 80. Thank God, he was uncouncious the entire time. When he died at last, what remained was no longer my father. There was a body lying in that hospital bed, a body that I had no connection to and felt nothing for. My father's essence was gone, and I grieved that essence terribly. Quote:
All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows, As the wheel follows the hoof of the ox pulling a cart. Mind is the forerunner of all actions All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows, As surely as one's shadow." The Dhammapada And, Cat, the saying, "Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water; after enlightenment chop wood, carry water" is about the fact that we continue on with our earthly lives, enlightened or not. The WAY in which we regard chopping wood and carrying water will be very different, but we'll still do it. We will regard the world differently and so be able to act with "boddichitta" or loving-kindness. |
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