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Tools of the Path => Buddhism [Public] => Topic started by: Builder on July 31, 2010, 09:06:44 PM
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It is only possible to find security in insecurity - by establishing insecurity as security
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No one can understand themselves. All you can hope to achieve is to be transparent - and allow undestanding to occur naturally
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Nice...
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Boredom marks the beginning of realisation
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The path is connected more to your buttocks than your heart - in terms of understanding the teachings at least. You have to sit.
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We need to be willing to remain with the taste of our confusion as the texture of life and allow it to be the random pattern of our everyday lives
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Worry is the mind's attempt to stay safe
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The path is connected more to your buttocks than your heart - in terms of understanding the teachings at least. You have to sit.
I like that
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The hell of being a practitioner is the state in which we begin to see our neuroses and yet we continue to afflict ourselves with them
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Karma evaporates as soon as we see the pattern
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So true..
Love this one..
Worry is the mind's attempt to stay safe
and..
It is only possible to find security in insecurity - by establishing insecurity as security
and... ha! they are all great, thanks Juhani!
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When one sits, one discovers that the secondary function of thought is to prove that one exists. Without thoughts, one has no reference points. Without thoughts, there is nothing to prove that one is solid, permanent, separate, continuous, and defined.
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Being referenceless is not death.
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When Lord Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn't referring simply to superficial problems like illness and injury, but to the fact that the dissatisfied nature of the mind itself is suffering. No matter how much of something you get, it never satisfies your desire for better or more. This unceasing desire is suffering; its nature is emotional frustration.
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Enlightenment is our natural state, and so it is not surprising that it manifests from time to time. Unenlightenment is the constant activity in which we engage. We have to work at it all the time.
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The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
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Do not speak- unless it improves on silence.
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All philosophies are mental fabrications.
There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
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My religion is to live and die without regret.
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To integrate practice into everyday life, you should allow the spaciousness you discover in your sitting to overflow into your ordinary life experience.
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No matter how much of something you get, it never satisfies your desire for better or more. This unceasing desire is suffering; its nature is emotional frustration.
Oh yes, I know the feeling as of late. Buddha cure me of my idiocy. ;)
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All philosophies are mental fabrications.
There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
This one is great!
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Practice is a pain in the arse-literally. Practice is a pain in the anatomy of your body, speech and mind, and you have to have something greater than yourself to keep you going through that frustration. There has to be some kind of energy there that is not primarily self-orientated, self-validating, or self-referencing.
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Emotions come from frustration. The meaning of emotion is frustration in the sense that we are or might be unable to fulfill what we want. We discover our possible failure as something pathetic, and so we develop our tentacles or sharpen our claws to the extreme. The emotion is a way of competing with the projection. That is the mechanism of emotion. The whole point is that the projections have been our own manifestations all along.
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The problem with paying much attention at all to emotional states is that we must on some level believe that they are real if we are considering them at all. We reinforce our sense of egoic reality by examing and exploring them, much in the way Narcissis was enamored of his reflection. When we come to practice from that place, we create extra obstacles and encounter even greater resistance.
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The end of the road always reflects emptiness, because at the end of a journey, there is nowhere else to go.
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We need to generate some sense of intangible voyeurism in order to apprehend the ways in which emptiness and form cross-dress.
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Dzogchen approaches everything from the perspective of the primordial nondual state
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Only through the death of one moment can the next moment arise
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No-one else is responsible for how we perceive the world.
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No-one else is responsible for how we perceive the world.
Great! Kind of like the Second Agreement!
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Awareness means relinquishing the police state of karmic-vision and assuming personal responsibility
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The first fundamental certainty is the experience of unsatisfactoriness. Dukkha—unsatisfactoriness—is not what we are and where we are – but how we are. It’s the subjective quality of our experience that is being described as unsatisfactory. The problem lies in our way of seeing rather than in the material fabric of the world.
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The ‘Law of Karma’ is different from externally enforced societal law, because ‘karmic law’ is directly consequential and self-implementing. We perceive the world in a certain way, and react to it in accordance with that style of perception. That is what is meant by karma. There’s no injustice in this kind of ‘law’ apart from the injustice to the nondual state perpetrated by karmic patterning.
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Becoming a Buddhist is a process of continually becoming a Buddhist – of continually breaking through limitations and conditioned perception.
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To fall in love is to initiate the dissolution of the boundaries which fix limited ideas of ourselves. To be challenged or threatened by the outrageous transmission of romance is the living blood of Vajrayana.
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Impermanence and death are the joy of being. Impermanence and death are the continuity of existence.
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Whether there is stillness or movement, rage or lust, happiness or sadness – sustain recognition of total presence at all times in every situation.
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The more you disapprove of your own neuroses, the more of a problem they become
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The basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.
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Buddhism is a statement of our intrinsic goodness; and the possibility of discovering that intrinsic goodness.
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Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.
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Everything has to die in order to be born in the next moment and to experience it fully.