Topic: Buddhist sayings

[erik]

it is done

How about you getting out of this thread and posting these things elsewhere? Most of what you say has little to do with the quotes posted here.

[runningstream]

 Go head the way you always do
Thats Near the least of your concerns
I did try to warn you

[erik]

Real compassion, from the perspective of Dzogchen, is nonduality. One cannot have compassion without wisdom – compassion can only be compassion where there is wisdom, where they are nondual.

[erik]

It is important to take the understanding that has been discovered during this meditation practice out into our lives. This understanding needs to move beyond our meditation cushion to be a real experience. Friend, Enemy, Stranger has a 'feel good factor' that puts us in danger of becoming satisfied with the comfortable feeling of equanimity discovered through the practice.

[erik]

I don't think Buddhism is something that can be taught,  by reading. I think it is in your heart or deeply ingrained in your way of life.

If it's not in you, it's just not in you.

Then you know about these things more than Buddha did, and if you don't have it in you - you are stuffed without any hope or future.

[erik]

Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence. With mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death.

[erik]

The mind cannot be controlled and forced to behave. The mind will do what it does based on your individual patterning. The more you try to force a pattern out of the mind, the more prominence it will have to your life. Similarly you will not succeed in forcing a pattern into the mind even if it would seem preferable to your existing mind-state.

[Ke-ke wan]

If you say you can not do a thing, then you can't.

[erik]

If you say you can not do a thing, then you can't.

Lori, when will you even try to understand what is said? Neither love nor emotions will substitute that.
The point here is that you cannot force anything out of your mind. You cannot get rid of things in your head just by talking differently or changing a haircut.
The change is slow. It takes months and years of cleaning your Tonal side and meditations to change the deepest layers of your mind.
There are no shortcuts. I thought you understood that after you have tried all sorts of shortcuts.
Remember the Ring of Naguals? All your other claims to glory and spiritual heights that were unfounded and unsustainable?
That is a point of the statement I posted.
And yes, becoming a true Buddhist is a slow road of learning and meditations.

[Nichi]

Remember the Ring of Naguals?

The "Ring of Naguals": was that a group like Toltec Nagual, or is it a CC reference?

[erik]

The "Ring of Naguals": was that a group like Toltec Nagual, or is it a CC reference?

It was a group of forum members who claimed they were naguals or at least very advanced spiritual travellers.

[Ke-ke wan]

Juhani, I'm at reflection point right now.

You and I have been doing this dance for a long time.

I don't have time for it anymore.  Last year I was nearly
Murdered.  But I lived. I am still here. 
I have had so many near death experiences and so many rebirth
That I can not afford to take anything for granted and I can
Not afford to waste energy arguing or discussing
In circles with you. 

We can have a conversation if you like.  Or we can speak
From another place.

I threw a gemstone in the lake for you. 

[erik]

Juhani, I'm at reflection point right now.

You and I have been doing this dance for a long time.

I don't have time for it anymore.  Last year I was nearly
Murdered.  But I lived. I am still here. 
I have had so many near death experiences and so many rebirth
That I can not afford to take anything for granted and I can
Not afford to waste energy arguing or discussing
In circles with you. 

We can have a conversation if you like.  Or we can speak
From another place.

I threw a gemstone in the lake for you.

Up to you. You know what it is about.

[runningstream]

Like a Buddhist terrier with a bone
Pattern chasing tail
Wisdom stop
Carry your bags for you
I don't see them
Perhaps in your mind
Teach something in your own words

Ask the question not just where and when it suits you
Patterns
Today I am the wind
Drinker of naguals
Who travel circles
Wind
Whipping sky
Watch the roof
Buddhism I will teach you now
Welcome
I am simon simonism
Welcome

[runningstream]

Buddhist my ass
Show me your teeth your not kidding
Anyone