Topic: Buddhist sayings

[erik]

Buddhism is actually very pragmatic. Buddhism is not an imposition on reality. It’s not a constructed philosophy that forces human beings to proceed according to rigid directives that take no account of the diversity of experience.

[erik]

We see our circumstances, not simply as an open environment – but in terms of how we can manipulate them as the project managers of our lives. We want some things, reject others, and the rest merges into the wallpaper of comfortable oblivion. This causes us to scurry around in a constant attempt to make the world conform to the preferences prompted by our conditioning.

[Jahn]

Emptiness is the moment before a situation is born. Emptiness is comprehension. Emptiness is astonishment or wordless wonder. Emptiness is the quality of sensation that is neither one thing nor another. These are all reflections of emptiness.

Well, Emptiness  is just that -Emptiness.

Life is like a bag, you have to fill it with something. If you don't fill the bag, then why carry it, then why have a life?

[erik]

No book of truth can contain Dharma – because Dharma speaks to every style of confusion; and the styles of confusion are as variegated as the cultures, societies, and epochs in which we live. The Song of the Owl Headed Dakini is a stirring anthem to freedom and to the sheer glee evoked by direct insight into the nature of reality.

[erik]

Well, Emptiness  is just that -Emptiness.

Life is like a bag, you have to fill it with something. If you don't fill the bag, then why carry it, then why have a life?

The emptiness Buddhists talk about is not nothingness, but rather the fact that it is us who create a huge amount of causal relations between people and things with and inside our minds. Once you manage to strip your mind and existence of all these causalities (as Don Juan seems to have accomplished) you could see the true state of affairs - emptiness.

[Jahn]

The emptiness Buddhists talk about is not nothingness, but rather the fact that it is us who create a huge amount of causal relations between people and things with and inside our minds. Once you manage to strip your mind and existence of all these causalities (as Don Juan seems to have accomplished) you could see the true state of affairs - emptiness.

Okey, the prerequisites for Controlled folly.

[erik]

When we open our perception, we do not feel constrained to anticipate events or people's possible reactions. We stop registering every being detected by our perceptual sonar in terms of our preconceptions. Perception then begins to expand beyond its set boundaries. Once perception has begun to open we're led naturally toward the liberation in our responses, which is known as whole-hearted intention.

[erik]

Awakened-mind warriors need no territory. Their refuge is the security of insecurity. Their refuge is the territory of intrinsic space, which is self-validating without the requirement of reference points.

[erik]

It is important to experience our emotional energies simply and directly. Our emotions are a spectrum of fluid and fluent energies, and experiencing their energy fields is the purpose of our exploration.

[erik]

Vajrayana requires the courage to dance with the tension of the moment-of not knowing the who, what, why or how of that moment. You have to let go of always trying to control yourself and your situation, and leap into the present moment.

[Jahn]

Awakened-mind warriors need no territory. Their refuge is the security of insecurity. Their refuge is the territory of intrinsic space, which is self-validating without the requirement of reference points.

Do you want to leave the harassments of this World?
then take a walk out in the minefield - noone will follow you, not even the grossest bastards or any petty tyrants.

In fact more spiritual people should contemplate on the possibility to walk out into the minefield. If not, only as to test one way to freedom, and to finally get out of the armchair philosophy (quotes) :-)

[erik]

Do you want to leave the harassments of this World?
then take a walk out in the minefield - noone will follow you, not even the grossest bastards or any petty tyrants.

In fact more spiritual people should contemplate on the possibility to walk out into the minefield. If not, only as to test one way to freedom, and to finally get out of the armchair philosophy (quotes) :-)

It takes a bit of contemplation to get the meaning of the statement I posted.

[erik]

Because the world around us is the ‘form’ in which we attempt to establish our sense of self-existence, reflections of emptiness tend to be interpreted as ‘disturbing’.

[Ke-ke wan]

In fact more spiritual people should contemplate on the possibility to walk out into the minefield. If not, only as to test one way to freedom, and to finally get out of the armchair philosophy (quotes) :-)

Best way, but not the easiest way.

[erik]

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.