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- Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:29 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: life is indeed suffering
- Replies: 2
- Views: 889
Re: life is indeed suffering
Well if it is peace of mind you want meditation can really help with that. How? Any kind of meditation implies focusing your atention on something else than your thoughts. Focusing on the breath or on the body or on a color or any other kind of object of meditation. Doing this you will undoubtably a...
- Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:41 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Remaining enlightened masters?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1971
Re: Remaining enlightened masters?
My question is why these powers were so commonly seen in the past, and what has changed in the past that presently we see none of them? Well what most likely changed is the fact that people are now far less gulable then they used to be. Now we are way more suspicios of anyone displaying any kind of...
- Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:32 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: the 4th Jhana and Carl Jung
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1332
Re: the 4th Jhana and Carl Jung
who can teach me how to reach 2nd jhana and become invisible?
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 11:57 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: the 4th Jhana and Carl Jung
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1332
the 4th Jhana and Carl Jung
In his work Carl Jung spoke about the "colective unconsciosness" that all humans are linked to. He theorised that if one could tap into this so called colective unconsciusness one could control this reality as he would in a lucid dream. In my opinion this sounds like what buddhist and yogi...
- Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:53 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Why is enlightenment so hard for monks?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1297
Why is enlightenment so hard for monks?
I can understand why it is hard for lay people because of the way they conduct their life.A lay person spends most of their life developing and reinforcing attachment and craving, they also have none or very little meditation practice so I can see how it is hard to quiet the mind to the point of exp...
- Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:18 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: what is the cause of Avidyā(ignorance)?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14095
Re: what is the cause of Avidyā(ignorance)?
Ignorance doesn't have a discernible root cause, since it is itself the root cause of beginningless samsara.. This is interesting but how can samsara be beginningless and nibbana permanent since enlightenment would be the end of samsara and the beginning of nibbana(at least for the one becoming enl...
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:07 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: what is the cause of Avidyā(ignorance)?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14095
Re: what is the cause of Avidyā(ignorance)?
No beginning to it so no cause. Everything that has a beginning has an end so everything that has an end has a beginning. If through enlightenment ignorance is permanently abandoned that means ignorance ends so it must also have a beginning. Another reasoning for why ignorance should have a cause i...
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:56 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: what is the cause of Avidyā(ignorance)?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14095
what is the cause of Avidyā(ignorance)?
as the title says i want to know what is the cause of Avidyā(ignorance)? as it is stated in the description of Saṅkhāra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankhara" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ignorance is the cause of craving and craving is the cause of suffering. So what is t...
- Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:13 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Forceful Enlightenment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4594
Re: Forceful Enlightenment
What I had in mind was something more like using the supernormal powers (iddhi/siddhis/abhijna) in order to control the mind of another person in such a way that you would forcefully make that person enter jhana and then force his consciousness to have insight into the nature of reality. This would ...
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:43 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Forceful Enlightenment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4594
Re: Forceful Enlightenment
Tell me more abouth phowa.
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:30 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Forceful Enlightenment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4594
Forceful Enlightenment
Is there any whay to achieve such a thing as forceful enlightenment? By this I mean forcing another person to become enlightened(or at least to start walking on the path to enlightenment). I wonder if one way to do this is through the use of iddhi(supernormal powers) . I am aware that the usual opin...