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- Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:43 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
The Discriminating Mind Right understanding ultimately means non-discrimination-seeing all people as the same, neither good nor bad, neither clever nor foolish; not thinking that honey is sweet and good and some other food is bitter. Although you may eat several kinds of food, when you absorb and e...
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:13 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
I cannot recall that I have come across such "accomplished" trolling ever. Really ... there are slight shifts in his responses as to the degree of potential provocation (of course there always has to be a counterpart for it to work), also slight shifts as to his language skills in diverse...
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:06 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
Dear friends, angry, relaxed, in the mood of a task or seeing something right or wrong... Marmalade made a real good pool Practicing, awareness and metta Yes, Hanzze, I'm searching. And I say what I mean. Tonight, in a revealing interchange, I came into something of a conflict with a moderator on D...
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:59 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
Dear friends, angry, relaxed, in the mood of a task or seeing something right or wrong...
Marmalade made a real good pool
Practicing, awareness and metta
Marmalade made a real good pool
Practicing, awareness and metta
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:52 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
Dear friends,
While I am writing here, I am aware of that I am killing.
When ever there is a name of what we are killing it will have unwholesome effects.
Stay natural and mindful.
While I am writing here, I am aware of that I am killing.
When ever there is a name of what we are killing it will have unwholesome effects.
Stay natural and mindful.
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:50 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
That is why we need to be careful when we use right and wrong. From my view, there is no different between take somebodies life or banner him. But it would not have that much unwholesome effects on whom who is bannered. For those who banner, it will come again and again. The problem is to believe in...
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:40 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
But it is exactly because the Tathagata has sympathy for living beings that he teaches them what is right and what is wrong. THIS is his task! Why? Because the beings are bond in samsara and HE has sympathy for them. Kind regards As long as there is a task there is no compassion and there will be a...
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
Banner for example, is that a kind of killing?
What do you think Mr. Gordo, is killing right or wrong?
What do you think Mr. Gordo, is killing right or wrong?
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:16 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
What does killing mean?TMingyur wrote:Killing is "wrong" in the context of dharma, Wouldn't you agree?
Refrain from killing is "right" in the context of dharma, Wouldn't you agree?
Kind regards
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:44 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
"2. The "there is no right or wrong and we are all one" fantasy" From my awareness, there is no right and wrong. But if you deny that there is right and wrong in the context of the Buddha's teachings then you reject he Buddha's teachings and we do not need to discuss any further...
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:35 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
[1] In the case of words that the Tathagata knows to be unfactual, untrue, unbeneficial (or: not connected with the goal), unendearing & disagreeable to others, he does not say them. [2] In the case of words that the Tathagata knows to be factual, true, unbeneficial, unendearing & disagreea...
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:49 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
"1. Acknowledging the particular human condition of individuals ..." I guess that is very important and it needs the knowledge of different conditions, as if it is not known, there could grow some different level between the "other" and "me". There easy grows: He is mor...
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:08 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
I guess one good way to attain more awareness is starting to listen to other opinions. "Listen to" is fine. But this does not necessarily entail "accept" or "agree to". Kind regards Do you have a task? When you have a task you can not easily listen, your task will be m...
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 7:28 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
I guess one good way to attain more awareness is starting to listen to other opinions. If we are just present and observe what is going on, without the desire of running between, we can not only find out the desire of others, we also find out our own desire, hatred and fear. Attaining peace, needs a...
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:48 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Through purified mind is there compassion.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8194
Re: Through purified mind is there compassion.
Dear White Lotus,
kindness with love can at times be selfish and no different from greed.
kindness with love can at times be selfish and no different from greed.
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:32 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
Dear CSEe, I think it is like the picture of your fish. When we are not very mindful we like to share something, here it was the fish, but in the background we share our "self". When ever we share something that is very close to us, we mostly share our self. Do you think awareness is somet...
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:10 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
- Replies: 101
- Views: 26273
Re: Knowledge and Awareness in Buddha
Dear CSEe,
do you think it is possible to increase the speed of the purification process?
(By the way, is that you on your picture?)
do you think it is possible to increase the speed of the purification process?
(By the way, is that you on your picture?)
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:26 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: practising and non-practising Buddhists?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6992
Re: practising and non-practising Buddhists?
Marmalade,
then please sorry for taking your time.
then please sorry for taking your time.
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:24 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Through purified mind is there compassion.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8194
Re: Through purified mind is there compassion.
That is indeed a hint.TMingyur wrote:How about practice instructions taught by kind teachers and rely one's experience?Hanzze wrote:One might not have .... I guess one can develop it endless ... ... Don't you think that ...
Kind regards
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:13 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: practising and non-practising Buddhists?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6992
Re: practising and non-practising Buddhists?
Practising moral virtue and being a 'good' person is not what defines a Buddhist - it is Refuge in the 3 Jewels. Buddhists, Moslems, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Jains - all may practice moral discipline, but for quite different reasons. The motivation for a Buddhist is derived from Buddha's teachings...