Are we on the right track in learning Buddha

[tktru]

And what did he teach us?

He used to call everybody sir, and was always polite.
He never used harsh words.
He never made him self bigger than others.
When he quoted, he told always that it is his own believe.
He used to express only his own experiences.
He did not express knowledge as understanding.
He answered every quote as it would be given to him.
He toke the gifts with honor even he did not know how to use them.
He showed us, that our knowledge is useless.
He showed us our impatient.
He showed us our incapacity to teach.
He showed us our quick tendency to aversion.
He showed us how far we are from the insight of Buddha Dharma.

May we are able to take his gifts and learn so that it will be wholesome for everyone of us.

Are we on the right track in learning Buddha?

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[Hanzze]

"does one know the right view still unenlightened" and "if enlightened, would he measure others in a way of right and wrong"

Yes one knows if one has take refuge to the Buddha and then one knows what is right view and what is wrong view.
You tend to transform the subject into "others" when the subject that is measured actually is "view". Why is this personalization?

Kind regards

Who views?
Refuge might clean the lens but not the view.

An other concept of "right" I guess is the wrong track in learning Buddha.

The same would be if we ask our self: "Who at least wanted a brake or needed a break?"
Well even if we try to have it, it comes, again and again. I which phenomena ever, what is not solved, comes again.

Countless

Is it unwholesome to give nobody and nothing a break?

[ground]

Who views?

View views.

Refuge might clean the lens but not the view.

When there is clinging there is no capacity to take refuge.


Kind regards

[Hanzze]

view views

but regarding refuge: It is sometimes a beginning clinging, a lasting clinging, or a last clinging.

Refuge is just like a break. Is it a matter of of the name "refuge" or "what to seek refuge in"? What is the intension of refuge? Another escape?

No more violence as in refuge camps...

[ground]

Hanzze

as always you continue to perplex yourself with your own words.

Or in other words:

clinging aggregates.

The Buddha however did not remain silent. So you would infer that it was due to ["his"] clinging aggregates?
He taught right view due to ["his"] clinging aggregates?

If there is "following in his footsteps" what other thing is there to do than to refer to his words?

Why do "you" always misconstrue the Buddhas words as ignorance? Would "you" do that if there weren't any clinging aggregates?
Guess a modern term for "clinging aggregates" is "projection".


Kind regards

[Hanzze]

Who projects and who is viewing?
What you refer as Buddha and what to his words?

To the "footsteps" and the question about refuge, did the Buddha took refuge?

Maybe "reflection" might be a "right" track in learning Buddha. A kind of: "Never give you a brake"

[Mr. G]

Hanzze

as always you continue to perplex yourself with your own words.

^This

[Hanzze]

"from Latin perplexus, from per- thoroughly + plexus involved" did you mean that?
I am not sure, if it is good to be involved. That was not what the Buddha try to teach, I guess.

[Mr. G]

"from Latin perplexus, from per- thoroughly + plexus involved" did you mean that?
I am not sure, if it is good to be involved. That was not what the Buddha try to teach, I guess.

Hanzee,

What is the question or comment you are trying to make?

[Hanzze]

"from Latin perplexus, from per- thoroughly + plexus involved" did you mean that?
I am not sure, if it is good to be involved. That was not what the Buddha try to teach, I guess.

Hanzee,

What is the question or comment you are trying to make?

Mr. Gordo,

that would run out into perplex. And who whats to perplex somebody.

[Mr. G]

Mr. Gordo,

that would run out into perplex. And who whats to perplex somebody.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you're writing due to your lack of command over the English language.

[Hanzze]

That is indeed possible, thats why I looked to Latin to make no mistakes. Let's think about it.

[Mr. G]

That is indeed possible, thats why I looked to Latin to make no mistakes. Let's think about it.

Uh, no Hanzee, it's not your Latin, but your inability to compose an english sentence that is comprehensible. This is not your fault though, as you are obviously not brought up in a English speaking country.

[Adamantine]

That is indeed possible, thats why I looked to Latin to make no mistakes. Let's think about it.

Uh, no Hanzee, it's not your Latin, but your inability to compose an english sentence that is comprehensible. This is not your fault though, as you are obviously not brought up in a English speaking country.

If the pic his accurate, Hanzee is a monkey. In which case he's doing a great job of writing in english!

[Tara]

If the pic his accurate, Hanzee is a monkey. In which case he's doing a great job of writing in english!

rt slopes off to slap own wrists - in a dark corner of a room far far away ....

[Hanzze]

Actually it should reflect a kind of contemplative capacity or sometimes a "hmm, but..." maybe some innocence, naturally it looks more this way



but I used to abstain to show it, as refections are seen sometimes personally and causes strange reactions. Maybe I am on the right way of shame.

[Adamantine]

Actually it should reflect a kind of contemplative capacity or sometimes a "hmm, but..." maybe some innocence, naturally it looks more this way



but I used to abstain to show it, as refections are seen sometimes personally and causes strange reactions. Maybe I am on the right way of shame.

Nice pic! It's like a cute boogeyman

[Hanzze]

A good hint, do you thinks some "boogeyman" are even more on the right track? You know, this guys without shoes and dont clean them self with shampoo and so on.
Those guys, which don't use letters, TV and houses and eat what they find. You may have seen one cute on TV.
What do you think?

[Adamantine]

A good hint, do you thinks some "boogeyman" are even more on the right track? You know, this guys without shoes and dont clean them self with shampoo and so on.
Those guys, which don't use letters, TV and houses and eat what they find. You may have seen one cute on TV.
What do you think?

I think the real old-school yogis let their hair and nails grow naturally, without grooming-- no time to interrupt their retreats for such nonsense-- plus it becomes a mirror of the 'natural' state, acceptance of all as is. So monkeys are ahead of the game in that regard. But then there's also the metaphor of 'monkey-mind', and i think the mischief and aggression of monkeys may be succumbing to the 'natural' in the opposite sense of Buddha-nature.

[Hanzze]

...not even in 100 lives a monkey could make as much unwholesome acts as most of the unaggressive. Maybe it is because he is just not involved.