It's not often that I read anything here that really makes me smile.catmoon wrote:
This did for some reason.
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It's not often that I read anything here that really makes me smile.catmoon wrote:
Teaching melon pushing cat? Moon in water. Our mind fishes the moon reflection out of the water for investigation. By investigation of mind, the reflections are easier seen.catmoon wrote:
Obviously, the watermellon is pulling the cat out of the lake...DarwidHalim wrote:This watermelon is pushing the cat out of a lake.
[Serious note] Those sort of people do not acheive rainbow body, or any much, for that matter.Andrew108 wrote: Then there are those who teach themselves from books and become their own teachers..
"Dying a good death" is important, as one who has seen a lot of violent or long wasting-disease deaths. It's as important for the living left-behind as for the dying person.Andrew108 wrote:Talking about death is a good one. Buddhists think that they can work a few tricks into dying and get something out of it. When I saw my Mum die I realised that you just die and there's no room for contrived tricks or techniques. I hated all the Buddhist books about how to die well. How to have a good death. It's an industry preying on our fear. Just like Madhyamaka makes geniuses of us all and Dzogchen will give us rainbow bodies.
DarwidHalim wrote:
There is no Madyamaka there, there is no Dzogchen there, there is no Mahayana there, there is no Theravada there. Why should we care about it?
In which case there is no Dharma Wheel there. There is no Buddhist forum there. There is only reality precisely seen as possible and that is all.DarwidHalim wrote: There is no Madyamaka there, there is no Dzogchen there, there is no Mahayana there, there is no Theravada there. Why should we care about it?
Dad.conebeckham wrote:This is all well and good, Watermelons, cats, and yogic drowning, but who's going to get my son a job, that's what I wanna know?
Not really a crisis of faith. I still consider Buddhist and Dzogchen methods the best at cutting through all the suffering that goes on in the world . It's just that I don't try to get anything anymore. I see sanity, openness and the wish to communicate as the real goals to aim for. Basic sanity means not running away from the ordinary. Openness means not having a strategy or wish to control someone or condition them with Buddhist views. And wish to communicate means talking to anyone about anything and hoping to be of benefit. For example I see sex as a wish to communicate and so I'm not hung up on Buddhist morality so much these days.viniketa wrote:Do I detect a bit of a crises in faith, here, Andrew108? It's an easy 'view' to fall into. Once the falling starts, stopping the falling is difficult. Even if just seen as 'metaphors', the lessons of Buddha are important.
Perhaps you need a rest from Buddhist forums
P.S. Apologies if I am misreading and becoming too serious!
Ah, at least you are still sane, then.Andrew108 wrote:Openness means not having a strategy or wish to control someone or condition them with Buddhist views.
You are both wrong, the cat is pushing the watermelon out of the lake while the watermelon is pushing the cat into the lake. Look closely and apply some physics.viniketa wrote:Obviously, the watermellon is pulling the cat out of the lake...DarwidHalim wrote:This watermelon is pushing the cat out of a lake.