Confess yourself here for this new year occasion

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Confess yourself here for this new year occasion

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I confess I don't practice meditation as a Buddhist. Don't hate. :bow:


Confess yourself here!
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LastLegend wrote:I confess I don't practice meditation as a Buddhist. Don't hate. :bow:

Confess yourself here!
No hate here I don't meditate as a Buddhist either ;)

My confession, I already confessed in the vegetarian thread :roll:
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reddust wrote:
LastLegend wrote:I confess I don't practice meditation as a Buddhist. Don't hate. :bow:

Confess yourself here!
No hate here I don't meditate as a Buddhist either ;)

My confession, I already confessed in the vegetarian thread :roll:
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I hate Lana Del Rey , and have a secret longing for Mangosteens.
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The gap between my commitments and my conduct is far too wide. I'm lazy & lax with myself, but impatient with others--put together, that makes a hypocrite. I could go on but, as I said, lazy...
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I smell Christianity, so I will say: Since Jesus died on the cross for all our past and future sins, I have nothing to confess, since all is redeemed. How clever of him!
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Formal and sometimes public confession of faults is pretty mainstream in aa number of Buddhist traditions.
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Ah, oushi, didn't you hear of the "4 Forces"/ 4 Powers" ?
I don't find any link, but confessing is a means for clearing up and losing bad Karma.
The means is to say it openly (at least to oneself), don't hide it, regreting it(1), don't want to do it again (2), asking the Buddhas & Bodhisattvas for supporting this task (3) and dedicating the merits of ones sadhanas to this task (4).

But mainly it is about harming others. To be no Buddhist doesn't harm anybody. To say a lie harms.
If one only harms himself, it is a harm too.

I can confess right here, that in my real life I have to work on right speach and on concentration on my duties...
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Simon E. wrote:Formal and sometimes public confession of faults is pretty mainstream in aa number of Buddhist traditions.
And they can be helpful for someone who sometimes has unrealistic expectations projected onto him or her by well-meaning people.
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Jikan wrote:
Simon E. wrote:Formal and sometimes public confession of faults is pretty mainstream in aa number of Buddhist traditions.
And they can be helpful for someone who sometimes has unrealistic expectations projected onto him or her by well-meaning people.
They can. Also for those who are seeing the effects of their own actions and taking responsibility for them.
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I confess that I all too easily give in to laziness and identify all too readily with a limited self.
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Tsongkhapafan wrote:I confess that I all too easily give in to laziness and identify all too readily with a limited self.
Me too.
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I smoked quite a lot of weed in the new year party =(. My old friend
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I sometimes eat meat. :(
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I confess that I don't publicly confess things.
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I am reluctant to give up harmful short-term pleasure, often at the expense of others.
I can be very lazy about cultivating metta. Too lazy to love people! :toilet:
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A cup that is full can't be filled. Confession is simply to empty the cup. If we remove the religious baggage, we may just see an empty cup.
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Simon E. wrote:I hate Lana Del Rey...
:evil:

:techproblem:

Umm... I took the cookies from the cookie jar.

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Jai Ma!
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I walk around nude at home when no one is around...
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