Confess yourself here for this new year occasion
- LastLegend
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Confess yourself here for this new year occasion
I confess I don't practice meditation as a Buddhist. Don't hate.
Confess yourself here!
Confess yourself here!
It’s eye blinking.
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No hate here I don't meditate as a Buddhist eitherLastLegend wrote:I confess I don't practice meditation as a Buddhist. Don't hate.
Confess yourself here!
My confession, I already confessed in the vegetarian thread
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Ok sisterreddust wrote:No hate here I don't meditate as a Buddhist eitherLastLegend wrote:I confess I don't practice meditation as a Buddhist. Don't hate.
Confess yourself here!
My confession, I already confessed in the vegetarian thread
I've never been to any retreat.
It’s eye blinking.
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I hate Lana Del Rey , and have a secret longing for Mangosteens.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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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!
Say what you think about me here.
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Formal and sometimes public confession of faults is pretty mainstream in aa number of Buddhist traditions.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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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...
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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And they can be helpful for someone who sometimes has unrealistic expectations projected onto him or her by well-meaning people.Simon E. wrote:Formal and sometimes public confession of faults is pretty mainstream in aa number of Buddhist traditions.
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They can. Also for those who are seeing the effects of their own actions and taking responsibility for them.Jikan wrote:And they can be helpful for someone who sometimes has unrealistic expectations projected onto him or her by well-meaning people.Simon E. wrote:Formal and sometimes public confession of faults is pretty mainstream in aa number of Buddhist traditions.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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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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Me too.Tsongkhapafan wrote:I confess that I all too easily give in to laziness and identify all too readily with a limited self.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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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.
ཁོང་ཁྲོ་སློང་མཁན་མེད་ན། བཟོད་པ་སུ་ལ་སྒོམ།
When there is no one to provoke anger, how shall we practice patience?
When there is no one to provoke anger, how shall we practice patience?
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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!
I can be very lazy about cultivating metta. Too lazy to love people!
Namu Amida Butsu
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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.
Not last night,
not this morning,
melon flowers bloomed.
~ Bassho
not this morning,
melon flowers bloomed.
~ Bassho
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Simon E. wrote:I hate Lana Del Rey...
Umm... I took the cookies from the cookie jar.
Yes me.
To become a rain man one must master the ten virtues and sciences.
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Jai Ma!
Not last night,
not this morning,
melon flowers bloomed.
~ Bassho
not this morning,
melon flowers bloomed.
~ Bassho
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I walk around nude at home when no one is around...