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Wow I have never heard the path described with such clarity before. I feel like so many questions I had have been answered! The path is difficult, but truly simple!
I just plod along and am more than content to linger in what i do. I love the repetition of “the same old thing”. It feels comfortable, predictable, safe, and - above all - correct. The only time things go wrong is when i cut back on what I do. Arhantship? Gosh… I think there is a better chance of me reaching the moon on a feather. And I am MORE than content with that. We should trust where we are going. If we force ourselves down fiery roads on our wooden feet, we will just go POOF! I think for laypeople, being angsty about your progress is just going to make things worse. Enjoy yourself. Love the reading, the lectures, the meditation, the long walks. Why rush toward attainments, especially if you know they are - at least for now - out of reach. Look at the laypeople in Buddhist countries. They are not all clamouring for awakenings as if there is only one bus to catch. They are strolling gently, enjoying the view, and confidently moving forward. Since you are on the right path anyway, you will have HUGE amounts of time to progress. Enjoy the progress.
@@jaredwolfe4042 You have billions of years to perfect the Path. You’ve had countless aeons already, which is why you and I find ourselves in our current privileged position. This “escape the wicked, wicked world” mindset is a western one. There are some people who are born with severe mental and brain disadvantages. Do you imagine that only they are doomed to rebirth, while we must rush toward awakening because of our privilege? We are just as they. It’s just that in our “normal” bodies we might have the opportunity to shift the checker one space further along the board. All progress you make along the path is progress. To use rebirth as a threat instead of seeing it as an opportunity to improve is a very western view - like using hellfire to promote heaven. Saṃsāra is not an abnormality or wickedness waiting to be crushed. It is a perfectly normal part of what it means to be. Seeing it as the ONLY part is the abnormality.
Wonderful. Truly, a simple, precise and exacting summary of the Path. Thank-you deeply. Let me say, however it may seem to be differentiated by many, that to “serve and dwell in God” is the identical instruction by a different name on the pathway of Devotion. Likewise, to “establish in virtue and then establish in mindfulness” as you say here, as taught by the Buddha, is the path of Truth. Each, in the first steps, if informed by compassion, leads to right conduct, and each, in the second step, leads to the falling away of fabrications; even as clinging to the practice of mindfulness itself falls away, and becomes a natural inclination of mind, so too does the clinging to God fall away, and become the natural dwelling free of all grasping, leaving a state of Peace.
There's a book written on this - "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" by Chogyam Trungpa. Personally, I have stuck with one mantra, day in day out for over 11 years. After about 3 months, back in 2013, I wondered whether I'd kind of 'done' that mantra. Fortunately I continued and found there is no end to its benefits.
I am strictly Theravada. I've never been able to understand how anyone can mix and follow different lineages at the same time. I will further state that I am an atheist, and as such, I don't think the Buddha would mind.
7:16 the question is: where to find these people? I have yet to find a buddhist community in the west that would not be involved with some woke political activism. It's not a matter of political disagreement, or clinging to my own views, it's just that I would imagine that "seeing things as they really are" would make you aware of the complexity of political issues. Instead, it's always a typical college campus attitude: "progressives=good, conservatives=bad", even with very old practitioners. I would think that it's due to that overfocusing on the meditation methods, which leads to no real insight. But it's really sad nonetheless. It seems that to "wander alone, like a rhinoceros" is the only way to go today.
If you go by Suttas, the Buddha embraced quite a number of conservatives values like family, restraint, fewness of desires, moderation, and most of all personal responsibility. All of those are classical religious values I would say. That said, they are not _about politics_ at all! I would avoid places where politics takes center stage at all costs in Buddhist communities if liberation is your goal. The Dhamma will always be the loser in such situations. That said, there are a few online places where you can practice well. political activism has been condemned as wrong Speech by the Buddha numerous times (talk about ministers of state, talk about kings and queens, of wars etc...).
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I have no question. Thanks much!
Wow I have never heard the path described with such clarity before. I feel like so many questions I had have been answered! The path is difficult, but truly simple!
"What do I do next" is the most difficult question to endure !
I forgot to say thank you for the lovely message.
I just plod along and am more than content to linger in what i do. I love the repetition of “the same old thing”. It feels comfortable, predictable, safe, and - above all - correct. The only time things go wrong is when i cut back on what I do. Arhantship? Gosh… I think there is a better chance of me reaching the moon on a feather. And I am MORE than content with that. We should trust where we are going. If we force ourselves down fiery roads on our wooden feet, we will just go POOF! I think for laypeople, being angsty about your progress is just going to make things worse. Enjoy yourself. Love the reading, the lectures, the meditation, the long walks. Why rush toward attainments, especially if you know they are - at least for now - out of reach. Look at the laypeople in Buddhist countries. They are not all clamouring for awakenings as if there is only one bus to catch. They are strolling gently, enjoying the view, and confidently moving forward. Since you are on the right path anyway, you will have HUGE amounts of time to progress. Enjoy the progress.
We do NOT have huge amounts of time. What would you say nibbana is?
@@jaredwolfe4042 You have billions of years to perfect the Path. You’ve had countless aeons already, which is why you and I find ourselves in our current privileged position. This “escape the wicked, wicked world” mindset is a western one. There are some people who are born with severe mental and brain disadvantages. Do you imagine that only they are doomed to rebirth, while we must rush toward awakening because of our privilege? We are just as they. It’s just that in our “normal” bodies we might have the opportunity to shift the checker one space further along the board. All progress you make along the path is progress. To use rebirth as a threat instead of seeing it as an opportunity to improve is a very western view - like using hellfire to promote heaven. Saṃsāra is not an abnormality or wickedness waiting to be crushed. It is a perfectly normal part of what it means to be. Seeing it as the ONLY part is the abnormality.
If you think you cannot succeed, you won't. Don't neglect Right Effort!
@@dansullivan2828 certainly good advice, my point was that there is no time to waste
@@dansullivan2828 I think you misapprehend my original message. I am certainly not saying what you imply, at all.
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks 👌
Wonderful. Truly, a simple, precise and exacting summary of the Path. Thank-you deeply.
Let me say, however it may seem to be differentiated by many, that to “serve and dwell in God” is the identical instruction by a different name on the pathway of Devotion. Likewise, to “establish in virtue and then establish in mindfulness” as you say here, as taught by the Buddha, is the path of Truth.
Each, in the first steps, if informed by compassion, leads to right conduct, and each, in the second step, leads to the falling away of fabrications; even as clinging to the practice of mindfulness itself falls away, and becomes a natural inclination of mind, so too does the clinging to God fall away, and become the natural dwelling free of all grasping, leaving a state of Peace.
There's a book written on this - "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" by Chogyam Trungpa. Personally, I have stuck with one mantra, day in day out for over 11 years. After about 3 months, back in 2013, I wondered whether I'd kind of 'done' that mantra. Fortunately I continued and found there is no end to its benefits.
I am strictly Theravada. I've never been able to understand how anyone can mix and follow different lineages at the same time. I will further state that I am an atheist, and as such, I don't think the Buddha would mind.
what mantra r u referring to?
@@pug7053 The mantra of Green Tara - Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha
7:16 the question is: where to find these people? I have yet to find a buddhist community in the west that would not be involved with some woke political activism. It's not a matter of political disagreement, or clinging to my own views, it's just that I would imagine that "seeing things as they really are" would make you aware of the complexity of political issues. Instead, it's always a typical college campus attitude: "progressives=good, conservatives=bad", even with very old practitioners. I would think that it's due to that overfocusing on the meditation methods, which leads to no real insight. But it's really sad nonetheless. It seems that to "wander alone, like a rhinoceros" is the only way to go today.
If you go by Suttas, the Buddha embraced quite a number of conservatives values like family, restraint, fewness of desires, moderation, and most of all personal responsibility. All of those are classical religious values I would say. That said, they are not _about politics_ at all! I would avoid places where politics takes center stage at all costs in Buddhist communities if liberation is your goal. The Dhamma will always be the loser in such situations. That said, there are a few online places where you can practice well. political activism has been condemned as wrong Speech by the Buddha numerous times (talk about ministers of state, talk about kings and queens, of wars etc...).