I started listening to Gil in 2005. When I first got an ipod, I came across the podcast ZenCast which is usually was speaking on. I listened and the rest was history. Thank you Gil
Nothing whatsever is worth clinging to...impermanence as nature of experience (epistemology), a perception and not a characteristic of reality (metaphysics); a stepping stone for radical letting go of all sorts of attachment and craving after clear seeing, joy of this discovery and appearence of gladness. A sage sees and understands the entire process of how our mind and experience gets caught up in craving, sense of self, becoming of all sorts..then being free
I havent read the book yet, reallly interesting that J Krishnamurti was very close to the original Budha, though he demied even this. Thanks for the interview.
hello guys, i heard the buddha was a prince before becoming a buddha. who was their God before buddha? or what did the buddha beleif to, before becoming a buddha?
Very nice. Nothing to hold on. All practices and opinions are vain. The ultimate realization of meditators or seekers is the realization that meditations and searches are vain. There is nothing to accomplish. Nothing. Hard to do because we don’t believe it can be. Driven by our past, we are fixated in the idea that there is some experience, some “thing” to accomplish. I suspect that was Buddha’s original realization. After his death, a full ideological edifice was created around. A motto capture the original Buddhism: “Nothing to hold on.” So what to do then…? We might believe that this is a problem to solve but it isn’t. Things will happen and we will act compelled by the prior impulses. We are feathers floating freely in the air. The speakers in the tubes amazed me when that talk about meditation and other techniques to get read to let’s go. Ja ja ja …They wonder how to let go… how to…. Blah, blah… Even that question is irrelevant. There isn’t anyone letting go either. There is nothing, nothing that stand any ground. Nothing. Nobody to hold anything either.
Alagaddupama Sutta-MN 22: (The Simile of the Snake) - Bhante Gunaratana In this, “The Simile of the Snake Sutta,” the Buddha first criticizes a monk for holding a view contrary to the Buddha’s teaching. He then warns that the Dhamma should be learned and taught for the right reasons, not for winning in arguments and self-glory. The Buddha also points out that one should not cling even to the wholesome Dhamma let alone unwholesome dhamma. In a famous simile, the five aggregates are compared to grass, sticks, branches and leaves gathered for burning. The advice: abandon them!
"Self authenticated" or as Crowley would say, "Progress is my proof". This book points toward the true form of Buddhism that seems to be lost in its modern form.
Without the four noble truths there is no Buddhism. All other texts circle around it and are connected with it! See the Story of the Wanderer Subhadda (Subhaddaparibbājakavatthu)
Gil Fronsdal might misunderstand some points about the 4 noble truths that the buddha taught only 4-5 times of 40-5 years of his discoursing. Infact, the dhamma that every buddha enlightment and taught were only the same which is the 4 noble truths or the dependent origination and never beyond. The point is the author might not relize what had read is it or parts of it. The discoursing the 4 noble truths no need to be taught the same context like first sermon to buddha first 5 disciple.
Abhasita Sutta "Monks, these two slander the Tathágata. Which two? He who explains what was not said or spoken by the Tathágata as said or spoken by the Tathágata and he who explains what was said or spoken by the Tathágata as not said or spoken by the Tathágata. These are two who slander the Tathágata."
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I started listening to Gil in 2005. When I first got an ipod, I came across the podcast ZenCast which is usually was speaking on. I listened and the rest was history. Thank you Gil
This is a great interview ! I very much appreciate the questions and the responses. What a treat!
Clinging leads to suffering. Even clinging to the idea that clinging leads to suffering will lead to suffering.
Nothing whatsever is worth clinging to...impermanence as nature of experience (epistemology), a perception and not a characteristic of reality (metaphysics); a stepping stone for radical letting go of all sorts of attachment and craving after clear seeing, joy of this discovery and appearence of gladness. A sage sees and understands the entire process of how our mind and experience gets caught up in craving, sense of self, becoming of all sorts..then being free
Thank you to you both for this inspiring interview! May you both be well!
I havent read the book yet, reallly interesting that J Krishnamurti was very close to the original Budha, though he demied even this. Thanks for the interview.
hello guys, i heard the buddha was a prince before becoming a buddha. who was their God before buddha? or what did the buddha beleif to, before becoming a buddha?
Trumpism
Hinduism
Great, many thanks.
Very nice. Nothing to hold on. All practices and opinions are vain. The ultimate realization of meditators or seekers is the realization that meditations and searches are vain. There is nothing to accomplish. Nothing. Hard to do because we don’t believe it can be. Driven by our past, we are fixated in the idea that there is some experience, some “thing” to accomplish. I suspect that was Buddha’s original realization. After his death, a full ideological edifice was created around. A motto capture the original Buddhism: “Nothing to hold on.” So what to do then…? We might believe that this is a problem to solve but it isn’t. Things will happen and we will act compelled by the prior impulses. We are feathers floating freely in the air. The speakers in the tubes amazed me when that talk about meditation and other techniques to get read to let’s go. Ja ja ja …They wonder how to let go… how to…. Blah, blah… Even that question is irrelevant. There isn’t anyone letting go either. There is nothing, nothing that stand any ground. Nothing. Nobody to hold anything either.
Gil from the Simpson’s has really sorted out his anxiety.
Alagaddupama Sutta-MN 22: (The Simile of the Snake) - Bhante Gunaratana In this, “The Simile of the Snake Sutta,” the Buddha first criticizes a monk for holding a view contrary to the Buddha’s teaching.
He then warns that the Dhamma should be learned and taught for the right reasons, not for winning in arguments and self-glory. The Buddha also points out that one should not cling even to the wholesome Dhamma let alone unwholesome dhamma. In a famous simile, the five aggregates are compared to grass, sticks, branches and leaves gathered for burning. The advice: abandon them!
I said, "It is something. ... would love to share what it is... ... 2019, where are you? Do you still have a magic carpet?!!
"Self authenticated" or as Crowley would say, "Progress is my proof".
This book points toward the true form of Buddhism that seems to be lost in its modern form.
36:00 anicca sañña. Sañña is sensation, not perception. Perception was just a first translation by the early English translators.
Without the four noble truths there is no Buddhism. All other texts circle around it and are connected with it! See the Story of the Wanderer Subhadda (Subhaddaparibbājakavatthu)
Gil Fronsdal might misunderstand some points about the 4 noble truths that the buddha taught only 4-5 times of 40-5 years of his discoursing. Infact, the dhamma that every buddha enlightment and taught were only the same which is the 4 noble truths or the dependent origination and never beyond. The point is the author might not relize what had read is it or parts of it. The discoursing the 4 noble truths no need to be taught the same context like first sermon to buddha first 5 disciple.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU !
Not coherently stated, could not follow, sorry
Abhasita Sutta
"Monks, these two slander the Tathágata. Which two? He who explains what was not said or spoken by the Tathágata as said or spoken by the Tathágata and he who explains what was said or spoken by the Tathágata as not said or spoken by the Tathágata. These are two who slander the Tathágata."
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You a funny. 5555