Bud Jetsun

Did Gautama join a club with a rigid set of rules and spend decades in scheduled practice sessions until awareness of enlightenment occurred? Did Gautama's own life example or lessons advise that clinging hard enough to some set of rigid constructs or lifestyle reveals the nature of reality? Would a sincere bodhisattva commitment or effort involve even a single day spent at a temple rather than helping the hungry and sick? Many have appreciated the moon, and some beautifully (and inherently incompletely) described some of the moons aspects. The beauty of the moon is missed by clinging to someone else's descriptions of its beauty. Discovering appreciation of the real must be both sincere and genuine or its a charade and becomes motions in a ritual. Ritual may consume as much or as little of one's moment as they give it. Appreciation of the real in Now may also consume as much or as little of one's moment as they give it. Unlimited Love, -Bud

A stilled river mixes and grows to become indistinguishable from ocean. :-) In compassion for all beings liberation, it is equally dualistic to cling to no forgiveness principle as it is to cling to forgiveness principle being required, as both as knowing either is ego-constructed delusion alone while awareness burns on with indifference. Embracing the whole of the real without delusion is an adequately formidable task, it requires no pre-conceived limiting notions of what may or may not be helpful towards it's attainment and persistence. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Complete agreement, and perhaps this highlights the mis-communication or confusion. The forgiveness is not for anyone else and doesn't serve anyone else any function at all unless they also choose to forgive themselves. The forgiveness is a gift only to oneself alone, so rather than standing watching the river of emotion, or trying to dam up the river of emotion, one may head up-stream to it's source and turn off the faucets creating it one by one until the water becomes a calm and lucid splendor rather than something to fear or avoid. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Meditation can serve as successful distraction from whatever may be causing the river to flow, or the source of the river can be explored and made calm through genuine appreciation for every drop. If Buddhist temples were flooding the world with an abundant supply of enlightened beings, clinging to that method would seem sensible. In visiting many dozens of temples and finding only rusty borrowed wisdom from past beings shared by those fearing exploratory discussion of the nature of reality, it becomes clear why the Buddha told them not to write his words and not to make a fixed doctrine as this would lead to loss of awareness of the real and deviation from living the Dao which can not be rigid or defined. Unlimited Love, -Bud

From body language analysis, he spoke form non-experiential borrowed wisdom and a borrowed river metaphor until ~3min 5seconds into the video. His advise about sometimes it being too intense and having to just dodge it and think about other sensation or breath exhibited body language of being genuine and experiential. The beauty of forgiveness is no need to waste potentially useful meditation time dodging facing it through focus on breath or something else. This lets a being rest in whole awareness because there are no lurking aspects which one has not already confronted and examined/illuminated to dispel the fear and sever the bonds and develop sincere gratitude for all life experience. Unlimited Love, -Bud

It's a big step to claim what is or isn't helpful, or what should or shouldn't be merged when from a results oriented perspective a process has demonstrated centuries of failure, or success ratio's so narrow they are difficult to quantify as 1:10,000 1:100,000 1:1,000,000. How many Buddhas have you personally seen created by clinging to your clubs methods? In compassion for all beings liberation, a Buddha would not cling to any rigid dogma, nor fear mixing any processes that lead to successful liberation, no matter where the concept/process may have originated if it works. The nature of transient is Now, all that one clings to is ultimately only there own pointless choice to suffer what also will remain transient. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Can you list the successful Buddhas created by that method? 1 per 10,000? 100,000? 1 per 1,000,000? No disagreement if all experience is greeted with appreciation no bonds form to require the severing of forgiveness, and this would be the most compassionate to self method to maintain in real-time. Prior to recognizing that state is a choice, indoctrination induced ego construct delusion is free to generate bonds however strong it manifests them through feeding it attention over whatever circumstance may or may not have occurred, is occurring or may yet occur. I respect from an ultimate perspective the only aspects which have not forgiven are self-constructed delusion, and do not disagree it's always possible to mindfully choose to stop sustaining any/all ego delusion. I also respect that our true Self is not diminished, nor is our true awareness more or less accessible having forgiven or not. For these reasons it's true there is no intrinsic necessity to forgive to appreciate Now whole-heartedly. Perhaps due to insufficient awareness of mindfulness, the little selfs stream of thoughts persisted the illusion they were self-generating, as a mechanism to maintain subconscious distraction from the bonds of whatever events/occurrences I was choosing to trade my peace through staying bonded to. After committing to destroy all unforgiven ties using every technique and/or plant assistance, all previous, current, and past possible occurrences were forgiven as they all offer enriching life experience, and this is the reason awareness is animate in this flesh for it's fleeting moment. Unlimited Love, -Bud

A Buddha has nothing to forgive, because they great all phenomena with appreciation for the experience of Now as it comes. This means they accumulated no bonds that needed to be severed through forgiveness. No matter the circumstantial status, one's true Self remains perfectly at rest in awareness, only the delusions of ego have the capacity to chose to optionally perceive experience as something negative, and then further optionally choose to trade the real of Now to cling to it, or even define themselves by that negative interpretation. It's been not quite two decades now since my face and head and neck was beaten with brass knuckles into a disfigured mess of flesh and blood and fractured cranium bones and I was left for dead. I pointlessly carried resentment about it for a couple of years needlessly, which was +10,000x worse than the beating experience itself or the healing process. Today I recognize it was exactly the priceless gift the universe needed to give me at that time to make a course correction on the path I was traveling, and I'm tremendously grateful for it. Even one fewer hit wouldn't have been adequate to get the job done, I have only gratitude for their actions and hope they also experience whatever they need to find their own unbreakable peace of liberation. No matter what circumstances occur Now, forgiveness is both complete and real-time, as all phenomena is unconditionally greeted with appreciation alone. This is and has always been optionally available to all beings at all times. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Forgiving is done as a gift to yourself. Forgiving only works when it's sincere and complete. When it happens, it severs the self-imposed bonds one was clinging to to in-compassionately inflict self-torture needlessly. Forgiving is unrelated to condoning someone elses acts or behavior, it's done to lay down the burden of that behavior having any impact in Now. Forgiving the trespasser is one side of it, forgiving yourself for having chosen to cling to in-compassionate self-torture of carrying an unforgiven burden is the self-forgiveness side. If a being decides to conclude suffering, forgiveness of all things that may have been or may be occurring or may yet to occur must happen in real-time of Now with absolutely sincerity. Some gifts are instantly there own best reward beyond comprehension. Unlimited Love, -Bud

What a blessing for the disobedient and non-Buddhists passing on their genetics so we are now able to enjoy our human experiences. The Gautama, Christ, Milarepa, Padmasambhava, lived the example of anarchist lives of self-governance, clinging to no fixed rule, clinging to no fixed doctorine, clinging to no fixed dharmas, but instead living in harmony with the Dao which can never be rigid or defined. The Diamond sutra was given to monks as the meticulously and tediously clarified guidance not to become mindless bots obeying rigid programming, but to instead become self-aware embracing the continuously transient Now. It was a blessing and fantastic gift to Ananda to save him from wasting his one moment in dealing with a club so broken and confused they couldn't see past a beings genitalia to recognize the presence of the same perfect Buddha nature inside every being. If they had seen there own Buddha nature even for a glimpse, the physical differences would hold no significance, and never again would they cling to some constructed rule-book rather than living the Dao. Unlimited Love, -Bud

These traits are manifestations of ego delusion alone. Awareness burns on with timeless and brilliant indifference and equanimity. There has never been an event worth trading ones peace inside, nor has it ever been a requirement to stop loving what Is and instead uncompassionately choose to suffer fearing what may have been or may yet be. Unlimited Love, -Bud

A species or culture which imposes a no sex rule and obeys it is rewarded with extinction in a single generation.

Perhaps Sumerian philosophy persisted to become the foundational source of Vedic philosophy, which decayed over a millennia of becoming intricately ritualized. The emergence and development of new Vedic Upanishads started started fresh with accurate basics to help beings discover the nature of reality through acetic simplicity and self-discovery. Gautama and a few pals adventured to various scholars and sages for some period of years of being hungry and dirty sleeping sleeping outside during this period. Like countless beings before him, one day Gautama chose to mindfully commit to drop all delusion, confusion, misperception, belief, and understanding, and instead appreciated the real of Now. When he told his ascetic pals it turns out life is as beautiful as one chooses to make it, and to go find food and prepare a meal for their malnourished bodies, they abandon him in disgust for his loss of dedication to worshiping being hungry and filthy. Gautama's wisdom was complete, so various folks who possessed the eyes and ears to hear wisdom recognized he was an unbounded source and some traveled with him on adventures. The Gautama was very clear not to let disciples write his words, not to make a book, and not to make a name for living in compassion appreciating reality, as it would eventually mean either killing in the name of it or being killed in the name of it, and worshiping the constructed phrases and rituals would replace awareness of one's inherent living Buddha-mind. Gautama died, and afterwards it became trendy for clubs to label themselves in the name of the Buddha while and drifting further from his example, with various confused beings clinging to and worshiping his image, name, and words as idolatry, eventually some making massive size gold plated idols and increasingly elaborate rituals and repetitive chanting. Buddha's wisdom was perfect and complete, then generations of role-playing attempts progressed into various clubs and communes squabbling over which flavors of life-consuming practices were the best alternatives to replace appreciating Now. These groups divided and re-labeled as they saw fit, and still today combining or forking remains common. Some of Gautama's expressions of wisdom become re-discovered throughout history by those who seek out it's beautiful clear diamonds of wisdom to cut through their unnecessary and volentary self-bonding with resolve and commitment to appreciate Now. This cycle of intra-sect forking over clinging to confusions trends in common with many flavors of things ending in 'ism. Though many, if not all 'ism's if carried out with complete resolve may offer the same re-linking to the real, Gautama sermonized with uncommonly direct and clear language expressions in compassion for all beings liberation, where alternatives often hid profound wisdom in code or obfuscate meaning with poetry or metaphor. When beings choose to live in compassion towards themselves and others, and enjoy the unbounded Now without fear, Gautama's lifestyle example continues in genuine form. Requiring no books, no dogma, no traditions, no clubs, no labels, no elaborate buildings, no gold or painted idols, and no pre-contrived and scheduled activities to sacrifice club members life-force upon year after year. Awareness of this One fleeting moment remains with beautiful and unbreakable indifference, when it's appreciated this is honoring oneself as well as living the continuation of the Buddha's action towards all beings liberation. Unlimited Love, -Bud

In compassion for all beings liberation: Only a single beings choice enables appreciation of what may be. No pattern of pixels, ink, or noise can substitute as the choice, and no one else can make it for you. The shadows of belief, thought, and understanding vanish in a flicker of the light of reality which has always been burning. Unlimited Love, -Bud

No energy has ever been tied up, it all perfectly behaves as energy behaves. No amount of puppies results in recognition or appreciation of inherent mindfulness. The karma of taking resources and life from the closed loop system to support captive animals for distraction/entertainment will not lighten burdens in yourself, only increases speed in the race to extinction of all life. Awakening is recognizing one's whole life has never had another being think or act for oneself from conception to one's last breath. Whatever aspects of consciousness you recognize inside yourself is only a new label for the same ego delusions if it's capable of suffering. Accept awareness of inherent mindfulness, and recognize no other being can experience or appreciate your reality for you. Through mindfully choosing to live compassionate choices in thoughts and actions towards oneself, choosing to suffer becomes unnecessary throughout all possible arising events and conditions. Enlightenment is not a giving up of good or bad, it's an unbreakable and genuine appreciation of the real exactly as it may be, irregardless of conditional or situational states. Your true Self has always and will always experience this. Confused fantasies of little self alone remains the source and persisting mechanism choosing to suffer what simply Is. With each breath in, it's always been optionally available to appreciate the precious life supporting gift enabling one's fleeting moment to continue. With each breath out its always been optionally available to appreciate the precious gift of gas exchange enabling one's fleeting moment to continue. Each being remains precisely as liberated and self-empowered as they choose in this one fleeting moment between conception and death. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Omnipresence Omnipotence means God in all places giving rise to all beings and all things through all times. Light shines down the forests and sewers alike and the light is no less magnificent. Flavors of religion are each like someones finger pointing to the same beautiful moon. The trick is not to master some set of constructs or rituals for labeling the moon, but to appreciate the real of this one fleeting moment between birth and death which the indivisible Oneness creates in a dependently arising manifestation. Breaking appreciation of the indivisible whole into parts with labels is the same point which all religions equally fall into expressions of mans confusion rather than appreciation of God/creation/universe. All religion's successfully completed end in the same appreciation of the real which is inherently of God and exists only in this moment. Christ was not a Christian and Buddha not a Buddhist, but liberated beings sharing in compassion ways other beings may also join them. The immortal spirit inside each being is not impressed by mindless words and rituals or categorizing words and rituals, but indifferently awaits to be discovered inside you like a precious gem beyond all earthly value. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Not omnipotent if divisible.

Does your religion involve a single omnipotent God who is all things in all places at all times? Does it mention the kingdom of God is inside you, recognizing you are also inherently an aspect of the same omnipotent presence? The rest is filler. Unlimited Love, -Bud

All re-ligions function is to re-link to awareness of the nature of reality. Picking labels or clinging to dogmas only further separates a being from the real. The objective of Catholicism is the same as Taoist objective, and the same as Buddhist objective. The only aspects where they seem different is the human manufactured confusion induced unnecessary constructs which exist as obstacles to away from the ability to re-link a being to the nature of reality. While in these bodies, we lack even the capacity to know dreaming state from waking state, let alone have the ability to comprehend the Oneness that is sometimes labeled God or God(s). All a beings choice in beliefs is equally there own choice in manufactured confusion. When belief (delusion) is traded for appreciating the whole of the real in now (God/Oneness), this indicates the fruit of success for Christian mystics, Catholic mystics, Sufi mystics, Hindi mystics, Buddhist and Taoist mystics alike. You are in good company with like-minded compassionate folks who aided my own development to the limits of my choice in mindfulness and appreciation of the universal wisdom shared freely here. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Drugs are just some of the 10,000 things, and none of them by themselves do anyone benefit. Used towards the purpose of benefiting one's perspective on the nature of reality, they all off something to learn just as every hike or bike ride or meditation offers the potential to reveal new perspective on the nature of reality if applied with mindful intent towards doing so. The first 3 decades of my life involved always declining every opportunity for a drug experience, as a misconception that something was more real or correct about the sober-perspective construct I was choosing to believe. During this whole period, I was a non-spirtually aware, non-self-aware, discontented and serially womanizing and racing obsessed atheist scientist. The little self-ego was the whole of my awareness of reality. After being drugged by a friend with a heavy mushroom dose, I gained awareness what pilots my body is an indescribable spiritual being connected the whole indivisible Oneness, and never chose to stop recognizing and appreciating it as the nature of reality. In the days after of meditation and introspective integration, the desire to share the discoveries about the nature of reality inspired attempting to write it all in a way to share it out of compassion for all beings needless choices to suffer. It was after writing it and sharing it with the friend who drugged me that I was first pointed to look at Buddhism, discovered that other folks had already kindly written incredibly beautiful and often flawless poetry about the nature of reality. After that experience, exploration of all common and many uncommon entheogens occurred at the rate it was possible to integrate the powerful lessons from the previous experience, which started as week long intervals and quickly became multi-month long intervals and now it's years between. Racing motorcycles where split second timing is the difference between life and death feels relaxed and comfortable compared to a 'spiritual-level' dose of an entheogen. Low-level doses offer nothing, if a person can still say or think the thoughts with words, or walk around, or know if their eyes are open or closed, they are just experiencing a recreational level dose. If a being can only be silent and voluntarily remains silent in inexpressible awe and peace for days after, it's a sign the dose was right. The summation of all life's experiences combined seems insignificant compared to a single timeless moment of Oneness without concepts or constructs (including the little self's pointless chatter ceasing). It never required drugs to appreciate it, but what an incredible gift from the universe to make dedicated receptors for certain chemicals to offer perspectives. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Beautiful, thank you. Similar appearing to biological functions.

One may discover that the summation of their understanding is merely self-delusion. When 'understanding' little 's' self it's pretending some imaginary friend has something to figure out beyond that it's a figment of self-constructed fantasy. As we lack the ability to even know dreaming from waking, the real attributes of big S Self can only be appreciated in Now experientially. The aspects one constructs of understanding the big S Self are just added construct delusions and labels further separating a being from awareness Self by replacing into some labeled bin categories which are not Self. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Agreed. I found coordinators of regular rituals and reading or speaking aloud and sitting who wear a special robe and sit or stand facing the rest of the group. I am grateful for the wisdom they shared and may all the instructors and students alike realize their inherent Buddha-nature in this One moment. I have no new-age-type idealism or wisdom, nor do I have ancient idealism or wisdom as either would be borrowed from someone else's realizations and in-genuine to pretend to be my own. I have only my own experiential wisdom and my own experimentally derived ideals, and recognize why I know nothing and why clinging to anything including traditions is only a distraction from appreciating Now. My wisdom came from making many bad and good choices alike, many impacts with dirt and asphalt and trees and waves, and each new perspective offered from plant and chemical induced altered states of perception. All of this collected experiential wisdom sums to nothing and no single aspect of it was required, yet all aspects combined to compose appreciation for the current state of this moment being something beautiful and wonder-filled beyond all attempts at human capacity to label or categorize into a dogma or tradition. Unlimited Love, -Bud

You are inherently free to believe as you wish friend, and the same moon will shine on with brilliant indifference. No matter how well intentioned a tradition or lineage may be, the nature of reality remains equally available for all beings to appreciate if they choose. In traveling China and Japan and Europe and USA Buddhist and Zen temples, I found only masters increasingly afraid to discuss the nature of reality outside some memorized borrowed phrases from past beings who may have once understood it, but now it rings like a broken bell while stated from a being fearing stumbling through the next philosophical question in front of their students. If this is the fruit of the traditional cakes than it is with extreme gratitude I was not drawn to eat from it rather than embracing my own path towards embracing the real which never for a moment has been unavailable to any being. My teacher was and continues to be the whole of the universe in all it's incredible depth of experiential phenomena and beauty. I have enjoyed reading sutras and philosophy from many regions and eras, some which trigger spontaneous tears of joy in appreciating the beauty in their meaning. The tears are not because of the quality of the poetry itself or the shapes or patterns of letters, but relating to a shared appreciation of what IS, and remains indescribable to all labels of religion/lineage/sects equally as the same moon remains just as beautiful. Unlimited Love, -Bud

All the fingers point to the same moon, but none of the fingers are the moon. Religion simply means to re-link to the nature of reality (or Dao, or infinite more choices in label to describe what can not be labeled.) If/when the re-linking occurs, there is no confusion or meaningful differences left between whatever optional choices of flavor in dogmas or labels. Buddha was not a Buddhist, and told his disciples not to so much as write his words down. After his death, leaders who were not Buddha's told monks to practice reading, memorizing and chanting some words and sitting because they didn't know how to live Buddhahood to set the example or teach what it would be like. Lineage dies with the enlightened being as it only existed through their choice in thought/actions aligning with and appreciating the nature of reality. Unlimited Love, -Bud