Bud Jetsun

The monkeys choose a lifestyle that let's a forest recycle energy to atom perfect levels working with the life support system to sustain on our beautiful shared spaceship. The monkeys don't poison the air and water and soil of the area their own children grow up, but they do occasionally eat each others children or children from other monkey groups for reasons not important to understand. Basics for yourself alone is a 24-7 occupation. Nature needs nothing to help it find balance aside from humans to balance themselves. Enjoying a $4usd a night worker hostle in Ganzhou China, the workers generously share their rice breakfast. The rice is cooked with the appreciation of beings who appreciate they are having another meal right now, and rice never tasted and smelled so good. Some folks had injuries and coughs, no complaints uttered, and only gratitude and generosity expressed. They manifested the universe reflecting their generosity with a generous multiplication. $1,000usd a night hotels have buffet lines available around the clock filled with premium exotic foods from around the world, and people focused on nit-picking quality or requesting they add what they choose to imagine its missing. Monks and information age freestyle spiritual seekers alike drown in oceans of priceless wisdom. CTs maintaing Enlightenment thread has many hundreds of expressions in which any one of them lived would be enough of a ramp to jump and make it. So does every line of the Dao Jing or Upanishads and dozens of other works on the nature of reality from wisdom of beings appreciating the natural state, and choosing to create a fleeting and inherently relative and abstract pattern of symbols. A non-committal practice means one is free get up and go do something else whenever they choose. Appreciation of the real occurs only when chosen to commit to appreciating it irregardless of the choice in quantity of 'time' spent prior. Folks are free to believe they can copy the existence of whomever being may have chosen to appreciate Now, but the success rate speaks for itself, as if each Buddha mind teaching effort produced just 2 Buddhas per lifetime average, our human population would already be already be the limit approaching only Buddha mind appreciators. This does not mean a Buddha mind appreciator doesn't occasionally have a student or disciple occasionally also choose to appreciate the whole of the real in Now, but it still occurs not until the moment the student chooses to appreciate the whole of the real. Every new perspective offers an added vantage point to explore the tools offered in the 10,000 things. Retaining of bias of which of the 10,000 things arising experiences fit or don't fit inside some rulebook of dogma is leaving opportunities for wisdom and perspective gain on the table. While animated Now, naturally use it, this is the whole of the Way. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Hard enough to scratch diamond while flowing like water in the river of phenomena only limited by one's own creativity and mindfulness. Everything experienced and/or imagined alike is an aspect of this one beautiful moment offered in compassion. Forgive all beings, self first and completely before moving onward as forgiveness only functions when genuine. Forgive all possible arisen, arising, and yet to arise possibilities. Conclude creating 'success/failure' criteria in experienential phenomenon of events through mindfully unbreakable appreciation. These few and basic steps do not need to be done for tomorrow today. They only offer usefulness if maintained in the real. The whole of the real exists in the domain of this infinitesimal moment of Now. The singular mechanism of useful commitment is Now. The discussion deciding in advance to spend years/decades/lifetimes towards a state which can only exist in Now ensures the real will be missed by carefully scanning/watching/thinking for some future arising phenomenon. Just wholehearted forgiving drops burdens. Just aligning thoughts, mind, and speech with outer action concludes conflict. Just wholehearted appreciation is self-love and the conclusion of the choice to suffer phenomenon. Reading about it, chanting about it, sitting thinking about is not living it. When living these simple basics with the unbreakable resolve, a being is in sight of the ramp to the jump into having the word "enlightenment" shed its thick wrapper of dogma/desire/fear and instead become an appreacted experiential aspect of Now. Tomorrow never comes just as future enlightenment never comes, they are both aspects of non-real delusions of what may be or yet-to-be. Kind or cruel alike, suck all of the wisdom available from every experience, and if the lesson from a given experience has already been shared, evolve forward at that moment never look back. Choose to manifest the experiences that enrich and evolve always ratcheting towards getting the basics. Routine is how to reinforce one's static condition, through sacrifice of one's most precious resource (this moment) towards experiencing what has already been experienced. Meditate only when willing to commit to it offering meaningful evolution. All the '10,000 things' and the functions of one's body and nature are here in great compassion to offer some range of experiences/lessons in this moment. Suck the wisdom from all of them with the same commitment, precision, and speed which a mongoose hunts the cobra. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Reading this through, on multiple occasions spontaneously increased my beards formation of eye salt accumulated in deep gratitude. Unlimited Love, -Bud

What takes 'time', including up to all of the moment is the picking up and constructing and shaping of some models which are not reality. Laying down models with sincerity must happen through a mindfully unbreakable choice to appreciate the wonder of what may be as it is. Even when the whole of the models shape becomes a singular imfathomable indivisible energy, the model remains a replacement of experiencing the imfathomable energy. The imfathomable nature of reality remains unimpressed by the most sincere of human meditative efforts to comprehend it in the same way the device you're reading this on uses binary pulses of 0101011's to arrive at an understanding of the nature of it's own transistors transmitting the 0's and 1's to propagate this pattern of pixels. Atoms pondering atoms, cells pondering cells, gives rise to the illusion of us as separate beings pondering separate beings and whatever that days flavor in models about what may be. What may be remains undiminished in a timeless perfect balance which is not important for aspects of our minds to imagine understanding. In compassion, may all aspects of all of your models suddenly release from being the burden one once carried and shatter irreparably to be blown away in winds of Now. Commit like your landing ramp begins at 100ft away and explode off the lip using every bit of strength of body and force-of-will understanding they all splatter into a shambles from any lesser effort than full commitment. The jump is exactly in range of every beings jumping capability, but no margin to take any constructed burdens. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Expressable or conceptualized 'human understanding' is another label describing a confusion further separating awareness of the real. Compassion can not be acquired or stored in a notion or a box, as it's manifestion arises only in this one moments choice to exist and behave. The Zen masters stick strikes hard upon sensation rich locations in compassion for that beings liberation. The water passing through a hot dry mouth delivers its sensation in compassion for that beings liberation. Bones snap and nerves spasm with rich sensation in compassion for that beings liberation. The sunshines, the flowers bloom and the birds fly, thunder strikes and rain falls in compassion for that beings liberation. Heart flows its last pump and diaphragm makes it's final contraction in compassion for that beings liberation. The dao is compassion and compassion itself does not exist beyond the choice of how we use this one moment. No extra moment to waste. Each breath is so precious, if you had a room filled with all the worlds splendors and no breaths, one may discover a deeper appreciation for each respiration as a precious gift. No matter the nature or state of experiential phenomenona, only a single beings choices remain between unbounded appreciation of what may be. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Desire is a type of conditional, optional, and fleeting choice to trade appreciation of what is, for a self-arising fantasy of what may be or yet-to-be. This doesn't make it good or bad anymore than using one's eyes to look around is good or bad. Enlightenment doesn't impose any restrictions on choosing to experience states of being. If an enlightened being chooses to speak or write, he is making this choice consciously to generate inherently dualistic and relative expressions (words). A choice is all that's needed to create or uncreate desire for anything to the limits of one's creativity and mindfulness. Enlightenment does not include any shackles of limitations in which mindful choices that being is free or not free to choose to explore or experience. Through the same mechanism one may apply attention towards pondering if enlightenment is desirable, one remains equally enlightened and equally experiencing the whole of real, though whatever choices in pondering is serving as the narrow attention conduit with the functionality of replacing/blocking/covering conscious perception/awareness of the real. Each being shares a blazing, perfect, and indifferent essence which desires nothing and experiences everything. The moment a single arising of thought is given attention over appreciation of the real, the 'non-enlightened' state illusion dependently arises a fleeting fantasy of whatever experiencing this one moment may be (good, bad, desired, undesired, etc). Dao remains all perfect, even the illusions of imperfections remain all perfect. Human thought paths leading to choosing labels, limitations, and preferences in appreciation of phenomena contains the whole of the illusion of separation from Dao. Unlimited Love, -Bud

An effectual teacher is priceless. The work you've shared here is an aspect of the grace in this one moment. What an honor and privilege to experience your company soon friend. Thank you universe for all the enriching content so many folks have kindly contributed, fellow taobums and all Buddhas with or without Buddha-mind awareness. The universe offers lessons in each big ocean wave and icy slope and body crumpling asphalt/dirt/tree/fist impact. Rising from prone to standing position includes intense sensory phonemona ritual featuring mindful commitment. Folks who live in a van with their motorcycle in the parking lot of a motocross track for a decade, living on PBJ sandwiches and handling their own trauma injury care may not recognize the word 'Zen', or even know how to read or write as the universe blasts them on their way. Relentlessly suck the wisdom from this one moment in genuine appreciation of the universe as a ritual separated by conception and death. In respect for the immensity of my self-ignorance, anything including a ritual which is always optionally presenting an opportunity for boundless discovery and appreciation from start to finish. Manifestion is powered by oxygen/CO2 gas exchange altering the energy states of the food in your guts and the choices to guide that energy. Where ones attention goes so does that energy transfered from food and the atmosphere into creating the fleeting experience in dependant arising of Self and whatever fantasys self wishes to persist in now to the limits of its creativity. Unlimited appreciation offers a trap one may optionally accept as comfortable persistence, while Awareness remains burning brilliantly with timeless indifference. Unlimited gratitude for yourself and all teachers and taobums and fellow shipmates in this beautiful unfolding of a moment a breath at a time. Unlimited Love, -Bud

In compassion for life, and respect for Buddhist practicality in over clarity: Following the path of another being will be a sincere role-playing effort at its most genuine. This one moment is a choose-ones-own-adventure novel limited only by one's mindful choice and creativity in appreciation of this movement composing the whole of the real. Embrace gratitude with every breath drinking in the shared hemoglobin and chlorophyll linked shared flowing juice of the earth. Embrace with gratitude every swallow of food or drink with awareness it contains all the parts needed to heal. The body makes a type of cells capable of replacing all types of its cells. Scars grow back thousands of times because the body chooses to maintain that structure, but it's not an alteration to the DNA it retains blueprints for cells to grow themselves to the original design specifications. Be grateful for sensation rich healing with every breath being an exchange of energy equally capable of delivering energy to cancers or repairing and restoring itself. Choose ones own ethics in real time this moment and live them dynamically in an evolution with unbounded creativity and vision. In efforts of Buddhist practically: Living in recognition of one's expressable mind being a fleeting aspect of a whole as an unbounded continously evolving active process. To which dogma or ritual does a Buddha attach, and what is attached beyond delusions of atoms pondering atoms in the yet-to-dust state. Rest in the grateful support under your feet in the beautiful assembly of earth orbiting a speck of energy in a vast scene of beauty in balance of what some unnecessarily label "destruction" and "creation". Routine functions as a socially acceptable route into a coffin, yet remains optional. Unlimited Love, -Bud

The empty offers no obstacles to manifestation, or limits of appreciation, or barriers between what is empty and not empty. What we may know to be and not to be are equally empty without division. The emptyness is only limited by our own preference of confusion, it remains unbounded limitless potential even while optionally possible to carefully ensure it manifests only the mundane. Void and Abyss and Emptyness are a few types of words, equally not the describing the imfathomable splendor woven into this fabric of reality. It's a great blessing given in compassion for all beings the emptyness mercifully does not manifest rapidly from the fleeting thoughts of unpointed minds. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Cow drinks from a stream and makes milk. Snake drinks from the same stream and makes venom. The stream and the fire are perfectly doing what they do, so is snake and the snake bite receiver. A man is free to burn to ashes without fear enjoying the last of that bodies enriching sensations as a celebration of liberation, or as a sacrifice in compassion for life to raise awareness of a cause. *edited due to unneeded cruel over-precision* Far better more enriching to die awakened and fearless in flames than living afraid in the most comfortable situation. Unlimited Love, -Bud Flame drives change with potency. The caterpillar makes a cocoon and dissolves its own body in digestive acids into an acrid paste, from which a butterfly emerges. A birth is the other side of death, and some opportunity for enriching life experiences may come between. The fire is some energy exchange processes between the atmosphere and the fuel, use the same care one extends fire with all ones uses of energy.

Looking up at the stars, human eyes detect some of the brighter and closer stars to Earth (our shared spaceship) in our relatively tiny 'milky way' galaxy. Expanding perspective further shows a sea of galaxies forming a galaxy cluster, and the relative spacing between each level expands again to reveal super galaxy clusters of galaxy clusters. Each level expansion increases the ratio of empty to the illusion of "occupied". When the "occupied" is examined more closely, just like our own sun and earth relationship of emptiness, so too is the spaces between the illusion of "solid atoms." Between vast gaps of emptyness in both structure of "stuff" made of atoms, and the parts inside the atom composing it. When we again examine closer at the parts composing the sub atomic particles, we again find the same galaxy and solar system scale ratios of emptyness to up/down quarks and leptons. Instrumentation is around its limits at exploring the nature of leptons, but it appears they also break into smaller parts which also have vast scales of emptyness between them. The nature of reality is emptiness, quite literally to the limit of our incredibly limited and inherently relative human sensory perception leveraging the best instrumentation constructed by humans to date. Zooming out perspective to oceans of galaxy clusters the universe approaches emptiness to the limit of our ability to know what emptyness may be, going further micro scale into the nature of the atom and whatever "matter" may be, it approaches the limit of emptyness to the limitations of our ability to construct instrumentation to observe. Emptyness is not a metaphor or dogma, it's correctly describing the nature of reality. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Forgive completely yourself, the pain, the situation and all arising phenomena. Plant only diet, as building your body from the energy of suffering is only helpful if ones objective is to become suffering, add fruits until your frugivorous digestive system functions. Appreciation of what is, however it happens to be is how one shows kindness to themselves. It is a choice to love cold and pain equally as a choice to enjoy laugher and warmth. Every being suffers it's choice in preference. Creativity to interpret sensory phenomena is the singular limitation on a beings capacity to suffer or enjoy this one moment. Changing the environment you sleep will not help if you take the same pointlessly struggling self with you to bed. Once you've forgiven all people and all things including insomnia, you will rest well, as you have laid down your burdens. Forgiveness is a priceless treasure available right now to every being that spoils oneself more than if you were living in a royal palace with a burdensome laiden heart. Unlimited Love, -Bud

All one reads of water will not quench ones thirst. Portions of your body serve no function other than to stand by to detect incredibly tiny amounts of various tryptamines. Any plant can only offer some experience. What the experiencer does from there is as meaningful and beautiful or as pointless as they make it. The same is true of all religion practices plants or otherwise. Yoga can be no more than a gentle stretching session, Buddhism no more than some mindless chants and sitting, philosophy no more than reading and remembering some words. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Buddha did not 'become' enlightened. Nor could he or any other being. Buddha and all beings natural state is enlightenment. Buddha achieved awareness and appreciation of his natural enlightened state. Awareness of Oneness is intimately linked to awareness of enlightenment. Various faces of the same indescribable coin. Unlimited Love, -Bud

The definitive marker of dualistic thought is the absence of Oneness. This is because "two-ness" of a concept of "separate from this" can inherently not exist in the non-dual. When one has an illusion of non-Oneness, this is an aspect of Oneness perceived by human perception limitations to appear as something separate that is not. The "10,000 things" arise from the Oneness of the nature of reality. Buddha correctly (to the limits of current physics apparatus capacity to measure at least) declared the nature of ultimate reality is emptiness. From this One emptiness, the phenomenal illusionary realm of infinitely entangled cycling energy manifestation arises. Even through only a logical view, one can inherently only "know" of the world what One "knows" of the world, creating a situation where it's inherently Oneness to the limits of a humans ability to "know" the summation of all aspects they label "reality". However, none of this inherently relative to each minds interpretation arrangement of letters can be more than the reflection of the moon at best and does not encompass the nature of the moon. When humans choose to squabble over various choices in always wrong relative nomenclature choices, the meaning of whatever words has already lost value and is destructive and parasitic to ones journey towards the real and constructive towards creating delusionary models to cling upon and replace that which is of the Real. Unlimited Love, -Bud

It requires choosing to experience the death of all one had thought/believed. No two paths are alike or they would be the same consciousness. I have only my own limited fleeting experience and crude typed symbols to attempt to express it in a relatable way. Through a lifelong interest in exploring what is the nature of reality, I experimented with some very non-recreational doses of entheogens and realized I was a spiritual being having a human experience. This radically shifted my approach towards mindfulnes from being impossibly difficult to never having been more than a normally mercilessly persistent illusion. Culture mindfulness however shows results. Use mindfulness to consciously choose compassionate thoughts and actively living compassionate actions. Life will become so pleasant to enjoy the wanting for energy to be somewhere or not somewhere will cease and this moment will become what you had been seeking. Unlimited Love, -Bud

The ego has precisely as many tricks as you know of at its disposal to reinforce the illusion there is only ego. Defeating it's tricks can't be done with more tricks, because it already knows the trick if you are able to try it. For most, they will not find a moment outside egos illusionary/delusionary realm until merciful death when the body/mind illusion collapses. To collapse the illusion while still alive takes some incredible effort and bravery, more so than Orions fair description. What remains is not nothing or no one, but a timeless everywhere, everything, everyone. A completeness of unfiltered raw experience unfathomably beautiful and unmistakable as one's foundational timeless being. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Then who or what does your thinking for you? Is is possible for anyone but oneself to think ones thoughts?

If thought and action are chosen from appreciation and compassion, energy will reflect this. If thought and actions are chosen from fear and discontent, energy will reflect this as well. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Your egos trained/indoctrinated from birth choice process to interpret this one fleeting gift of life as pain rather than a gift of a beautiful range of sensory phenomena has been and will remain the singular source and giver of all your pain, and the defender of none of it. Your true Self has no need of defense or offense, it enjoys unbreakable contentment. It is the egos illusion game to pretend to offer defense, and to convincingly and continuously pretend it's existence and survival is all that IS. It's a fool's game to go defining the indefinable like enlightenment. It is possible for a being to choose to conclude delusion and preference and conditionality for being appreciatively present in this one infinitesimal moment of reality. This doesn't occur from adding new delusions to the pile of pointless monkey-mind mental constructs, but through finding an appreciation for this already divinely perfect Now. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Ego is the summation product of every thought of every perception. It is inherently a self-created delusion. If you see past the ego illusion, external phenomena can manifest in whatever range of ways with no impact on your state of being. This is the conclusion of karma. It unrelated to what life experiences may or may not occur. The conclusion of karma is a choice for unconditional appreciation of what IS, what once may have been or may yet to be. Recognize all your minds thoughts, all the things you choose to cling to, the things for which you trade your peace for to choose to suffer fearing them, these will all crumble back to the star dust from which they arose. There has never been a reason worth trading ones peace inside. Forgive all beings and all things completely and unconditionally for whatever may have been or may yet to be. Mindfully replace all things feared with a choice to Love them exactly as they are and nothing in the realm of Karma or the universe can do more than offer some fleeting opportunities for sensations you genuinely and unconditionally embrace with Love. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Nothing un-human-construct-delusion is lost or gained. My wife crashed her Mt bike in front of me today riding up a Croatian castles ruins this afternoon. I saw her smiling as she tumbled down some rocks with only a bicycle helmet on for protection. Smiling and laughing getting up, and still choosing to enjoy the sensations the scrapes and bruises offered her. Life offers some range of sensory phenomenas. The greater the breadth of phenomena scale experienced, the greater the capacity to relate You are the singular person capable of hurting yourself through choosing to interpret some nerve receptor signals fearfully rather than with gratitude for this one moments beautiful range of phenomena experiences. If you can still draw a breath, this is enough reason to be grateful for the state of your sensory phenomena experience. If you cannot draw a breath, this is an equally important time to be appreciative for the always precious seconds left of a life beautiful life experience. Appreciation of this moment is a choice available to every being to the limit of that beings compassion to self. Appreciation of this moment is how we choose to show kindness to ourselves. There is nothing conditional or phenomenon restricted to appreciate. Your body, everyone you've ever known or will know, or has ever been touched, tasted, smelled, seen, or heard will cycle through supermassive black holes being sprayed out as cosmic radiation to decay into much of what we call "nouns" in English. Through your whole life, there was never once something worth giving your peace inside. Unlimited Love, -Bud

It's good to see the rejection in some here. A rejection sufficient to warrant posts back means the seeds of truth of the nature of reality of mind were effectively planted in fertile soil. Liberation from suffering is possible for every being at this very moment. Liberation does not arise from a lack of worldly inputs to suffer. Liberation can only arise from choosing in compassion to appreciate in genuine gratitude any and all manner of phenomena. If this choice has the outward appearance of being impossibly difficult to make, recognize it only needs to be made for this one infinitesimal fleeting moment. No one else can ever enjoy a moment of your life experience for you. Equally, no one can ever impose non-enjoyment without your direct consent. The only difference between pain and pleasure is the choice in interpretation of some sensory phenomena. Accepting mindful responsibility for ones own state of being is instantly it's own best reward. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Every being is free to suffer anything to the limit if their ability to choose suffering. Even reading my words is an equally available choice to suffer the remainder of your one moment. Irregardless of what you may have recollection of experiencing or imaginations of what may yet to be experienced, the nature of reality remains in this one moment of Now alone. It is only for this infinitesimal moment you choose to appreciate with gratitude and mindfully not deviate from this simple choice to unbreakably liberate oneself from self imposed suffering. If you wish to instead continue to suffer for whatever reason, this choice also always equally remains available through choosing to greet and interpret this one moments sensory phenomena woth fear and ungratefulness. Some were instructed to fear and self-torment everything they encounter and this is instantly it's own worst punishment. I assure you it's a far easier choice to greet every sensation with Love and appreciation and this instantly becomes it's own best reward. This option is equally available for you to choose as a gift to yourself, no matter the nature of memories of previous events or imagined outcomes of future events one has experienced. Every day you are free to make up a new reason to suffer this moment. Every day you are equally free to appreciate your one fleeting moment. Forgive yourself Liminal my friend. Forgive all others for what may have been or could be. This servers the ties to the burdens between you and inner peace. Love yourself completely, Love the universe completely. Now with inner peace and a unburdened heart a being is ready to begin a spiritual practice. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Congratulations! Start from the beginning of this thread again and re-read if you are seeking additional wisdom. The mind you have now was not the mind you had when you read it through the first time. It already contains enough wisdom for a hundred lifetimes of appreciation on each page. Unlimited Love, -Bud