Bud Jetsun

Another perfect example of choosing to imagine a problem and then manifest it from nothingness as a mechanism to for-fill ones own intent to purposely suffer. Let go of the clinging to a personal idea of how reality needs to be, and instead embrace the Now that is. Unlimited Love, -Bud

The only 'problem' is ones choice to imagine a problem. If ones quality of life is so blessed as to perceive this concern as an issue, I recommend shouting praises of thanks to the universe for being so kind to you. There is no dual cultivation beyond what individuals choose to do, together or not together. At 22yo, most of the waking/thinking hours of my life were spent chasing tail. It turns out there is no amount of girls to lay that results in anything beyond wasting your time and looking for the next one. Sex is an attempt to complete a whole through physically interlocking, but no matter how many times with how many girls of how many styles the whole is not completion-capable through external physical body related actions, no matter what one's reproduction drive hormones may be dangling as mind-bait. The moment another is involved in your path, simplicity is replaced with compromises of what would otherwise be simple available options (like just going into the woods or mountains indefinitely.) Rich man has rich man problems. Poor man has poor man problems. Celibate man has celibate man problems. Gigolo man has gigolo man problems. Social butterfly has social butterfly problems. Solitary monk has solitary monk problems. Somewhere, likely less than a mile away from you there are men currently in the company of girlfriends right now who chose to make themselves bothersome life annoyances and those men are choosing a state of wishing they had your situation of being a man free to do as he pleases with his day. Simultaneously there are others like yourself imagining the inverse of whatever is the missing link between themselves and happiness. Happiness remains a choice made in Now, it's free and requires nothing more than mindful awareness. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Choose to perceive the ocean of infinite Love around you inseparably brother. Let others do as they may, continue appreciation of this moment. Unlimited Love, -Bud

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Whatever one decides to consume, appreciate that what was once energy of another living being will now become part of ones own fleeting energy body. If the food-stuffs one consumes are cultured in suffering and fear and torturous death, one's own fleeting body then also composed of suffering and fear and torturous death energy. Thank the tree that cultures it's fruits from the suns energy and earths water and minerals and air. Thank the plant that grew in the sun and was ripped from the earth and hacked up to become ones vegetables. Thank the grains that were kind enough to transmute the earth and water and sun and air into bio-available energy from sharing it's miraculous living seeds. Do not feed the products of the earth and sun and air and water to other living beings to be tortured and murdered. This is converting good food energy into purposeless torture and murder, and thermodynamically a wasteful burden to both the earth and one's own energy and peace-in-mind. Do not pay other beings to do what one would personally wish to do or have done to them. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Mindfulness is my shield, emptyness my foundation, equanimous Love my path.

Perhaps rather than staying busy maintaining 'knowing' things, appreciate this perception of Now brother. Then no longer will it matter about Buddha, that would be Buddha shaped idolatry not liberation. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Love and fear are the two possible roots of all human arisen thought. When one chooses only Love rooted thought, the manifestation of this Love is compassionate actions (ultimately always both to self and others alike simultaneously). When one chooses only fear rooted thought, the manifestation of this fear is un-compassionate actions (ultimately always both to self and others alike simultaneously). I am equally grateful to the beings who shared cruelty with me as those who shared kindness, as without them both then neither could be appreciated. With respect to labeling a human bias towards aspects of the divine, omnipresent, and omniscient, it's best left in the hands of folks who are better at pretending they can know/relate/describe/categorize the unknowable. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Buddhism is the art/science of concluding delusion and attachment. The aspects of Buddhism which aren't challenging your delusions, aren't causing ego discomfort, aren't inspiring greater awareness of reality are the aspects which are distraction wasting this one moment. Unlimited Love, -Bud

This is drawing conclusions from a false set of assumptions brother. Light is a 'speed limit' of nothing. Entanglement has been tested in hundreds of unique experiments as a minimum of >C^2, as in 'faster' then speed of light times the speed of light. C is no limit of anything beyond Einsteins imagination bounds, which he later surrendered clinging to as entanglement experiments crushed his misconceptions into impossibility of being reality. Shedding the misconceptions IS the path. Clinging to them is the mechanism by which one concludes their path. Unlimited Love, -Bud

A hole dug deep enough can still arrive at a mountain top. Climbing is the preferred path of some, digging the preferred path of some, I wish them all luck on the journey.

The answer and peace is appreciation of emptiness. Unlimited Love, -Bud

All the letters in this thread were typed by folks 'moving' at ~117,000km/hr on a little blue marble spaceship around the sun, whilst the sun is 'moving' at ~828,000km/hr taking our solar system with it through the milky way, which is 'moving' at ~1.332 Million miles per hour. It doesn't require traveling around the earth or whatnot. If one puts a wrist watch on, at the moment ones arm moves, its now experienced a different period of 'time' than the portion of ones body that didn't move with the wrist. The illusion of consistency in 'time' is merely an artifact of the capacity to instrument reality, and instead make clocks as aids/props for pretending time is something realer than artifact. Motion, rate, distance, time illusions don't exist outside the delusions of some confused humans believing in them as a result of cripplingly limited mechanisms of perception. Unlimited Love, -Bud

When one examens the illusion of 'motion' it collapses into arbitrary reference artifacts. When one examens the illusion of 'time' it collapses into arbitrary reference artifacts. When one examens the illusion of 'distance' it collapses into arbitrary reference artifacts. To gain the delusion of understanding the non-real is to add an additional obstacle in perception of the real. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Becoming only clouds is the devout's path. (blind fear/faith path, etc) Becoming only clarity of realization is an alternative path. (self-realization path, guru path etc) Both the Headonist and the Ascetic paths are capable of arriving at complete detachment, one path is to mindfully over-satiate all interests in pleasure, one is to mindfully choose to destroy/deny all interest in pleasure. Both paths lead to the same place, and all realization must eventually be shed as delusions to gain ultimate wisdom (Embracing the Emptyness/Oneness). Infinite paths to the same place, the only ensured failure is to try to copy a path already taken (because you will only suffer the delusion of what their path may have been). Unlimited Love, -Bud

Nor does it transform a being into something without capacity to choose its own action.

Enlightenment doesn't imply ones actions will be better or worse than anyone elses. Without delusion and without attachment one may still behave as one pleases. Do as thou wilt shall be the only law. This is true for all living beings. If a path rooted in compassion (Love) can lead to enlightenment, a path rooted in non-compassion (fear) can also lead to enlightenment. Enlightenment is a choice in perception of Now. This does not inherently imply good/bad loving/unloving etc. Unlimited Love, -Bud

The mountains 'return' because they never left. Misperception induced delusions do not return, they only previously existed in the confusion of a human mind. When the confusion departs, they vanish cleanly into no-thing.

All of 'special relativity' is perception reference artifact. To 'learn' special relativity is to become indoctrinated with a non-reality delusion. Entanglement is universal (and measured at a minimum of >C^2). The 'relative' is perception limitation alone (lack of any true reference). Special relativity is no longer, just as Newtons delusions prior are no longer and current quantum entanglement models that are not Oneness will also be discarded after folks think of better test setups. Unlimited Love, -Bud

http://www.natureworldreport.com/2015/10/quantum-entanglement-all-but-confirmed/ Clocks are boxes of cogs or arrangements of silicon. Time remains an artifact of human perception limitation. Rate implies a distance over time. There remains Oness and human perception limitation induced confusion as to the nature of reality when the Oneness appears as a collection of separates. Unlimited Love, -Bud

After reading this thread, I ordered 1lbs of Reishi powder. First day I took ~3g. Noticed effects not unlike the ramping up of a psychedelic coming on, but no visuals and no trip, and it seemed to last for more than 24hrs. No flood of serotonin and dopamine sensation, just an odd perception like looking through a different set of eyes, more clarity in some ways less clarity in others. Following day perception felt oddly neutral rather than holding back tears of joy as usual. Had to mindfully stay awake at work, and when I got home I had to nap a couple times, then I felt fine. This is very different than than after a psychedelic experience which leaves me feeling like I'm glowing with positive energy (and very humbled). Waited 2 days and took 5g last night 2 hours before bed. My wife and I got into a chilly bed, I did some deep breathing to generate heat to warm us (which works extremely well). While deep breathing, I had a sensation like a thread being drawn out of the middle of my forehead, as I continued to take deep breaths, it grew from a single thread to the sensation of a buzzing vibrating rope being pulled rapidly from my forehead. Words can't adequately describe the next perception, but I will attempt in vain anyways. I had the sensation of what I can only describe as energy blasting out of my forehead in a cone shaped path, and further this energy was encountering other forms of energy that were either drawn to it or just happened to be there. Somehow I was able to share awareness intent with the perception of other energies that unless they wanted to become only unconditional Love, they should keep their distance, some left, some stayed, then with a steady flow of deep breaths and mindful focus I expanded this cone of Love energy still very tactically erupting from my forehead to try to encompass the whole universe. This was working and I won't even try to describe the sensation, then I lost awareness of everything (maybe passed out?). I don't know how long it was before I woke again, but I was covered in sweat and fatigued, and the presence of many humbling powerful 'energies' (I don't know how to describe the very clear perception of an energy being). I again attempted to blast the tremendous cone of Love energy, but it felt only like drawing the little thread through very weakly, I took some deep breaths and it increased to a steady slow thread drawing sensation again. I felt physically and mentally exhausted, and somehow communicated my intent was to become only Loving energy and that I Loved and accepted all of the universe and it's beings unconditionally, then fell asleep. No dreams, woke feeling great and normal. Today behind the center of my forehead has been giving the sensation of a faint tickle. I offer no explanation, just sharing my experience with Reishi (and not in large doses, and I didn't boil it first, just added powder to water and drank). I've never had an experience like that before in all the plants I've asked for teachings. Unlimited Love, -Bud

The middle path is unmappable. Walking the path is done in Now one compassion rooted thought/action/step at a time. Beyond this are constructions labeled 'middle-path' not the path. That said, the constructions can be a form of beautiful art, this thread is like an art gallery of and for the mind. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Quoting anything, particularly something that has been re-translated is a fools game, thank you kindly for highlighting the discrepancy. There is an alternative translation I had read prior which doesn't mention anything other than "religion" rather than pointlessly naming some as whomever created this version decided to do. Like with any arrangements of letters, pick the gold from the tillings, then discard the tillings. Then discard the gold. Unlimited Love, -Bud

That was the Buddhas own description. "Gautam Buddha - Does God exist" Once upon a time, Gautam Buddha was visiting a village. While he was entering the village, one man asked him, "Does God exist?". Gautam Buddha replied, "No, Absolutely not." The man went after hearing the answer. In the afternoon, another man came and asked, "Does God exist?". Buddha replied, "Yes, of-course". Later in the evening, another person came and asked, "Does God exist?". Buddha did not answer and kept silence. Then he closed his eyes. On seeing this, the man also became silent and closed his eyes. Then something transpired in the silence. Then the man opened his eyes, with a smile and tears in his eyes, touched Buddha's feet and with a heart full of gratitude thanked Buddha and said, "You are the first and only man who actually answered my question." One of Buddha's attendant, Ananda, on seeing all this became puzzled as to what the truth is. So when Buddha was going to sleep, Ananda said, "First you answer me; otherwise I will not be able to sleep. You have to be a little more compassionate towards me too. I have been with you the whole day. Those three people don't know about the other answers, but I have heard all the three answers. What about me? I am troubled." Buddha said, "I was not talking to you at all! You had not asked, I had not answered YOU. The first man who came was a theist, the second man who came was an atheist, the third man who came was an agnostic. My answer had nothing to do with God, my answer had something to do with the questioner. I was answering the questioner; it was absolutely unconcerned with God. "The person who believes in God, I will say no to him because I want him to drop his idea of God, I want him to be free of his idea of God -- which is borrowed. He has not experienced. If he had experienced he would not have asked me; there would have been no need. "The person who believed in God, he was trying to find confirmation for his belief from me. I was not going to say yes to him -- I am not going to confirm anybody's belief. I had to say no, I had to deny, just to destroy his belief, because all beliefs are barriers to knowing the truth. Theist or atheist, all beliefs, Hindu or Christian or Mohammedan, all beliefs are barriers. "The person who did not believe in God, also only had a belief that needed to be broken. Else he would never start to search the truth and will only accept his belief as truth. "And the person with whom I remained silent was the right inquirer. He had no belief, hence there was no question of destroying anything. I kept silent. That was my message to him: Be silent and know. Don't ask, there is no need to ask. It is not a question which can be answered. It is not an inquiry but a quest, a thirst. Be silent and know. I had answered him also; through my silence I gave him the message and he immediately followed it -- he also became silent. I closed my eyes, he closed his eyes; I looked in, he looked in, and then something transpired. That's why he was so much overwhelmed, he felt so much gratitude, for the simple reason that I did not give him any intellectual answer. He had not come for any intellectual answer; intellectual answers are available very cheap. He needed something existential -- he needed a taste. I gave him a taste."

Logos is the process of nature, way of nature, phenomena. It was 'God' until a mass delusion of God personification and the delusion God had to be searched for and found somewhere perpetuated by most organized 'religion'(a mis-nomer when its construct indoctrination based.) Unlimited Love, -Bud