old3bob
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I don't know...exciting or spooky are sensations of the senses and may or may not need an element of or degree of fear to be felt. There are a lot thrill seekers out there, some playing with deathly risk or potential to somehow feel alive...anyway well calculated risk is one thing, over the top bravado is another that sometimes does not end well...
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
old3bob replied to galen_burnett's topic in General Discussion
Just dropping by for a moment....Is not complexity often problematic, Btw, "what does Siddhartha eventually hear from the river? What do they hear? Siddhartha and Vasudeva listen to the river so that Siddhartha can receive healing for the loss of his son. Siddhartha and Vasudeva hear the Om", which is cosmically simple but powerful. -
I'd say fear as a natural survival mechanism is one thing and normal so to speak, while fear as a crippling divisive "mind killer" (as well pointed to in various teachings) is another; and when such fear and doubt are overcome then unity, strength and a knowing faith with experience takes it place, aka an indomitable will driven by the purity of wisdom. To paraphrase a saying, "that which he opens can not be closed and that which he closes can not be opened" . Btw. the saying "Fear Not" is also found in a great many teachings...
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one could ask what does Lord Jesus or a Christ soul or a high soul like Enoch with God have doubts about? Also and for instance Jesus is said to have said, "Behold I make all things new.." thus there is no lack of or ending of creativity at all!
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I'm not into all the verbal and wordy gymnastics about form, emptiness, delusion or illusion per Buddhism...The Self to me per the Upanishads is so much clearer and straight forward in comparison! Btw, I'd say there is no disconnect or lack of connection/emantation from the so called absolute to the so called relative, thus there is no real illusion to harp about.
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logically if relative truth is not included with absolute truth then everything can not be perfect... btw the same applies to a distorted lens as you say. Also if we keep digging pits into conundrums we will fall into them...yet who doesn't want doubt erased?
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Yea I get the abstraction drift, but still the first Noble Truth in Buddhism speaks to me of suffering not so much as just an abstraction but also as a fact. As for "Buddha nature" which some schools of Buddhism except (while some don't) suffering as a fact has been overcome. and if something is overcome then before such an over-coming everything is not perfect.
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
old3bob replied to galen_burnett's topic in General Discussion
its another day in paradise if we can see it and help it to be so...- 568 replies
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Why study martial arts if you'd never fight back?
old3bob replied to Franky's topic in General Discussion
some little dogs can be mean but not scary compared to say a threatening Great Dane! Was charged by a grizz once in a Montana/Idaho wilderness area, that was scary since he could have had us for lunch but didn't follow through thankfully! We still had to camp out the same night before leaving the wooded area and every sound in the woods had me on edge thinking he might have come back to check us out!- 66 replies
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Why study martial arts if you'd never fight back?
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it exactly has to do with Mark's sense of humor...and could even have some application with wild critters. some dogs hesitate with barks before attacking, not always so for dachshunds, had one come right at me and bite the lower leg without pause!- 66 replies
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is there a shark or bear attack in there somewhere?- 66 replies
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Why study martial arts if you'd never fight back?
old3bob replied to Franky's topic in General Discussion
Gandhi on fighting: https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/fighting-for-peace-the-Gandhian-way.html -
but the in house Buddha there said their corny-ness was only a passing appearance so to whoop it up while you can....
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Losing track of what day it is is common, losing track of what month it is, not so common, losing track of what year it is is very uncommon. Besides keeping track of time we have so much in the world of things to keep track of and take care of ! So it often ends up that we may have some time for spiritual being-ness or nature but we are mostly visitors there instead of that being our home, how great it would be to turn things around and just be visitors to the "world" instead....
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
old3bob replied to galen_burnett's topic in General Discussion
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those blues folks are a very long ways away in miles, time and culture to the wild and wooly west but what the heck....the more the merrier
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ok, but Tao also "goes far" to the ten thousand so to speak, yet returns as in "only no-thing can enter into no space" so we have both flows...
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It seems there could be some problems if that saying is over generalized? For instance: "Man follows ways of Earth the Earth follows the ways of Heaven, Heaven follows the way of Tao, Tao follows it own ways" from chapter 25. Thus with the ways of Man and Earth often being the ways of the jungle, or of claw and tooth. Thus one would have to go upstream to higher ways compared to just letting things go downstream to the ways of the jungle and which some might take as not letting nature take its course.
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
old3bob replied to galen_burnett's topic in General Discussion
Hello Mark, it sounds like some terms above are getting mixed up or could be clarified imo, for instance: Brahmin-= the human priestly class in Hinduism Brahma= one cycle of ever recurring cyclic Lord Brahma the creator (lasting an entire cosmic cycle thus an exceedingly long time) Brahman= the undefinable beyond all categories, Aka the Self as pointed to in the Upanishads and elsewhere. Sometimes Brahmin and Brahman are mixed up even in Hinduism but I don't see why...- 568 replies
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no-thing is not nothing, human mind is naturally aghast at no-thing (unless prepared) since it is a thing
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a stock photo a little closer to sunset and of slightly farther down river...
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My take is that there is no illusion, only incorrect or incomplete perception, thus it could be or is "God" in manifestation...
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
old3bob replied to galen_burnett's topic in General Discussion
I might be able to make some fair judgement on that if I was an advanced and qualified Buddhist practitioner but I'm not. (but i get your drift)- 568 replies
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Again, my take is that no human effort can win Grace by subtle ulterior motive, or design, or by force for itself, Grace makes that choice. But sure one could be an advanced yogi with fine accomplishments in some forms of meditation along with practice in various yoga's and thus reach heavenly realms or attain certain siddhi's ; so yes all of those can be gained just as certain Rishis did in ancient or modern times yet still end up loosing it all which was gained in this world and the next...(which btw. is pointed out in the Upanishads), so there is a a gap which only the power of revealing Grace of Self Realization can bridge. Interesting to me that the anti-guru, guru of Mr. J.K. is quoted, who per his personal recount made it part way but then going by his further manifesto can be quoted as taking an arrogant and hostile position against the ways of true Gurus, and thus imo lost it.