Maddie

Romantic love is about attachment. Altruistic love is the opposite. In the foundation of buddhism, the four noble truths, and the second truth the Buddha said that the cause of suffering is attachment. To say that this is no longer necessary to deal with to become enlightened goes against the very root of what the Buddha taught. We tend to look for excuses to justify our strongest attachments.

Enlightenment according to the Buddha isn't opening the heart. It's ending suffering.

You must argue your point good sir lol 🧐

Ah where we get the word "Simony" - trying to buy positions or power within the church.

Stage tricks still fool people in the twenty-first century, so imagine what effect they had on people in the first!

That's certainly what the Jew's of his day and after considered him.

When I was in acupuncture school I had a classmate, one of those light and love types. She judged me for doing Jujitsu and said it would just attract violence I said I thought there was a "Tao of sorts within it" which she rejected. Then I asked her what she did for self defense and she said that she "just didn't manifest problems like that". About a year later the poor girl got sexually assaulted by her date. Some Jujitsu could have really come in handy. I felt bad for her.

Not the kind of stuff you're going to hear about in your typical church service lol. I wonder if he won his fight? lol

Trans witches riding unicorns?

It seems like every topic about powers like this or Mo Pie really become heated. Powers are of the ego and the ego is what leads to conflict.

Oh nice, Texas lol

What is golden shield? I've never heard of that. Thanks for sharing!

There is a story that one time the Buddha was on a river bank with some of his followers and he came across a yogi that informed the Buddha that he had just walked across the water of the river to get to where he was now. The Buddha asked him how long it took him to accomplish this feat to which the yogi responded 20 years. To that the Buddha replied that he just took the boat and it took him 20 minutes.

Oh they really are! I was in a cult, and the leaders were rich and lived in mansions.

I'm always warry of those that want to develop powers. It sounds like a very egocentric thing. It also reminds me of a bunch of kids on a play ground playing Harry Potter.

This seems like Mo Pai 2.0

The only people that fear skeptics are charlatans and the delusional. Healthy skepticism is good.

After having been in a cult myself I can say that is exactly what cultists say lol

Why are we talking about rape? desireless arousal is like "wetless" water

can one get aroused without desire?

is there a difference between arousal and desire?

"I should start a YouTube channel.... I really should have handled that grappling situation in jujitsu last week differently..... do snail's dream?...." after 30 seconds of meditation.

That's exactly what I want to think!

One can spend a lifetime trying to prove or disprove infinite claims. Better to focus on the things that matter. I could try to prove that dinosaurs had a secret space ship hidden under the ice of Antarctica, but since there is very little reason to assume so, why would I want to spend my limited time doing that?

If I'm going to trust someone's claim it is because they can present verifiable evidence that stands up to investigation aka "the scientific method". So its based on the research method, not the person. About an infinite number of claims I go back to my "so what" example. If proven true, does it matter, and why does it matter? The Buddha used the illustration of a handful of leaves. He held a handful of leaves and said "this handful of leaves is what I have taught you. The forest contains what I have not taught you. What I have taught you is sufficient for liberation."