Informer
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Haha, then I guess you are being my teacher in that respect.
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I think some may benefit from a different form of teacher than others. I learned by reading it and practicing it. (The trick of the 1 inch punch) So then Bruce Lee was my teacher? or The guys at the boxing club are my teacher? or I am my teacher? or I didn't have a teacher? I guess it depends on the perspective. I was in a boxing club as well so we had punching bags and each other to practice on and critique
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For physical confrontation I think I will stick to snapping at the end of a punch. This is evident in both boxing and bruce lee's one inch punch. By staying relax until the final moment you save energy verse being tense. If you punch someone without any firmness you break your hand. By waiting until the last second to stiffen you can increase the momentum of the attack by swinging your hips and and snapping your wrist (or sudden stiffening), like Bruce Lee did with the one inch punch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeg_5bba6-M In sparring I don't think the objective is to hurt the opponent, so I wouldn't be using the stiffening or snapping or hips. Probably would use it to just practice the motions and develop reflex of them. Thanks for the video ChiDragon.
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I'm curious how much time is wasted thinking and worrying about what others think? I used to do this a bunch and realize how much torture it is really. It's like the will becomes the images will and something to constantly live up to and keep up, to grow and get bigger until it explodes into a star, a glorious flaming star disintegrating into vibrant plumes in the hue of the sun. The entire form becomes as formless as the evaporation of water to gases and wood to ashes, all of the particles from the miniscule sub-atomic and apparently chaotic, to the vast masses spanned from intergalactic clashes, all of which is nothing more than a part of an ever entangled system. A part of the planet becomes the remnants of the dust in the aftermath of the emergence to define the essence merging. Is the dust of the falling star anything more or less the star then it is a part of the planet? Is any of it any less or anymore then a part of the universe? How significant I thought my existence to be, until the perspective shifted brilliantly to see what the universe would see as me. I am less then sub-atmoic in comparison to the grand scheme unable to begin to truly fathom eternity. How insignificant I appear to be, yet I am no less then a part of the entirety.
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Thanks!
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Thanks! So then was he referring to ones perspective of reality versus actuality? Like some who have a materialistic stance and adamantly deny anything spiritual or mystical, who put an emphasis on external objectivity, verse the seeking and finding within the subjective realm of realizations. I think that ignorance is a proper word in this respect in just not knowing or caring of the subjective realm within. I wonder if there is another translation of that quote? Thanks for the attachment!
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The energy "center" for love is located at the thymus gland.
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He may think that he's teleporting around in the astral realm fixing people, heheh.
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I think the hardest part for many is learning to forgive and love oneself, yet it seems like you are on the right path for it and may find a deeper understanding within it, just because love doesn't have some of the connotation instilled as firmly as it is into some. Have you tried to internally reconcile and come to terms within? The reason you're not fitting in, could be because the box they are trying to stuff you in is too small.
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Poor me, poor poor little me . . . Relax dude, I think it's a decisive advantage over having an over inflated ego, now just realize non of those aspects you think of as reality are actuality. You really don't need companionship or to be social or have a status or things like that, those things are just imagery of society, which is not even reality let alone actuality.
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Would it make a difference at all to know?
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Recently I got to speak with an enlightened master and ask what enlightenment is.
Informer replied to Thunder_Gooch's topic in Buddhist Discussion
Something that doesn't seem to be true to me is this vow: Realistically this seems to be wanting and desire and hope. It seems in reality not everyone cares to be enlightened or liberated, which is a choice. To seek to imbue upon others what you have yet to experience is ignorance at its finest. People take this vow with wanting and desire in mind, when it is only pointing towards compassion. Its not a label or something to wear, or an edge to have in seeking enlightenment, it is an aspect of it. A pointer to that aspect. This vow seems to hold a similar premise to the one christians used to orchestrate the crusades. Save everyone! heh. -
Fairy tales used to entice children creativity to make them more pliable to conform to a specific mold. The USA uses Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny to mold us towards christian consumerism.
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Recently I got to speak with an enlightened master and ask what enlightenment is.
Informer replied to Thunder_Gooch's topic in Buddhist Discussion
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Have any of our needs really changed over all of these years, or has it only been the wants that have changed?
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Where the bottom bones of your rib cage connect.
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I understand what you are saying K. There are different circumstances and people put even more emphasis and pride in trivial matters today then before. Life was pretty clear-cut and simple in the past, from our current perspective, however I think the struggles within were similar. The phenomena underlying the illusions hasn't seemed to change much at all. 1000 years ago we would probably be burned at the stake for even considering anything other than which was indoctrinated in our society, so that is one of prominent adversities a seeker would have had to deal with.(Depending on where you were born) It seems pretty much every region indoctrinates and indoctrinated as well has even enforce culture, tradition, beliefs into those who live there. We are privy to much more info, yet it is much more info to consider and work through as well. I think there is a sort of balance between past present and future in regards to NOW. That is seemingly the commonality of it, they were all occurring now for those who were perceiving at the time, as it is still occurring for us right now. I don't think Now has actually changed, only the perceptions and illusions seem to change.(That is what they do)
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Recently I got to speak with an enlightened master and ask what enlightenment is.
Informer replied to Thunder_Gooch's topic in Buddhist Discussion
Depends on what you consider to be "The Truth". I have found truth in some things that many teachings are pointing at if that's what you mean? -
Yeah, I think it is one of the main reasons I'm so bad at History, lol. A lot of it requires accepting a belief or hypothesis as fact, heh. There doesn't seem to be a lot of actual knowing, yet there are elements of historical texts which coincide with each other and with both mystical and subjective phenomena.
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Recently I got to speak with an enlightened master and ask what enlightenment is.
Informer replied to Thunder_Gooch's topic in Buddhist Discussion
Doing that would not provide truth to you, for you can only find this truth within and first hand. -
Recently I got to speak with an enlightened master and ask what enlightenment is.
Informer replied to Thunder_Gooch's topic in Buddhist Discussion
Exactly. Ask the question while you "Innersmile" at the "third eye". -
Good post's. I think particularly Anatta is being abused, which can be alternatively used for brainwashing and entrapment rather than liberation. When someone says there is absolutely no existence, they are likely lost for good or just trying to convince you of it to increase their willpower over you. Existence seems to have quite an advantage over non-existence in the physical realm, heh.
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Maybe each culture simply discovered it in their own way, by seeking through questioning. What began all of this questioning becoming questing within? Religions do seem extremely similar at certain points, maybe it is simply describing an actuality in subjective terms and different languages. It seems like some are designed as fables (exercising creativity) while others have a more philosophical inclination(exercising logic). Some grasp the entirety of the situation describing and utilizing both aspects. Some have bits and pieces of original truth that became mangled in vying for power and control and even reasoning for expansion and conquest. I think that being open to all of them without adhering to one allows us to further evaluate the subjective actuality each one attempts to describe in its own way.
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Yes, I think you are correct: BC 483 - Gautama Buddha, Date of death (source: google.com) So the original hypothesis seems to be incorrect. Here is some mor info in regards to the timeline and history of thing:
