My purpose is to find my purpose

[Songtsan]

Edited December 30, 2013 by Songtsan

[Songtsan]

No one makes a move without making others move

Sameness does not exist

Commands of mice can control the minds of men

Edited December 30, 2013 by Songtsan

[Songtsan]

Every spoken word suggests the belief in existence of self

It is not possible to say a single thing without saying ten thousand things

No-thing can be understood as it was meant.

Intentions are never met as intended. Action-Reactions multiply infinitely.

Seeking is grasping. Actions are attempts to change. Change occurs endlessly regardless.

Attachment to specific outcomes creates suffering and will never result in the desired event.

Mind fabrications are suffering and bliss and everything else

To end mind fabrications is extinction of thought constructs

Edited December 30, 2013 by Songtsan

[Songtsan]

Is it merely attachment to pleasure or negative attachment to suffering to want to end the fabrications?

 

Is there anywhere to go?

 

Anything to attain (besides bliss)?

 

serious question...

 

what is the goal?

 

What if one just lets go and doesn't care where one ends up?

 

Delusional sleep dream with one eye open/one closed?

Edited December 30, 2013 by Songtsan

[Songtsan]

Until I have some overarching goal or point that I am aiming for, I will forever be running hither and thither on endless wild goose chases...it seems that one first has to be convinced of a higher end purpose...this hasn't happened to me yet. So for now my purpose is to find that purpose - so that I know what to home in on.

 

Here are examples of potential purposes:

 

-Nirvana

-Bodhisattva vow

-Spiritual immortality with fixed identity in some spiritual plane

 

Knowing what is possible is a start to choosing a purpose..

 

What is possible?

 

What do you think is possible?

 

What is your goal?

[BaguaKicksAss]

ah somewhere I can move your posts to . We don't delete posts.

[Songtsan]

Edited December 30, 2013 by Songtsan

[Taomeow]

There's a famous Zhuangzi story about a useless tree. "The trunk is so distorted, so full of knots, no one can get a straight plank out of it. The branches are so crooked you cannot cut them up in any way that makes sense.”

The tree, being completely useless to those who would cut it down if it could be saddled with a "purpose," grew to an enormous size without fearing the carpenter's ax. It became home to countless creatures. The ground underneath, protected from the sun and the rain, became a shelter, a shrine, an earth-altar. The useless tree acquired a multitude of useful functions precisely because it had no purpose.

[BaguaKicksAss]

Change them into pictures?

 

No.

 

That is your job .

[Songtsan]

No.

 

That is your job .

I will I will! need 2 scan images tho

[Unseen_Abilities]

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Edited January 31, 2014 by Unseen_Abilities

[Wells]

 

My purpose is to find my purpose

 

Listen to and learn from the Masters!

 

 

 

 

 

[tumoessence]

Make one up.

[Songtsan]

Take a look at your early Childhood for clues as to your Purpose.

 

to explore!

[Songtsan]

Make one up.

 

but it needs to have weight...

[Songtsan]

Purposes are things of minds

Minds are things of bodies

Bodies are things of Earth vacations

 

agree/disagree?

[Songtsan]

[silent thunder]

Any purpose I can discern of late, is to:

1) Be

2) Love

 

These two seem to co-arise...

[tumoessence]

but it needs to have weight...

Give it weight. You have the power....................................and freedom.(most importantly)

Edited December 30, 2013 by tumoessence

[Unseen_Abilities]

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Edited January 31, 2014 by Unseen_Abilities