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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    It should all go without saying but as it turns out, I eventually did have to say something.




    If you felt it was disrespectful, you have misunderstood the spirit in which I am coming...
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    Why didn't you say so in the first place? Could have saved us both a lot of time..
    Your first statement is a bit much, even disrespectful, but it's a great reminder if I ever wonder if I should...
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    Trying not to get hung up on Buddhism,
    But in their basic concentration training, that is the anapanasati sutta based meditations.
    There are 8 very well defined and reproducible states of...
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    potato potato.


    I saw what you wrote to Star, but it still made me wonder..


    Isn't being free from the illusion of samsara and karma exactly what the Buddha or any enlightened master is...
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    It appears as ludicrous to me that you start by stating stuff the Buddha supposedly knew and then disregard what he actually said about it. Then disregard over 2500 years of study by people who...
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    If I may add a pdf to this list?
    https://www.saraniya.com/books/meditation/Bhikkhu_Bodhi-Comprehensive_Manual_of_Abhidhamma.pdf (The full Theravadan philosophy and study of the workings of the mind)
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    Yup nothing like catching yourself stomping angerly to and fro in the meditation hall over some perceived idea of wrongdoing the mind is making up at that moment.
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    This is entering into the area of Freewill. And this is another area of contention and confusion. Does it exist or not? :)[/QUOTE]


    No to the first, I mean vipassana. To be specific the way it...
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    When one cuts a finger, there is the sensation and the bleeding.
    Suffering only enters the mind if one let's it. It is the mind reliving the pain it already experienced... ergo suffering..


    I...
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    Re: Name a popular food/dish from your area

    On a cold day, nothing can beat this..


    snert or dutch-pea-soup


    https://coquinaria.nl/wp-content/uploads/erwtensoep3.jpg
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    Karma in my humble opinion has changed much of it's meaning over the years.
    For those staying in the moment, Stubbing ones toe unto the imaginary table leg will usually result in strangely hopping...
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    Re: Samsara, Karma & How To Escape

    Co-creative life cycles. Are just that. co-created life appearing cyclical.
    They are imagined and through the spheres manifest in all the realms imagined.
    Samsara or Karma are not traps. They are...
  13. Re: You Must Divorce Your Political Party To See The Truth

    https://libcom.org/files/AlexanderBerkman-ABCofAnarchism.pdf

    Here's a book that made me an anarchist manny moons ago.
    It's a bit dated, but made a compelling case back then.

    With Love
    Eelco
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    Re: The Great Quotes thread

    “It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.”

    ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise





    With Love
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    Re: Echo Chamber

    Back to the op. It seem that complaining about blunt stalking helps to get someone of a thread...
    Covert 1, 2's are more difficult to spot.

    I do notice an absence in some members post and an...
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    Re: Predictions for 2021

    That's why he references the 1960s. Says there will be a lot of protest.

    The ironic thing is that tropical astrologers say the Jup/Sat conjunction happened in Aquarius, not Capricorn. Aquarius is...
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    Re: Echo Chamber

    Jordan Sather debunks the article in a recent video. Although I do prefer the rebuttal David Whitehead gave of it last week.

    Just the first comment under Jordan’s video should be enough to...
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    Good points. That's what falls under the price to pay in my ideas.
    To be honest, I think that smaller communities will find ways to collaborate on larger scale projects, but evolving into a...
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    Yes. Anarchism.

    Unlike popular belief anarchism follows some rules and is applicable in a meridad of methodologies.
    Some of which are quite well thought out.

    What they have in common is a...
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    Sticky: Re: Here and Now...What's Happening?

    Coocie monsters do exist
    Here's a pair of fossilized ones

    www.goodnewsnetwork.org/geologist-finds-cookie-monster-rock/
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