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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...