Karma is a complex subject, to quote newbie-one, because it is a belief system that extends beyond logic and facts. In fact that makes it so...
There is one paradoxical issue in the title, a glaring one. "You" may want "it", but firstly it might be worth considering what "you" and "it" are...
Thanks Kathy L I will consider your reply, much makes sense. The above also appears reasonable but some is problematic. That highlighted in...
It all seems a little bit convenient to me. Buddha essentially said not to inquire for yourself on this matter ? Yet on matters of Buddhist...
A news story from today. a girl from Mexico headed to USA to have a course of life saving treatment paid for by a charity which she had and her...
Then it is up to an individual, it can be no other way really to determine whether belief is acceptable in place of sure knowledge. Anecdotes...
"I also get a strong sense that meditation is every moment and this is the next step, to be the flow, or to be with the energetic base line which...
"The act of giving produces no beneficial results; Good and bad actions produce no results; After death, beings are not reborn into the present...
I am finding many, speaking to others about 'spiritual' matters from the Buddhist/ Eastern perspective seems somewhat egotistical on reflection,...
The intrigue continues as the above came as an inspiration and lead up to watching a J.Krishnmurti video suggesting that a conscious decision to...
I am getting somewhere ! Which is of course nowhere, or right to where I am. My Zen master, should I have had one, would be pleased.:) Do I...
The Tibetans seem very much eyes open oriented. TTBOLAD suggetss looking at Padmasambhava image or reciting the mantra above. Little mentioned...
Just came out of meditation and I am feeling more and more *enlightenment is a decision we must make, one that we do not want to make as opposed...
I have hit page 140 and it is quite clear how critical the master/disciple relationship is in Tibetan Buddhism. As such I am not entirely sure I...
Is it a decision we will not make ? A decision implies a separation within out psyche, a split entity that decides ? If we did all that is...
I read 2/3rd of Tibetan book of the dead and had a very hard time of it. Lots of speak of states and ghouls and other weird phenomena and...
Ok thanks KathyL. That could be useful as some days I do drift off into an unconscious haze which is the precursor to a snore and abrupt upright...
for anyone to watch, serene, beautiful story, enigmatic, deep, serious, compassionate, human. Produced to capture some essence of the teachings....
I use the term enlightenment in the sense that the spiritual use, just for ease of recognition, a label.. there that will do, a label. This is...
I have started reading this book and am 100 pages in or so. I am enjoying it for what it is. Quite judgemental towards the west in its opening...
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