"The Practices of purifying negativites and accumulating merit are the heart of the many methods taught in the Buddhist sutra and tantra teachings for attaining enlightenment. To gain any mental, or spiritual, development whatsoever, it is absolutely nessesary to purify the negativites of body, speech, and mind that we have accumulated throughout our beginningless lives. These negativites have left imprints on our mental continuum that at some future time will ripen in the experience of suffering. Therefore, to advoid rebirth in the lower realms and the experience of unhappiness in future lives, and to gain liberation and enlightenment, it is essential to purify our mental continuum."
[From: Everlasting Rain of Nectar/Geshe Jampa Gyatso
And so with this i'd like to appoligise to EVERYONE @ the Genius Form, and especially to "pierdog" . I have wasted enough of my time and yours here. It was fun while it lasted, but i have been neglecting my practices and have been rolling around in the gutter long enough. This has been a valuable learning experience for myself however, so i guess all is not lost. Had it not been for the shattering dialouge between "pierdog" and myself , i wouldn't be drawn back to my path as a Buddhist...so i sincerely thank you "pierdog" for this.
I have learned quite a few things here about the nature of Masculinity & Femininity, anyways...more than i was aware of before i came here. I know i still have a long ways to go to catch up with you guys.
Enough babbling..........
Peace
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Negativites of Body,Speech & Mind
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"Geshe Jampa Gyatso" - no one with such a name can have any wisdom! :-)
Seriously though, I don't like his idea of a "mental continuum". He seems to be the same as all the other literal rebirth Buddhists.
Seriously though, I don't like his idea of a "mental continuum". He seems to be the same as all the other literal rebirth Buddhists.
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Good on ya, Kunga. I wish you well on your Buddhist journey. You've been a tonic.
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[From "The Illusion of God" ==http://www.lulu ... /8527493==these words are written:
Never give power to anything a person believes is their source of strength - jufa
Nice knowing you Kunga.Because men believe they hold the world within the palm of their hands, they become satisfied in the logic and reasoning of the world. Why should we seek to find the wholeness of our existence, they proclaim, when we are satisfied and happy in our pride and vanity? When we die, if we die, we are no more, so eat, drink and be merry. This attitude was the mechanism which changed "the truth of God into a lie." It is also the mechanism which changed the worldfrom the mentality of the dark age to the industrial revolution and then, to the space age. But it did not change man's consciousness or his selfish possessive pride which "worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator."
The minds of men give them a false sense of independence causing me to believe the images projected by their minds are original and exclusive to them. These images are exclusive to men in the exactness of experience only, but they do not originate in man's mind because the images are omnipresent within the etheral of the universe. And mind attuned to a pattern[s] of thought can receive andy images within those patterns according to their Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personalities. Nonetheless, this false sense of independence cause men to believe they can manipulate matter and be dominant as to how life is "to be or not to be" cocerning their lives and the lives of other men.
What men do not understand is that their false sense of independence is based upon and awareness of thought, a Pure Awareness of a mataphor which is a mystery. That life is a mystery and men are the living metaphor of that mystery. This is what life is. It is the feelings of the thinking which is awareness of an experience which cannot be comprehended by the human mind. This experience differs in the human realm. Experience in the human realm is thought awareness of feelings. Subjective feelings are the spirit of life of object visions, which are dead in thought to the reality of oneness. This is why it is stated "God is the God of the living." All creation is alive because of God's Spirit of life.
THE ILLUSION OF GOD
Never give power to anything a person believes is their source of strength - jufa
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Kunga,
It was a pleasure to know you. I learned much from you, in many surprising, unexpected ways :)
Happy trails...
It was a pleasure to know you. I learned much from you, in many surprising, unexpected ways :)
Happy trails...