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Old 18-03-2019, 09:07 PM
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Christianity has the "selfless" thing down pretty good. All truth in religion points to the same thing, but Western readers of Eastern philosophies often miss the "selfless" part and just use the teachings to be bigger egos....

I will meditate and practice and achieve great things!

Well help others?

Ummmm yea yea eventually I get this compassion stuff......

ok.......

It's really helpful to read many religions to get a better idea where they are all pointing.

Christianity teaches the selfless angle good.
Buddhism teaches awareness without mental phenomena good.

Love is natural outcome of all paths properly practiced and understood.


Very true - I find synchronicity across many spiritual traditions. Buddhism calls it compassion borne of knowing Dhamma (truth/wisdom), Christianity Love, Sufism Love, Neo-Advaita Love borne of Truth.

I also remind myself at times however that the only people we can [really] mind is ourself.

For example, how do you know you aren't the same as which you point out?

Same for janielee.

Some of us will never know even how to self-reflect, or have the opportunity to move out of ego-mind - even if that mind is filled with words of the Lankavatra Sutra.

The ones that irritate me the most are those that are full of low level knowledge and act as if they are masters, misleading others in the process, but on a deeper level I understand that we are all where we are meant to be, and can be - so even these people are just innocent in their own way.

Practice never really ends, Rain95, and if we don't believe that, I believe life shows us.

The Buddha taught for the cessation of dukkha - the truth of Nibbana. Those are my guiding lights and it has never proved untrue.

Blessings,

JL
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Old 19-03-2019, 01:31 PM
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With all due respect, 7Luminaries, Buddhism is a contemplative, meditative religion - it's not one where you come with your beliefs and theories first and overlay them.

It's one where you put aside your knowings and beliefs for the willingness to find the Truth of the Buddha for oneself.

Just saying,

JL


Janielee hello...I studied and practiced for many years. And I will always use mind in service to awakened heart. These are my insightful and reflective observations made from that perspective, and TBH I find comments such as yours to be not wholly conducive to a deeper discussion of these insights. But that's alright as we all are wherever we are.

Thanks again for your comments but if they don't resonate then to be honest I probably would have said nothing . You do you and I'll do me

Peace & blessings
7L
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Old 19-03-2019, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Rain95
Christianity has the "selfless" thing down pretty good. All truth in religion points to the same thing, but Western readers of Eastern philosophies often miss the "selfless" part and just use the teachings to be bigger egos....

I will meditate and practice and achieve great things!

Well help others?

Ummmm yea yea eventually I get this compassion stuff......

ok.......

It's really helpful to read many religions to get a better idea where they are all pointing.

Christianity teaches the selfless angle good.
Buddhism teaches awareness without mental phenomena good.

Love is natural outcome of all paths properly practiced and understood.

Rain, hello...Agreed full stop with all you say. Well said

Peace & blessings
7L
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