December 2011
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“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people....”
– Buddha (via nothingamazinghappenshere)
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“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would...”
– Buddha (via rheasquotebook)
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Student: So you're saying that there's nothing I can do to become enlightened?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: That's not common in spirituality where most of the time there is some kind of an underlying and subtle promise to get to this point of seeing through it all. Or is it more like my believing in such a teaching? But that's what teachings are normally all about, are they not? At least you're paying quite a few bucks for it, so they must contain at least some true aspects?
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Student: But you're just sitting there, without a word? How can this teaching do me any good? I mean at least I can sense, or so I guess, what you mean. That from the outside there won't be any help? That I'd have to look internally?
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Student: But that's really frustrating. For all the years of seeking, this should be the answer? Even outside spiritual circles, everybody is telling you the same thing: Look inside, all your answers lie inside yourself?
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Student: But I wanted to have bliss, and I thought that's the way to go, to be happy once and forever, and I had quite a few fantastic experiences. I wished them to return more frequently. But they seem to be gone. And I can't do anything to make those experiences happen again?
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Student: Is this not the saying: 'If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him'? What is to be killed then? Is it my thinking of being a spiritual somebody who's seeking for the truth? So you would not help me? I would have to do the inquiring all by myself? Well, but that's what I'm doing here right now anyway, is it not?
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Student: What might it be if I'd really let it in, this feeling that there's nothing I can do? It dawns on me that all I've been trying to spiritually evolve has been some sort of manipulation. Even this feeling of 'nothing I can do' could be manipulated into existence? Yes, I clearly see this. Even this could be manipulated. Wow. So maybe it's pretty much easier? Maybe it's simply to surrender to the truth, to totally surrender to that of which I feel must be the truth? That I simply don't know anything at all?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: I mean after all those years of thinking 'coming closer to enlightenment', now I'm realizing I've had no clue at all about what's going on. But can this be so simple? Just to let go of control? Just to surrender to the unknown? Just to let the 'not knowing' sink in and to realize that I really don't know anything at all and ever so?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: (no more words)
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“When the student is ready, the master appears”
– Buddhist Proverb (via connorgzm)
Merry Christmas
Happy holidays everyone.<3
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http://hellocupcakex.tumblr.com/post/14638290596/fo... →
hellocupcakex:
A CNN poll has established that Ron Paul is the “Most Popular Republican Amongst Non-Whites”.
So much for being racist, eh? Although the media continues to hype up a 15-20 year old story concerning decades old newsletters as a way to smear Ron Paul as a racist, the latest CNN poll shows…
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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy...”
– C.G. Jung (via thedistantbird)
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"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and...
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“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the...”
– Carl Jung (via ralexsparrow)
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“Your visions will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks...”
– Carl Jung (via humanflower)
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Dancing Dakini Wisdom: Forgiveness →
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Yesterday I went to a day course on forgiveness given by Gen Jampa at Kadampa Meditation Center - Texas. It was a really good talk and he gave everyone some practical advise that I’ll share here.
The first half of the course was on forgiving yourself. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy,…
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“The proper manner of calligraphy is nothing other than not being careless, but...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo (via justnotintheface)
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“Know that the body is a fragile jar, and make a castle of your mind.”
– The Dhammapada, Mind (via onebuddhistinmaine)
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“If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy...”
– Michael J. Tucker (via princesssimon)
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This is so incredibly true instead of trying to end abortion right now, they should be helping the...
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Hi! :) I was wondering why you decided to convert to Buddhism specifically? I’m sure you looked into Islam as well. And how did you feel about that? I’m sorry for this being incredibly vague. I was just curious. Also, it’s nice how you are very tolerant of other religions.
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