What you call "the experience of self" is in reality the experience of selflessness. We invent a "self" based on our certainty that there must be a permanent "I" behind all our experiences, because our language simply won't let us have an experience without something or someone to "experience it
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Thanks. That has kind of cheered me up, in a sense that there's someone else intellectual out there. It reminds me of all those thoughts I used to have when I was a kid.
Like a childanomniverseSeptember 24 2008, 02:05:20 UTC
Imagine walking towards a door of the world and walk out... For years you search, looking, hoping, trying so hard... then one day you hear a chatter from the room you left and had forgot about so long ago ... . . So you turn around, and there it is, what you had all along that you left behind ... . . than is Zen ... that is Buddhism.
A moment, a second, a breath ... everything else is just made up stuff in your head.
So sit, and meditate... and maybe you'll catch a glimpse :D
Re: Like a childanomniverseSeptember 24 2008, 07:00:55 UTC
Enlightenment seems to come, then it goes ... it's like that for everyone, I think, unless you're, well, an Enlightened Buddha. ^_^
wisdom = direct experience of the emptiness of it all
And it's wisdom that cuts through all the tough emotions and negativity in the world. When all is empty, the experience of hell itself and even fact that wisdom only sometimes shines through ... is enlightening.
Just keep in mind that it always leads back to this whole "self" thing. It's seems so comfortable to see things as "There is an I that experiences this or that"..... but really, our "self" is only a reflection of us cringing self-righteously in our comfortable, dark corners facing away from the light. The moment we just .. let go... it's like, ... wow! The world is quite nice when one is not so self-conscious! ^_^ And of course, being self-conscious requires so much ENERGY... so much energy being WASTED...for only suffering!! ....... not suffering is effortless; there's no enlightenments to "obtain", no "capabilities" to be had... only
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Re: Like a childmind_eclipseSeptember 26 2008, 17:40:52 UTC
There is a lot of depth to it to understand. I think I can get what you are writing about. I have noticed that a lot of people lately are trying to point me in the right direction, and I appreciate it. I think though, that wisdom also comes from understanding your personality, your emotions, experiences, and not necessarily is it all empty. But I get really tired easily and so I am just hard at grasping everything
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A moment, a second, a breath ... everything else is just made up stuff in your head.
So sit, and meditate... and maybe you'll catch a glimpse :D
http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/country.php?country_id=2
peeeeeace.
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I wish I had that capability. I have tried to grasp Zen and other relgions, even Christianity. It seems like it makes sense, then it doesn't.
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wisdom = direct experience of the emptiness of it all
And it's wisdom that cuts through all the tough emotions and negativity in the world. When all is empty, the experience of hell itself and even fact that wisdom only sometimes shines through ... is enlightening.
Just keep in mind that it always leads back to this whole "self" thing. It's seems so comfortable to see things as "There is an I that experiences this or that"..... but really, our "self" is only a reflection of us cringing self-righteously in our comfortable, dark corners facing away from the light. The moment we just .. let go... it's like, ... wow! The world is quite nice when one is not so self-conscious! ^_^ And of course, being self-conscious requires so much ENERGY... so much energy being WASTED...for only suffering!! ....... not suffering is effortless; there's no enlightenments to "obtain", no "capabilities" to be had... only ( ... )
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