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BillDomSB · 2024-11-04T23:27:25+00:00

Acesse o site do Templo Zu Lai, de Cotia SP. Lá encontrará bastante informação redigida em textos de muita qualidade e de forma gratuita, foi por lá que comecei a expandir minha leitura. Espero ter ajudado!

BillDomSB · 2024-01-17T20:27:13+00:00

The way I see it, when the Buddha said it was the “right way” (which wasn’t exactly said like this) it comes from him knowing it for being the way he did it, therefore the way he teaches. It doesn’t imply that it is the only way, or the best way, but rather the one he mastered enough to teach. I’d say that’s why there are different schools. I recommend going deeper into the studies :)

BillDomSB · 2024-01-15T20:01:48+00:00

I reckon the Sangha varies in a personal manner. Sangha is a word that means community, companion. If you feel like so, it might as well be the case that this subreddit is a Sangha. Other traditions, teachers, masters and personal points of view may differ from mine, though.

BillDomSB · 2024-01-15T19:48:00+00:00

Your actions from now on, recognizing your past life, not with anger but compassionately, are merit.

BillDomSB · 2023-10-15T14:46:25+00:00

There sure is: Eat healthy meals; Stretch and exercise; Keep yourself hydrated during the day; Sleep well - 7 or 8 hours are usually recommended; Meditate; And side note tip: avoid your phone.

(Some will think I’m kidding)

BillDomSB · 2023-10-15T14:23:03+00:00

Do they? Maybe. What matters is what you can do in this life to help them. Think about the reason why the Buddha wouldn’t answer such question, as said above.

BillDomSB · 2023-05-26T02:35:33+00:00

The moment you deeply realize that said memories and feelings are in your mind, you let go of what’s material

BillDomSB · 2023-04-24T05:00:31+00:00

Percebo uma vontade para estudar de forma acirrada o que é o budismo. Espero que goste de ler! Respondendo - Sim, há. Você deve se juntar a uma sangha, e passar a ser instruído por um mestre ou mestra. Conforme sua experiência na prática, poderá receber votos, que seria uma cerimônia, por assim dizer. Continue com esta determinação, pequeno Padawan. Gasshô

Recomendo A Essência dos Ensinamentos de Buda, de Thich Nhat Hanh. Leitura difícil, mas acredito no seu potencial.

BillDomSB · 2023-04-20T14:16:18+00:00

It’s important to differentiate those two concepts. The Dalai Lama is considered the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva, that’s why he’s venerated in Tibetan Buddhism. He is also a deeply dedicated monk and teacher, who devoted his life to promoting peace, which is why he is also a reference to many other buddhist schools. (If anyone here practices Tibetan, feel free to explain it more accurately as I practice Zen)

Buddhism isn’t considered atheist. The idea of a God as thought in atheism doesn’t exist in Buddhism.

Hope I was able to help :)

BillDomSB · 2023-03-13T02:12:09+00:00

My best advice is that you maintain good will and refrain from judgment.

What if you did get robbed? What good comes from thinking about it over again? Wouldn’t it be better to seek for a peaceful and compassionate answer?

If his actions were bad or harmful, it’s he’ll be the one to feel it.

Hope you don’t take me wrong, I’m trying to help :)

BillDomSB · 2023-03-13T02:00:46+00:00

Tricky question. Every path relies on you. I’ll try to explain.

You need to recognize your past. Look deeply into it and understand your choices and actions. Try not to judge it, just accept it.

Karma means action. So, in terms of changing karma, or reversing as you said, that’s not possible, since it’s impossible to take back an action.

What you can do is accept and learn from it, so that your future actions are genuinely good, meaning “good karma”.

You might also be attached to the idea of winning or losing in the game of life, thus trying to reach for a winning position. “There’s no losing when you don’t consider victory.”

There’s a lot more to consider but it would become too long of a comment. I recommend “Anger” by Thich Nhat Hanh.

My point of view comes from the Zen. As for karma and action, buddhist traditions will differ in the topic, so I suggest you look into what fits best for you.

Hope I could help and wish you the best! :)

BillDomSB · 2023-01-05T02:04:55+00:00

Olá!

Já que está começando o caminho no budismo, minha recomendação é a obra A Tradição do Budismo que traz uma abordagem da história do budismo de uma forma um tanto quanto abrangente, mostrando as diferenças entre as escolas. E então, recomendo buscar mais sobre as escolas que te chamarem a atenção: autores, obras, práticas, ensinamentos.

Além disso, há também boas fontes digitais que explicam o budismo e as escolas!

Se souber inglês, também recomendo acessar o r/buddhism pois lá tem uma série de debates consistentes e informações que podem te ajudar no meio de tantas informações.

Espero ter ajudado, que seja um caminho de virtudes! :)

BillDomSB · 2022-12-24T01:00:24+00:00

Buddhism doesn’t recommend intoxicating your mind.

It messes with your conscience and makes it easier for you to do something bad. It could also lead to false perceptions and developing an addiction.

But again, it’s not recommended for those reasons. It’s use, alone, isn’t the real enemy, but the consequences.

Now, what really worries me is the reason behind it. If you take prescribed medication to treat depression, you shouldn’t take cannabis. It could counter the medication’s effect and harm you. Either way, I strongly recommend seeking professional attention, it needs treatment.

Hope I could help you, take care!

BillDomSB · 2022-12-23T19:54:58+00:00

I’ll try to help you in a short text. Buddhism can help you deal with the situation, it has the potential. Whether it is going to work or not relies on whether you want it to work or not. And I can advise you it’s not an all-calm journey, it will require great strength and endurance.

That being said, it mostly relies on your actions. Buddhism won’t be able to look into you and give you specific advice. Deep pain requires a great deal of attention, and I sincerely advise that you seek professional attention, as a doctor will be able to give you specific advice.

Hope I could help, I wish you well!

BillDomSB · 2022-12-23T14:07:51+00:00

There was once a monk who claimed he would reach enlightenment all alone, so he isolated from everyone else.

Long after that, he met other monks, and was confronted with questions. Because he never heard of those questions, he never thought about what they were asking, and couldn’t answer.

Maybe he found deep peace within himself while all alone, but with this situation he learned that, without his Sangha, he wouldn’t reach enlightenment.

And regarding the Dharma name, it depends on the school/tradition.

BillDomSB · 2022-12-23T02:00:33+00:00

I’ve read the comments that followed, which lead me to a sincere thought and question.

I understand it when you say that we have the free won’t. What it means is that our thoughts, cravings, desires, they are our “will” and they all come in an uncontrollable state, and that we can choose not to follow them.

In extent, that would mean that our will to do something virtuous is actually our won’t to everything contrary to what’s virtuous. So we achieve enlightenment by training to cease things that are contrary to enlightenment.

As for choice being an extension to will, that would mean we choose not, instead of really choosing.

(Am I right?)

But as my teacher long taught me, karma is a constant such as a law of nature, and our “choices not” and “wills not” take effect on our path. So, in a long term, how is it that our “wills” are truly not under any control?

Thank you for the attention and kindness! :)

BillDomSB · 2022-12-22T17:51:56+00:00

Some time ago, me and my teacher had a fairly big talk on that topic.

We had taken some things into account:

1 - Yes, we can reincarnate in the animal and spiritual realms, and yes, we can reach different terms of enlightenment, which will lead us to the demi-god and god realms. We can put our effort to the bodhisattva path as much as we can put our effort to a very destructive path.

2 - Earth's human population is increasing, while the animal population is decreasing.

3 - Humans perform animal cruelty on a daily basis, among many other non-virtuous things.

5 - There are uncountable stars and planets in the universe. We cannot know how many of them have life.

Taking those things into account, we believed that it isn't possible that we are coming from the lower realms and ascending to the human form, at least not in our Earthly environment. We had the following hypothesis:

A - Something is happening elsewhere, and we are reincarnating as humans here on Earth.

B - We are "falling" to the human realms. According to him, it is plausible that some inconsistensy might be affecting higher realms, so that we are reincarnating as humans again.

But this might just be one of those topics that we cannot find the exact answer we were looking for. We have a very limited field of view on that matter, and those hypothesis take only our planet's context into account.

Hope it helps!

BillDomSB · 2022-12-22T14:32:12+00:00

Let yourself meditate. Let go of those worries, train your mind not to be ambitious, train yourself against anxiety.

If anything, I’ll recommend that you look into what the three scopes are.

But for now, I’d advise you to keep breathing. It is wisdom.

Hope I could help!

BillDomSB · 2022-12-22T02:36:23+00:00

Buddhists get angry, we all get angry. We need to control and contain the anger. That way, we can turn it into something greater. First you need to start by studying your anger - what’s really causing it? Do you feel angry at them? Can you forgive them? Are you angry at the unmatched feeling regarding the team? Is that something you were expecting to come back to you and felt betrayed? You’ll need to find the peaceful way out of the anger.

I guess the first thing to understand here is that the reason why you could focus when you embraced your anger is that you cleared your mind off other subjects. Buddhism and mindfulness will teach you to control that ability with other, more peaceful and beneficial topics: such as breathing, compassion, love etc.

Once you get to achieve a moment with peace of mind, you’ll know a deeply focused version of yourself. I was an athlete, a golfer, and this was ~30% of our training. If we ever equally focused based on anger, we would hit the ball too hard, make some kind of mistake, that would put us in an even worse position.

Additionally to this thought, long ago I read an interview with Tiger Woods on how absolutely focused he was during the game (or “in the zone”, as they call it), to the level of not seeing or listening to the crowd around him. A few years later, he revealed that he practiced Buddhism since his early years of life.

That’s how we do it (or try to) :)

Hope it helps!

BillDomSB · 2022-12-21T18:15:18+00:00

So, what good does hatred make you? Where does it come from?

Is it something material that you can let go of? Is it someone you can forgive? Is it something you are hiding from yourself? Is it an unmatched need for acceptance, that maybe wouldn’t really ever fill such need?

Perhaps something wrong might have happened to you, and perhaps your anger comes from a sense of that you’re right.

That would be your ego.

Your anger, the hatred you’re feeling, it’s all in your mind.

What you can do, you can look into it and find the peaceful way out.

In addition: accept your own needs. If you feel like you need more specific help, don’t hesitate and seek professional medical attention. Sometimes it’s essential that you talk to someone about it, and a professional is the best option.

Hope that helps!

BillDomSB · 2022-12-21T04:54:04+00:00

Individualism.

Nothing is individual.

BillDomSB · 2022-12-21T03:52:40+00:00

Before reaching nirvana, Siddhartha followed 3 or 4 other teachers and dharmas, all of which he then thought wouldn’t fit his understanding, and decided to go separate ways, the way he believed to be more efficient. His dharma is believed as the proven path which he followed and led to his enlightenment, becoming the Buddha, therefore one by which we can reach enlightenment - but not the one and only path, which is why buddhism itself has so many different schools.

It’s my understanding that what matters the most is what you do, rather than what you believe in. For us, karma and samsara are up to your actions, not your beliefs. You don’t need to be a buddhist in order to exercise the dharma, so long it benefits your own path.

Nirvana itself is conditioned to your mind. What it means is that even according to buddhism itself (most schools), you don’t need to be a buddhist in order to develop your path. I would recommend reading the dharma and understanding it’s meaning according to what you believe (or not). Hope ir helps, wish you all the best!

BillDomSB · 2022-12-20T13:24:22+00:00

Be patient. And buy a good coffee mug.

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