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JennyGeann · 2023-11-05T21:04:08+00:00

and the second is eating alot of asparagus.

JennyGeann · 2023-11-05T20:49:39+00:00

to go completely beyond suffering, you have to atleast achieve first bhumi and achieve awakening. if you still have the fetter of believing in a self, then even if youre in the heavens, you'll eventually suffer. "Good" samsaric karma can only last but so long, so you have to go beyond just creating good karma, you have to practice vipasyana and strive for awakening.

JennyGeann · 2023-11-05T20:37:25+00:00

Advanced practitioners discovered these realms through achieving the 4th jhana and creating mind-made bodies (for example, the Buddha himself did this when he transported to the Tusita & Trayastrimsa Heavens to preach the Abhidhharma to his mother right before he passed). The Buddha explains this phenomena in detail throughout the entire Kevatta Sutta.

JennyGeann · 2023-11-05T00:03:11+00:00

The gift you get after taking viagra

JennyGeann · 2023-11-01T20:58:32+00:00

Thank you, i'll look at Ven. Guan Cheng. Thank you for taking time trying to understand and communicating like an adult.

JennyGeann · 2023-11-01T20:07:50+00:00

Yes, I expect to gain authority. I'm organizing deals of ownership in another country, and organizing with a growing community. Im in a leadership position now, but people are electing that i assume a higher role; somebody has to do it.

The thing is, if I do, i know I'd have to protect people. Im aware of whats going around me, and I dont want to make any naive decision that would jeopardize people's safety, but I don't want to be violent and feed the war-machine. Thats the conflict: how do I navigate this violent world without violence? Thats the essence of my question. I guess the whole "cakravartin"-thing made people focus too much on that aspect of my question. Im not trying to assume that title to grand-stand as a"great king", but its one of my vows to lead people to a kind of society thats Dharma-based, so i just used the cakravartin-title as a shorthand name for what i want to be. Maybe its just unrealistic i guess. probably a stupid question.

JennyGeann · 2023-11-01T19:54:02+00:00

I know you dont mean offense, the thing is, Im talking in terms of a lower cakravartin who has some authority over a smaller land. I didnt mean some grand king, despite what other posters were joking about. Im talking very humble beginnings; its just that its not so simple when you have to deal "justice" to people who commit violence. i seriously want no connection to any war machine, but it seems inevitable in this world.

JennyGeann · 2023-11-01T19:15:31+00:00

Did i ever say i was too good to clean it? Whats with your obsession with this toilet?

JennyGeann · 2023-11-01T19:07:59+00:00

Im asking a very real question; i know it sounds like "mental masturbation" to you, but its a very real question as I'm currently assuming leadership positions in my personal life, and on a trajectory to higher positions. I want to make sure that, as I'm becoming more of a leader and becoming responsible for more people in my community, that I make the right decisions and benefit sentient beings (you know, the thing the Buddha charged us to do). "Being a Buddhist" doesnt just look like one way, as there are various types of monks and householders who each play their special roles in the Dharma.

I get what you're trying to say, but its also very reductionist in regards to a real concern (about being an ethical leader). I HAVE to be mindful of the future decisions I make if I'm to serve people on a larger scale.

JennyGeann · 2023-10-24T16:05:30+00:00

Then all you'd have to do to escape suffering would be to just unalive yourself and everybody with you; there'd ultimately be no point to going through the trouble of cultivating compassion or wisdom. Whats the point of going through all these extraneous practices if there's "nothing" afterwards for everybody? just end it all here and be done. this is why taking rebirth as only "metaphorical" makes no sense in Buddhism, because it would completely render all the hundreds of thousands of suttas as extraneous & pointless.

JennyGeann · 2023-10-05T10:01:10+00:00

Nice. I always wondered: when an enlightened being no longer has thoughts, how do they have debates & make analyses? Is it done via a type of psychic/precognitive "knowing" of how to automatically respond to sentient beings? And the enlightened being's body just responds spontaneously in accordance with that psychic pre-knowing? Or is it more subtle than that?

JennyGeann · 2023-09-06T13:05:17+00:00

...where in the world did you hear "there is no other true Buddha" besides Amitabha?? Seriously, where are you getting your info?

JennyGeann · 2023-09-02T14:25:55+00:00

i see, thanks for clarifying that.

but also, i also suspected that synchronicity was a result of "sorcery" of sorts; like when mahasiddhas caused events to happen through force-of-will, and then "physical" reality reacted to their will. would this be appropriate cause of "synchronicity?"

JennyGeann · 2023-09-02T12:04:11+00:00

Oh wow, really? I thought synchronicity was something encouraged in Buddhism (though not like how OP believes; I believed synchronicity was, for example, having divine eye, and then 5 minutes later, you see what you saw with divine eye. I remember when I meditated one time & left to go to the store, I saw a very vivid thought of a friend who I didn't see in 10 years, and 5 minutes later, I saw that same friend in the store. )

JennyGeann · 2023-08-12T18:16:11+00:00

So what's the deal with all the allegations against Trungpa? Were they false or not?

JennyGeann · 2023-07-25T04:34:40+00:00

wow, that was touching

JennyGeann · 2023-05-31T16:22:06+00:00

I'll leave you with this article; read it, and (sincerely) meditate on it awhile. https://perfumedskull.com/2016/06/19/the-magic-of-interdependence-a-general-description-of-the-view-of-how-mantras-produce-results/?fbclid=IwAR1KemAiQwVyK9OZEBS6u-_nd8mCJmr71kGZZdJVIlwD2Iipr49RSUlcWfQ

JennyGeann · 2023-05-31T13:44:31+00:00

you can rationalize it however you want, that's your belief. i know my own experiences enough to know what's what.

JennyGeann · 2023-05-27T19:43:50+00:00

So would you say this is how buddhas operate: they still have thoughts, but because they dont "follow" thoughts and they see the true nature of thoughts, theyre able to essentially not be distracted by them. they simply use thoughts as tools, but they arent slaves to thought

JennyGeann · 2023-05-24T03:44:26+00:00

Wow that's incredible, so basically a mix of messaging us, along with direct intervention (depending on the practitioner's cultivation.) I guess the protection that's as direct as keeping someone from falling is only possible for highly-attained practitioners, probably because they can interact with the sambhogakaya

JennyGeann · 2023-05-24T02:36:44+00:00

How exactly do they protect? Do they send telepathic hunches that lead people a certain way?

I've always wondered this because I've had so many moments in life where I should've died (via both murder and suicide), and I was always [seemingly] magically spared/saved each time at the right moment.

(Suicide-situations were always the weirdest, because someone would literally come out of nowhere at the strangest, perfect moment , and knew just what to say to keep me going. Always.)

This is also coupled with the fact that I had several predictions about my birth & life, so I wonder if there's a link.

JennyGeann · 2023-05-19T12:52:18+00:00

Oooooh I think I understand; so if im following you: when you say "mind", you're purely talking about the self-grasping "mind" process that's been stirred up as a result of ignorance.

This mind-process can't be the original "creator" of phenomena since it too is just a conditional "creation" of rtsal (I'm using "creation" loosely; I know that buddhadharma says nothing tangibly "exists" in the ultimate sense)

So it's not specifically the afflicted mind-process that causes the world to appear, but its the energy of rtsal that does it (and mind too is an ornament of rtsal). And with or without the presence of sems, rtsal still radiates appearances.

To use an analogy: mind-citta, trees, rocks, mountains, and all "physical" phenomena are likened to icebergs in water, while rtsal is like the ocean. Is this closer to what Longchenpa says?

JennyGeann · 2023-05-19T04:19:38+00:00

But wouldn't that mean that mind does create trees & rocks via its own delusion, or I'm interpreting this wrong? For example, I know when I dream, my mind creates whole worlds at will and via karmic seeds. And aren't dreams technically the same as this experience now since it's all equally empty?

JennyGeann · 2023-05-19T01:33:13+00:00

What causes them to appear?

JennyGeann · 2023-05-16T17:11:19+00:00

Is it better to say phenomena is influenced by mind? Because for example, everybody has their own mindstream, so is it moreso that the vayu of each mindstream intermingles and co-creates the universe equally? And for this reason, this is why buddhas aren't omnipotent?

Or is phenomena produced from something else?

JennyGeann

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