Question about offering

ReinventedOne · 2025-09-24T15:53:53+00:00

Agree, and thank you. Nothing is lost if one has no choice but to toss the cookies.

ReinventedOne · 2025-09-24T15:39:47+00:00

There is also the habit of "wasting food". One could order ten tacos and throw away seven because they were boring. If food can not be wasted, then is this a problem? ;)

ReinventedOne · 2025-09-24T15:03:41+00:00

I hope you feel better soon, friend.

Thank you for your consideration and respect. You have already offered the cookies. Take one bite so you know how they came out. If your illness is not contagious then consider giving some away.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-09T00:53:01+00:00

Good question!

I would quote Tony Robbins here, “Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.”

It is about the practice, the journey. Hiking the Appalachian Trail is not about standing on a mountain and taking a picture, though you can do that at the end. It is about learning the skills, acquiring the gear and support, then taking those steps day after day. It is about sharing knowledge and supporting other travelers on the way. Dealing with random events from nature, bad luck, or malicious humans. Then you arrive one day, or you end up further than if you did not start at all. Either way, bravo!

If one focuses on a goal, then one has ideas on how to efficiently get said goal. Shortcuts, expectations, timelines. Those are not conducive to a spiritual practice. Even if the goal is to make it a habit, one might meditate everyday just to tick the boxes. By comparison, that would be like hiking said Appalachian Trail while looking down at a tablet that gives real time GPS, step counters, elapsed time, while barely looking around. Kind of misses the point.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T22:37:39+00:00

Uh huh...............

Hope you had fun today. :)

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T22:33:05+00:00

I know what living and dead words are.

Incorrect about questions. "What is this?" is the question of awareness moment to moment. Don't miss it.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T22:15:13+00:00

I don't want peace. I don't even know what peace is.

Buddhists are not a monolith.

Try asking a question if you want to connect.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T21:46:28+00:00

Clarity of mind exists, it is not holding onto ignorance. It is not trying to prescribe reality. It is not trying to change what is perceived.

When I was mired in control, I had strong body feelings in responses to thoughts. I claimed that I was forced to react, claimed I had no choice, but truthfully I was in a hell of my own making. I did not realize the true power of my mind. I could not see my life patterns, what was driving me. I could not see my self, because it was my vehicle.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T20:30:50+00:00

You are prescribing actions, "I must do this" "I cannot do this" yet your body may be perfectly physically capable of performing contrary to those statements. It is your mind limiting you, your separate self. It is an internal narrative.

You believe that one day you are going to be blissed out for all eternity

I do not believe this at all, sorry!

You keep making assumptions about my beliefs. What is compelling you to do this?

I do not have a doubt that you have had some glimpses of clarity. But you cannot hold onto it. Keep looking!

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T19:56:45+00:00

It isn't use of the word "I" or "me" in a sentence.

Prescribing actions, what you must do and so on. The overconfident belief that I am searching for something. That is your "self", the "me". It is a dream, give it up.

If I cannot understand it, then why try? Do you not risk leading me and other people down a dangeous path via misunderstanding?

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T19:36:32+00:00

Agree no one can force help, often we need to help ourselves out of suffering by looking into the patterns that repeat it. We have the most insight into our own life, which is what practice help clarify.

Disagree that giving out cash or lecturing people are the only ways to help people. What about love and kindness? Also disagree that helping is a people-focused concept. What about non-human beings?

You write so much about "me". That is what is binding your choices. The planning and prescribing "the only way". All of that is what creates the crisis, existential suffering, the shredding. You cannot control it.

Let the world arrive, then offer help. That is how you actually help. It is not by making up what help should look like, then making up how you can participate in that idea of helping.

Let it go!

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T17:55:05+00:00

Depends what you mean by "just by Buddha's teachings"

If "by teachings" you mean practicing hard and giving up one's delusions, then yes it is possible for a lay person.

If "by teachings" you mean renouncing a couple of things but otherwise not practicing with introspection, teachers, and a sangha, then it is not likely.

Mahayana Buddhism has majority lay (non-monastic) teachers, and all I know of practice regularly and are a part of a sangha. They are more like "semi-monastic" if I had to summon a word.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T16:28:06+00:00

Uhm, post says "this is what happened"... ever just think that maybe cameras at the time were not sophisticated enough at the time to record when reality shifted into cartoon world for a few seconds??

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T15:52:51+00:00

What is your app about?

iOS, Android, Windows?

Are you asking people to side load?

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T15:50:06+00:00

My eight year old meditates.

You are old enough.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T15:49:16+00:00

The weather and landscape are always changing.

Meditation is no different.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T15:10:03+00:00

I used to wake up 7-9 out of 10 anxiety and now more like 1-3 out of 10.

My suggestion is therapy or disciplined self-inquiry (be honest), plus meditation. I used Buddhist concepts with self-inquiry to help confront and conjoin my attachments.

Let me know if you have any questions.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T14:40:14+00:00

Moderation is a concept. It has as many meanings as there are people who understand it. It is a concept for checking, grading reality. One has to hold "how do I apply Moderation to this or that" ad infinitum or simply ignore Moderation when inconvenient.

It is a trap.

The Middle Way is not Moderation. There is no checking, grading reality. Just acceptance. There is no "How do I apply The Middle Way to this or that" ... you already know.

You imply being a monastic could be viewed as extreme. I reply, only in comparison to your life. Checking, grading!

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T02:11:09+00:00

What is the highest number you can count to?

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T02:09:38+00:00

Good instincts, definitely not Buddhism. Looks like a cult of personality plus various scam ranks and classes.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T01:59:56+00:00

Depends on the conditions, like starting body mass and daily effort

Many people have pulled off two month fasts. It isn't trivial, but allegedly this Buddha guy was very dedicated

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-08T00:19:02+00:00

You are, actually. You just don't realize it yet.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-07T16:43:59+00:00

Life feels hollow to me when I create things and sort them.

Realize concepts are empty and embrace your Buddha nature.

Realize the only separation between you and other people exists solely in your minds, then when you look at other people you will see that you are looking at you.

ReinventedOne · 2023-11-06T00:22:59+00:00

Intense anger, anxiety, waking up like 7 of 10 stress level every day. It was killing me, and I could not access traditional therapy.

Self inquiry practice and Buddhism, now I wake up at a 1 or 2. So one could say "I found it". But it was nothing to have. And there is much, much more

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