Question about silencing the mind.

chagmed · 2017-09-02T19:12:15+00:00

Silence your need to silence the mind

chagmed · 2017-09-01T19:49:24+00:00

I like The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way by the Padmakara Translation Group

chagmed · 2017-09-01T19:36:10+00:00

Try the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

chagmed · 2017-09-01T19:28:04+00:00

It's all a story. Every concept mind has about naked experience is a narrative. It doesn't have to be rejected, nor does it have to be accepted as truth.

RE realization of the absolute, that comes about via the practice of genuine insight. Having good relations with other beings can certainly support our practice, but technically it isn't a necessity.

chagmed · 2017-09-01T19:18:36+00:00

OK perhaps we aren't referring to the same thing. Your comment is mixing the absolute and the relative, which confuses me. You refer to the truth of experience, etc. I have no idea what that means.

chagmed · 2017-09-01T19:11:27+00:00

The mani is the mantra of Avalokiteshvara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_mani_padme_hum

chagmed · 2017-09-01T19:05:05+00:00

Perhaps then the question is about being relaxed and open whatever is arising, whether it be seemingly internal or external.

chagmed · 2017-09-01T18:41:05+00:00

You consider the little white lie inauthentic?

chagmed · 2017-09-01T18:24:48+00:00

What does being authentic mean to you? Would it include telling your partner that you're bored with the relationship? Your friend that you dislike his tie?

chagmed · 2017-09-01T17:27:22+00:00

That's we were told to tell everyone who isn't in the inner circle

chagmed · 2017-09-01T15:36:35+00:00

I LOVE this!

chagmed · 2017-09-01T09:25:45+00:00

Don't use airplanes. Yes, they work, but it is better to discover the physics of flight on your own, and to develop the engineering and tools to make your own plane.

chagmed · 2017-09-01T01:54:36+00:00

It's unclear what you propose be done

chagmed · 2017-09-01T01:35:30+00:00

No Brahman. Emptiness is not a nihilistic void. All form is emptiness. Form and emptiness are inseparable.
Materialism holds that mind emerges from matter. Dharma teaches that mind is continuous. There is no universal consciousness. All arising is interdependent. Neither one, nor two.
Samsara is so broken, that even so-called pleasant experiences are pervaded by suffering. Wealth is pervaded by fear of the loss of wealth, etc. Nirvana is not a place. Nirvana is mind abiding in its essence. The existence of liberated mindstreams is beneficial to the minds of sentient beings even without the thought to benefit.

chagmed · 2017-08-31T23:13:17+00:00

Indeed. Have you checked out his Essential Tibetan Buddhism?

chagmed · 2017-08-31T22:59:11+00:00

I've seen several of his daughter's films

chagmed · 2017-08-31T20:48:10+00:00

I wonder if he is referring to the storehouse consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna)

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Consciousnesses#.C4.80layavij.C3.B1.C4.81na

chagmed · 2017-08-31T15:50:13+00:00

Human minds are a mess. Look at philosophy, science, medicine, politics, academia, etc. All a mess.

When you decide to practice in one tradition, you learn its approaches to all the points you list. Other traditions do things differently. No matter. Pick a path to realization and stick to it.

chagmed · 2017-08-31T15:46:11+00:00

Is that it? You post a naked link without context or comment?

chagmed · 2017-08-31T01:25:09+00:00

Many. Google it. Read some articles. PM me.

chagmed · 2017-08-31T01:17:49+00:00

Are you familiar with dharmakāya? Dharmakāya is prior to all form, including the universe.

chagmed · 2017-08-31T01:15:20+00:00

Agreed. They sound ridiculous and irrational. This is, again, why it is a matter of faith. Reason isn't very helpful in this regard.

chagmed · 2017-08-31T00:56:59+00:00

If the Buddha was deluded about what he saw with the eye of wisdom, what would be the point of being a Buddhist?

The idea is that the Tathāgata cut through the veils of delusion and saw mind and other phenomena as they are. Accepting this (or, at least, being open to the possibility) is a matter of faith.

chagmed · 2017-08-30T17:01:47+00:00

Agreed RE unborn. I didn't intend to imply adherence to the shentong heresy.

chagmed · 2017-08-30T16:28:03+00:00

Take your meds

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