As a Buddhist, um... great advice, but not exactly something one can just "do"..... |
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Dear Friends, |
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As a Buddhist, um... great advice, but not exactly something one can just "do"..... |
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<span style="font-family:Georgia">"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to--do it! Want to change the world? There's nothing to it."
~Willy Wonka, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"
my dream journal
:::Completed both lucid tasks for the months of February and March:::</span>
Adopted: Kamikaze
Not according to Willy Wonka... |
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So true... |
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youre asking us to be enlightened, but you havent posted any recources showing us good meditation techniques ! >:/ |
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That is a good suggestion... I will write about it when i have the time. |
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Really, becoming enlightened could mean anything couldn't it?? I mean Budda and Muhammad both experienced 'enlightenment' and came up w/ 2 completely different theories. Besides that, there are thousands of religions and cults (or more) to choose from. A person could never know if they truly experienced enlightenment. |
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —George Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
From my personal understanding, enlightenment means that you suddenly have all of the knowledge and answers to everything. You finally feel at peace, you want for nothing. You no longer have questions about anything because it seems that you already have the answers. |
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<span style="font-family:Georgia">"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to--do it! Want to change the world? There's nothing to it."
~Willy Wonka, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"
my dream journal
:::Completed both lucid tasks for the months of February and March:::</span>
Adopted: Kamikaze
That doesn't always have to be the case. For every individual, enlightenment may differ. If one religious or philosophical viewpoint fits any given situation, an individual may regard that as the truth, but may choose a different mindset for a different situation. |
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[23:17:23] <+Kaniaz> "You think I want to look like Leo Volont? Don't you dare"
-100 points for bad grammar! (Can I have -150 points for being a pedant?! |
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Research: VAK (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic) Learning Modes, RCs and Lucid Dreaming
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When I say 'I see!' - I've opened not my eyes, but my mouth.
Not really. From an essay on Zen David Suzuki Wrote: |
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Mu! |
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Research: VAK (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic) Learning Modes, RCs and Lucid Dreaming
Research: Do Lucid Dreamers Have a Particular Personality Trait In Common?
When I say 'I see!' - I've opened not my eyes, but my mouth.
Yeah... If there was anyone who had all the answers, it seems like one of 2 things would happen: |
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —George Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
If I was enlightened I wouldn't help anyone, or I wouldn't care less about the world. I wouldn't try or eaven want to controll the world, because nothing would matter. I don't know what enlightenment would bring, but I kindof disagree with you. I guess it depends what kind of enligthenment we are talking about. |
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Not every person is like you. There are a lot of corrupt people in this world. |
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —George Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
Chaos - The kind of tyranny you describe seems unlikely as enlightenment is often described as the cessation of desire, where the illusion of self/other vanishes leaving compassion for all things. |
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Research: VAK (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic) Learning Modes, RCs and Lucid Dreaming
Research: Do Lucid Dreamers Have a Particular Personality Trait In Common?
When I say 'I see!' - I've opened not my eyes, but my mouth.
If you read the teachings of buddha, you'll understand better the answers to your questions. I'm not qualified to answer the why's, but I do know that there are supposedly like 16 people in the world who are supposed to be "enlightened". People who are able to be enlightened wouldn't be corrupt. To be enlightened means to have no desires. I'm not trying to argue about it at all. Even buddha himself preached NOT to just take his words as fact, but to go out and test them yourself, and if they don't work out the way he teaches it, don't do it. |
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<span style="font-family:Georgia">"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to--do it! Want to change the world? There's nothing to it."
~Willy Wonka, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"
my dream journal
:::Completed both lucid tasks for the months of February and March:::</span>
Adopted: Kamikaze
an enlightened alone can't change the world. but they would desire for others to be like them and if there were thousands of enlightened people together at the same time, a chain of events would happen that would change the world forever. sorta like how being with mean people puts you in a bad mood. a group of enlightened would put people in a better mood and slowly feed them into enlightenment. |
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You really don't understand what enlightnement is. I blame it on the word a better word would be awake. See Buddha was fully awake would be a better then Buddha was fully enlighten. |
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Xaqaria
The planet Earth exhibits all of these properties and therefore can be considered alive and its own single organism by the scientific definition.does the planet Earth reproduce, well no unless you count the moon.7. Reproduction: The ability to produce new organisms.
The 16 people thing was something that my therapist told me, so I'd have to find ask him (haven't seen him in a while). But I know that one person he was reading a book by him, and he describes what happens when a person dies as opposed to when say, an insect dies, etc. |
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<span style="font-family:Georgia">"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to--do it! Want to change the world? There's nothing to it."
~Willy Wonka, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"
my dream journal
:::Completed both lucid tasks for the months of February and March:::</span>
Adopted: Kamikaze
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Xaqaria
The planet Earth exhibits all of these properties and therefore can be considered alive and its own single organism by the scientific definition.does the planet Earth reproduce, well no unless you count the moon.7. Reproduction: The ability to produce new organisms.
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