PDU MX - REACT TO PEWS AND OBS
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psy The joy of giving does not fade like the joy of getting, new research reveals.
5 DAYS V 1 DAY HEDONIC ADAPTATION
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B Buddhism is pretty much about improving oneself.
There isn't supposed to be judgement, but you have to realise the errors yourself to fix them.
So it's more like, 'stealing is bad, so don't do it anymore' and not so 'you're a thief, evil person, shame on you'
And your own reflections should be more 'I did bad, but not anymore' and not 'I'm pathetic, I'm beyond saving'
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A human will take a bite of an apple. He won’t like it, and decide that apples are awful, that apples taste terrible, that apples are not fit to eat.
The human, the human mind, does not see a distinction between what something is, and how the mind feels about it, how the mind judges it, how the mind relates to it.
The mind sees no difference between “I don’t like it” and “it is not likable”. the mind sees no difference between “I find the taste of apples terrible” and “apples taste terrible” To the mind, that’s the same thing.
Because the mind sees no distinction between it’s own perception of reality and what the reality is, the mind believes that when it makes statements about reality, the reality becomes what the mind said it is, the mind believes that it actually creates reality. If a human says “apples are terrible”, the human mind has an experience of creating a reality where apples are terrible.
The mind believes it creates, the mind believes it is in charge, the mind believes that everything in life is ordered by the mind. Therefore the mind tries to control everything in life. The mind is constantly trying to create life.
But apples are what they are. Whether or not the mind can see that, regardless of what the mind thinks about apples, regardless of how the mind feels about apples - apples are what they are. Apples have their own existence that is fully independent from what humans think about them.
Realizing this is surrender. Realizing that there is a difference between “I don’t like it” and “it is not likable”, seeing that “it” is what it is, regardless of whether I like it or not, and accepting that fact, accepting that reality is, that “it” is, that apples are - this is surrender.
This surrender is a consequence of awareness. Being fully aware that apples are independently from my opinion of them, I can not help but accept that fact. This very act of awareness and acceptance is an act of surrendering control.
One can’t keep on trying to control something one can see clearly is not controllable. Awareness is clear seeing, surrender is the consequence of clear seeing.
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What exactly is meditation?
When you meditate, there are gaps between your thoughts and soon those gaps start becoming big. And one fine day you enter into the gap and it becomes a no-mind state permanently.
What yogis thinking?
When you meditate, you just become a watcher, you watch your thoughts.
Just what the title says. This family member has forgotten their name, their University degrees, their history, their favourite foods, everything that once made their ‘self’. They have no idea who I am, but the karmic connection is strong. They know they love me, they know we are somehow connected. We can’t fill time with idle chatter, it’s too confusing for them, so we just hold hands and feel the love. They know they’ve forgotten something but they can’t remember what they’ve forgotten. This experience has been a profound teaching of love, compassion, karmic connections, attachments, self and no-self.
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In 4 words, no metaphor, no quoting some mystic (except myself:-): Nothing appearing as Everything
In 4 words, again: Seeing through the illusion
In 2 words: What Is
In 1 word: Being
This is a mind-based question and mind cannot possibly comprehend any of the above. That is an absolute. So it makes us wonder Terry: Why ask this, why ‘10 words,’ and what will your illusory mind possibly do with the description? From anyone’s 10-or-less words posted for you here? Will it move you one iota closer to “your own” ‘enlightenment?’
In 10 words, or 100 words, Terry, could you describe what sugar tastes like? What water feels like? What ‘awareness’ is?
So it turns out the best 10 words or less to describe ‘enlightenment’ is 3 words:
Cannot be described!
But (I think) you knew that.
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In the upanishads it is said, “A weak cannot merge into Brahma.”
He is a weak who cannot be alone.
Crowds are always followed by someone who loves to be in the crowd and can't dare to find his individuality.
Spirituality is the path of lion and lioness.
One who dares to walk on the spiritual path has to become alone.
This aloneness will help you, this aloneness will make you understand about the importance of “aloneness.”
We all are alone and we understand this fact after embracing spirituality.
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- If your house smells like fish for absolutely no reason, 9 times out of 10 it means that there is an electrical fire.
- If you ever feel like someone is following your car take four right turns and eventually it will make a circle. If they are still behind you that means they are following you. Don’t drive home, just call the police and drive to the police station
- If a service dog ever approaches you without its owner, follow them and do it quickly because potentially you can save someone else’s life.
- If someone is trying to abduct you, fight back. Most abductors will just give up if they meet resistance. And whatever you do, don’t let them take you to another location.
- If the tide suddenly goes out unexpectedly, run like you stole it, for higher ground.
- If you’re ever charged by a moose, get behind a tree.. they have about a ten inch blind spot and they’ll lose you..
- When people say to take an aspirin to help during a heart attack, chew the pill, don't swallow it whole. It gets absorbed much quicker.
- If a person asks you for something in the street - a light, the time, whatever - always keep the person in your eyeline. So if they ask for the time, don't just look down at your watch. Raise your arm slightly so your watch is in sight.
- If you are in danger or in need of help, in a public place, it's almost always a bad idea to just yell "help". It's more important to be specific. Pointing at someone and telling them to call 911 will be more effective. The Bystander Effect can be cruel sometimes.
ārurukṣōrmunēryōgaṃ karma kāraṇamucyatē| yōgārūḍhasya tasyaiva śamaḥ kāraṇamucyatē||6.3|| For a seeker who wants to reach dhyānayōga, karmayōga is said to be the means. For those, who have reached dhyānayōga, renunciation is said to be the means.
How long should one follow karma yōga? karma yōga is not the ultimate discipline; karma yōga is only an intermediary step by which a person can attain jñāna yōgyatha prāptihi. Follow karma yōga, prepare the mind, then transcend or drop karma yōga - this is the message of verse 6.3 Meditation can never be the first stage of spirituality. Karma Yoga is a qualification for jñāna yōga or dhyāna yōga.
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Happiness is excitement in one direction. Sorrow is dejection in the opposite direction.
Peace is the middle point. It is neither happiness nor sorrow.
Both are agitations.
In peace, there is no agitation. In other words, when there is no agitation, we call it peace.
Now, what is mind ? It is not an organ, not an entity, not something tangible, not fixed, not a constant, and nowhere to be found.
If you notice this, it is really beautiful LOL.
Mind is agitation. Agitation is the mind.
When there is no agitation, there is no mind. And we call this peace.
So, saying, ‘mind is peaceful’ is wrong. Because mind is the deviation, the oscillation from the peace, the great balance.
Next time when you are peaceful, you can check it for yourself.
In peace, there is neither you nor the mind.
Only when the guitar string is agitated, you hear the music.
Only when there is agitation, ‘you and your mind’ manifest.
Peace is when the strings are not agitated, just pure silence.
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Sure, look around the room you’re in now.
You might see a table, but you know you don’t see it directly.
What you see is a visual sensation.
Similarly, you don’t touch a table.
You touch a hand that touches a table.
The “table” you touch is a tactile sensation.
You believe, without grounds, that the cause of these sensations is a self-existent table.
But the “table” you think is different from these sensations is nothing but these sensations.
There is no self-existent object behind our perception ‘of’ it.
Objects cannot be said to exist from their own side in ‘waking’ experience anymore than in dreams.
When you’re dreaming, the people and objects who populate your dream are your perception.
The same is true of your dream-body.
You can learn directed dreaming and make a nicer dream.
But this only ‘works’ because part of your mind is still fooled.
If you’ve ever had a lucid dream, you know there’s nothing more amazing than knowing you’re dreaming.
All these people and objects are your perception!
Now imagine realizing the waking state is a dream.
This time, there’s no “other reality” to wake up to.
Even when you die, you’ll enter another dream.
What is real?
You are, obviously.
Not your body - that changes.
It seems to get older in this dream, and sometimes you dream you’re a squirrel.
Not your thoughts, which come and go.
Your simple existence - “I Am” - is real.
The way to know reality is to turn your attention toward the ever-present reality, which is only “I Am.”
Reality is present everywhere, underneath all dreams.
Most people object that this seems really boring.
The answer is to just be and find out whether it’s boring or not.
By “just be,” I mean remain fully conscious but without mental activity.
When thoughts arise, turn your attention toward their source.
You will find this source is the spaciousness, or silence, of “I Am.”
You will thus realize you are not separate from the limitless and undifferentiated reality.
Who knows what it is but the silence is so eerily welcoming that everything is dropping by and nothing seems the way it was before
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Karma is like Iron which gets attracted towards Magnet of Destiny.
*A beautiful interpretation of Karma and Destiny.*
- There is an Idli/Dosa corner near my house run by a Sri Lankan Buddhist Pensioner.
- He is quite a chatty person, loves inoffensive humour and can talk endless long hours on any topic.
- While discussing the outcome of his Sons Job placement, we started debating on Karma and Destiny. I asked him does success comes with hard work or with Destiny/luck?
- Hearing the reply what he gave, all the traps in my mind were cleared.
- He asked me politely, do I own a Locker in the bank?
- I said yes, he said the key to the locker is the answer to your question, I stood there in displeasure, while he was busy tossing fritters in oil.
- He said, let me explain.
- Every locker has two keys. One you have and one with the Bank Manager.
- Consider the key you hold as ‘hard work/diligence’ and the key Bank Manager hold as ‘Destiny’.
- Unless both the keys are fitted properly, the Bank Locker cannot be opened.
- Here you are a hard-working man and the Bank manager is God.
- You should continue using your ‘key of hard work’. Someday God will put his ‘key of luck’ and BOOM.... that will be your day of success.
- Else, you give up on your ‘key of hard work’ and one fine day when God decides to use his key but unfortunately, your key is missing and sadly you miss on the big opportunity of success.
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The King called all his seven servants to his room to ask them a question;
“Do you see this apple upon my table - what is it all about?”, asked the King.
The first six servants took their turn to explain what the apple was all about;
“It’s a fruit.”
“It’s red, green and shiny.”
“It denotes health.”
“It portrays an inner natural beauty.”
“It explains gravity.”
“It’s just food.”
The first six servants were right in the relative sense but wrong in the absolute sense.
The seventh servant paused for a moment and said;
“You’ll get a different answer from everybody you ask. However, the awareness in which the apple is seen is identical from and separate to each person. This is not about the apple.”…
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Self-realization is a big step towards unveiling our divine nature.
We realize we have always been That and the idea of a separate self is let go of.
Babuji says we have to have “Freedom from freedom.”
It means, as long as even a concept of freedom exists, bondage is also there in a subtle way.
Keep diving into the inner sanctuary.
Permanently connecting to the endless ocean of divine love and grace will hopefully keep enticing our further mergence with the Divine.
Drowning in That. Becoming identical. This is essential.
Here everything will conclude and we will be a star shower of Love.
After this, what is left but to shine?
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