TO PLACE OF DUST WTH NO MORE SUFFRNG

 TPOD- NMOS 

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RASHE LINE

PASCAL WGR, B GITA , BBL, HIM , ND LINE 

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DETACHED LIKE A STAR

At the end of the day, on the wings of your thoughts, go beyond the cares and troubles of the world. Remove your mind from everything and everyone, and become blissfully detached, like a star.

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 I feel moksha/liberation is given the upmost importance in Hinduism but not many people work for it.

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 As we say “take what works, discard what doesn’t, add what is uniquely your own”.

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b “Inconsequential to the path” is the best phrase that I have read so far. I’ve scrolled a bit and haven’t seen the analogy of the wounded soldier, so it’s worth rephrasing—

There was a soldier wounded in battle by a poison arrow. He was taken to a doctor, who asked him, “Was the arrow shot by a tall manor by a short man? Were the feathers on the arrow red or green? Did you see the person that shot the arrow?”

The whole debate about whether or not there is a God is like the physician’s questions. Clearly we are wounded like the soldier (we all suffer) and we need urgent care. From a Buddhist view, asking about whether there is a God, whose God is real, etc. is not at all relevant to the cure of treating of the disease that is suffering. It is at best useless and at worst a waste of precious, fleeting time.

The concept seems to be hard to grasp for many with a monotheistic worldview, but this analogy is the best way to explain it for me. Hope I paraphrased it correctly.

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b A god that we could conceptualize and “know” would be impermanent and dependent upon samsara for his actions and existence. Like- if god created man, then there was a time before man was created indicating that god changes and is restricted by time. A god with these characteristics is trapped in the same rounds of samsara as we are and to devote to him would be devotion to this material world

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poe Epicurus summed it up this way: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

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b A Buddhist monk once said to me something like "you will know the truth of things by their fruits."

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panentheism x neutral monism - Brahman, the universal self that is all of us.

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We know suffering because we exist as sentient beings. We stop suffering by putting an end to the arising of our sentience. The cause of our sentience is clinging to self-identity.

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The Torah lays it out btw. I put before you life and good, death and evil. Therefore choose life. It’s in our suffering we are open to spiritual growth.

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 reality is mystical, I agree, just not created.

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B Buddhism is a natural law religion, which does not believe in a creator but rather natural laws the guide and define life and existance

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B Brahma is the creator god of the the universe. But he cannot lead a person to Enlightenment. Check out the Brahmanimantanikasutta.

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