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 No.130754

I write this to those of you who are still on the Chaos wheel of endless acquisition. Some day, you'll get tired of the game. You'll see that the cycle is by definition incapable of scratching the deep itch that you need attended to.

When that day comes, I just ask you to consider that the Buddha has the technology to alleviate your deep-seated dissatisfaction.

Good luck out there, frens.

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 No.130755

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>>130754

>Some day

If time is illusion how changes are possible? Isn't Evola retarted attension whore?

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 No.130756

>>130755

In no sense is time an illusion in the Buddhist weltanschauung. Evola is not the end-all be-all of Buddhist thinking, of course, but I attached it just in case someone wanted a nice primer. It's a good enough introduction to some of the more esoteric aspects of the practice, and far better than much of the stuff being put out these days.

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 No.130775

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I'm willing to bet that OP has never read or been a part of a Buddhist community. He's probably another Tibetan weeb here to tell us that drawing mandalas and drinking butter tea are the path to enlightenment.

In my experience as a former Soto Zen practitioner and Zendo member, AND having gone through Jukai, I can firmly claim that ALL Eastern philosophy is rhetorical garbage designed to make you give up using your brain. They call this "dropping your ego", but it's really equal to becoming an apathetic cocksleave for society to fuck, but you'll be OK with it because you threw your brain away while staring at a wall for 4 hours within the Zendo.

Buddhism is for recovering drug addicts and hipsters, just like AA/NA and Christianity are for drinkers and trailer trash. Seek to learn, love, and protect your own.

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 No.130785

>>130775

Can confirm there's a lot of bullshit in Buddhism. Got to the point with my atiyogin guru where he confirmed that I was liberated and granted me full permission to give instruction as to the nature of liberation.

That itch, as OP said, can get scratched. However, once it's scratched… Mostly it just seems to be fun to get back on the wheel, so to speak. Sitting there endlessly for kalpas is basically a form of self-torture. Soto zen is especially notorious for this and so I tend to give more attention to Rinzai with its willingness to shock students into understanding instead of sitting there like some hokey new ager. A sincere student could as easily cave a bandit's skull in as sit there and spout platitudes.

So, you're blameless for wanting more than to throw your brain away at the wall. Maybe Bodhidharma, bara model as he was, liked posing like that, but it isn't for everyone, and the big secret of course is that meditation is more striving, and striving does nothing.

Until a student is ready to abandon Buddhism entirely, they are still not there.

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 No.130790

>>130785

>meditation is more striving, and striving does nothing

Could you elaborate? How is striving unproductive?

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 No.130817

>>130790

This is as it was taught to me, so please do not mistake this for my personal opinion! I do not count myself as a Buddhist and I am explaining the point of view of others; whether or not I agree or disagree is not the question.

Anyway, in Dzogchen, at least any Dzogchen that means it, striving for Buddhahood is seen as an act of delaying it, or rather, it is goal-oriented and thus still subject to karma. Rather than expect a student to actively do anything, including meditation (there is Dzogchen meditation but it is very much like zazen in that if you are trying, you are failing), the student is instead supposed to be introduced to the nature of the mind directly, that is, Dzogchen cuts the floor out from under all other vehicles to Buddhahood because they are goal-oriented and will never actually get anywhere because having a goal implies there is more work to be done and some future in which you have changed your fundamental nature. Since that fundamental nature is denied in Buddhism, Dzogchen seeks only to cause students to directly see–that is to say, intuit without conceptual elaboration–the mind as empty, void of any possible final single state, and in so doing, understand itself as a kind of enlightened meta-state.

In a nutshell, meditation as meditation can never in itself lead to Buddhahood because the very act implies that one is not yet a buddha, and that would make buddha-nature conditioned, which will not do. One must genuinely intuit it, and it is useless to try to fake it or to try to shortcut to it because that still assumes a desirable and conditioned end state. Besides, the goal is not to be thoughtless for longest, but to realize the nature of thought. In no way does this mean that meditation is without value, but it's a conditioned act that will lead to conditioned results.

Dzogchen seeks to basically cut the bullshit and the sitting around for ten zillion kalpas by saying "Here's the nature of the mind, here's spaciousness, here's rigpa, do you get it yet?" at which point the students all more or less short-circuit. It can be an extreme brain-bender and I won't lie, I saw some students who were on the verge of tossing their sanity down the toilet. To come out the other side supposedly enlightened has been itself very enlightening.

My advice as a confirmed Buddha? If you're a native English speaker, skip the lessons on Tibetan (easily one of the ugliest languages on Earth to read it you're an English speaker, I mean some of it is just like, how did anyone find it aesthetically pleasing ever?), if you can click with Discordianism then you'll save yourself the headache of translation. If not, honestly, whatever. The less you worry about Buddhism, the better.

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 No.130862

>>130775

Hey don't knock all Eastern philosophy.

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 No.130885

This thread is so awful I don't know where to start. Many of you are so far off-base that it wouldn't be worth the effort it would take to unfuck your views.

Mandala painting helps with deity yoga. Deity yoga is practiced to improve visualization so that you can overlay the dreamworld and the physical world to become master of both worlds which is Buddha. You posses the seed of Buddhahood but until you realize you are dreaming even in your dreams at night at all times, you are not fully enlightened. If any of this is news to you, like you >>130775, I suggest you shit the fuck up because you're only continuing the same negative habits of ignorance, arrogance, and somehow thinking you have the right to teach that of which you have no mastery or even serious experience.

>Hurr durr I practiced Zen and nothing happened, let me tell you how much smarter I am than Buddha, a man who saw past lives so deeply he mapped out the entire spiritual path from start to finish

You dumb fuck.

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 No.130889

>>130885

Your view of the Buddha as having attained a fixed end state of mastery over causal worlds is not correct. Buddha is awakened as to the nature of the mind and phenomena, undeceived by appearances or forms, attached to neither their arising or non-arising. Mastery as a kind of lordship doesn't really come into play.

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 No.130892

>>130885

>saw past lives so deeply he mapped out the entire spiritual path from start to finish

I thought one of the differences between Hinduism and Buddhism is that in the latter there is no immortal self reincarnating endlessly.

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 No.130897

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Suggestions for excelling as a student no matter which spiritual traditions you study under:

1. Always assume that whatever you know is incomplete. Assume that there is always a higher understanding. Even if you become a teacher, also remain a student, forever.

2. If you meet someone who seems to understand better than you, humbly ask them to teach. Keep asking until THEY tell YOU that you understand. Don't try to tell them that you understand them fully until they say you do.

3. No matter how good your teacher is the real teaching must come from within you. At very high (or even low) levels of practice you may find your teacher testing you with false information. If he can trick you, you deserve it, because it means you are not developing inner awareness and are unworthy of higher teachings. Everything you say to your teacher, you are silently being tested on, but spill your heart to them and hold nothing back so that they can see you for who you really are and identify weak points to strengthen within you. If you cannot trust your teacher with this level of intimacy, find a new teacher.

4. Never assume that because one teacher says you are enlightened, or gives you a title, that you're done realizing things. What is the end of the path in some schools is the halfway point in others.

5. If reality did not disappear, and if you cannot describe what comes after reality disappears, YOU ARE NOT EVEN HALFWAY! Keep going!

6. However humble you think you are, it is not enough. However much pride and arrogance you can cast aside, it is not enough. Right now you may be thinking "I am not very prideful or arrogant". That very thought is enough pride and arrogance to destroy you. You HAVE to be humble. That which created you sees through your eyes, and you cannot hide from it because it is fundamentally part of you. You cannot bluff it or deceive it in the slightest. You can only befriend it.

7. Make sincere effort as much as possible. When you quit, do not burn any bridges. You may often find that after quitting you strengthen your understanding. Things work in cycles and what departs today often returns tomorrow, slightly changed.

8. If you succeed at eliminating your ego you will die.

YOU.

WILL.

DIE.

If you are afraid of death you're going to fuck up the process. You have to accept your death, realize that the dreamlike images that appear at and after the time of death (which are usually disturbing or violent) are no more than a projection of your own mind, accept them, and let go of them. You can find a more detailed description of this in one of the latter chapters of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, available here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=093BD502D561B73DDFE61435A4C48C8A and I've included a video that touches upon it. DO NOT GO INTO EGO-DEATH UNTIL YOU CAN REALIZE THAT IT'S ALL A DREAM. Do not run from or towards any death visions, ignore them and chant that it's a projection of your own mind. Identify everything that appears, no matter how frightening or wonderful, as an aspect of yourself, emotionlessly.

9. During the death process don't go into the white light unless you want to come here again. The white light is rebirth into this world. THE BLUE LIGHT IS FREEDOM. If you are taking the bodhisattva path, the path of one who returns to teach and assist other beings, then choose the white light.

10. This shamanic death and rebirth experience is not even halfway. Until you go inside yourself and find emptiness you are not even halfway done. If you have not realized the void, experienced the absolute, you are not even halfway. Getting to that point is halfway. Figuring out what to do once you get there is the beginning of the real path. To help you out I'll tell you that what you need to do there is Tummo (inner fire) meditation, so be adept at it before you go.

11. RELAX. Always. Chill the fuck out when you have a breakthrough. You are not the savior of the universe, that is not your job. Your only job is to chill out and help once you know the truth, and if that doesn't appeal to you you're welcome to just chill and live like The Dude from Lebowski. Or Winnie-the-Pooh. Just flow along with it and let it take you where you need to go.

12. Get your ego out of the way so the blessings can get to you. Meditation is essential.

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 No.130898

If you are an esoteric Buddhist student I strongly suggest you read Secret Teachings of All Ages, which is a very short enjoyable read detailing the understanding of many non-Buddhist western schools. I avoided this book due to the reputation of the author and regret that I did so. Many of the things that Buddhist teachers traditionally keep very secret are described eloquently herein. In general, while it is best to have a single teacher and a single practice, it is not essential to only know the teachings of one path, since all esoteric schools are merely maps to the same territory, and some maps have much more detail, much more efficient methods, than others. What is secret in one tradition may be public knowledge in another.

If you want the secret teachings of Buddhism I suggest watching Garchen Rinpoche's empowerments on YouTube. They are in Tibetan but he speaks many things that are traditionally kept secret plainly. Some videos have more useful information than others. He has created a big controversy by doing this but in the meantime it will allow you to have firsthand knowledge of things I'm otherwise not allowed to teach you. Most of the stuff we can't say publicly involves things that wouldn't help you anyway, they are intense methods of visualization that only someone with a mind trained to concentrate for hours at a time could even have a chance at success.

In general Tibetans have turned over all the teachings they could to the west in a last ditch effort to preserve the tradition. Although many people, having very small minds with very low consciousness, view esotericism as a divided house, with all of our schools belonging to different ethnicities, cultures, schools, really we are all brothers and sisters of the same physical, spiritual, and absolute realities. We are the travellers of the worlds of form and beyond, preserving the ways handed down by our forefathers to our children, and the entire world, all creatures in all creations, are our children and our parents. Unless we are shut ins who never wish to grow, there is ultimately one path that is rewarding, compassion. It doesn't matter if you practice compassion as a student of Plato, a student of Aristotle, a student of Hermes, Shiva, Christ, Buddha… those who Know are knowers of their heart and mind, masters of their thoughts, actions and emotions. If a being becomes master of their worlds it doesn't matter whether we call the resulting being a Heirophant, a Christ or a Buddha. Titles and names do not matter. Getting your ass to that point by practicing appropriately is what matters.

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 No.130899

File: e29e21f23a89e54⋯.pdf (3.35 MB,Secret Teachings of All Ag….pdf)

Here's a pdf copy of Secret Teachings of All Ages.

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 No.130900

>>130897

>Don't stop even if you get confirmed

Correct.

>If reality did not disappear, you are not even halfway

Not correct. A life-death-rebirth initiation, common to every esoteric tradition, does not involve the dissolution of reality, whatever one may feel as the dissolution of reality.

>Don't go into ego death until you realize it's all a dream

Initiation experiences should reveal the ego as delusory.

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 No.130902

>>130898

>yadayadayadayada

Why do you Buddhists love the sound of your own voice so much?

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 No.130904

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Confessing that we are proud is the first step towards humility.

Confessing that we are ignorant is the first step towards knowledge.

Confessing that we are immature is the first step towards maturity.

Confessing that we are foolish is the first step towards wisdom.

No matter where we are, until we reach perfection, which is unattainable (yet must be attained), we are imperfect, and if we fail to realize the depths of our own ignorance we will not be humble enough to realize the depths of much else.

Emptying out our false assumptions in this way is the first step towards so-called higher truth, which is the emptying out of all falsehoods, and if constantly cultivated eventually returns us to the fundamental reality of which this world is but a fleeting illusion within illusion within illusion, dream within dream within dream.

Who is the dreamer? The dream. What is the dream? Dreams are nothing but ephemeral fleeting visualizations overlayed upon the void we experience when we close our eyes at night. So really I exist as no more than an illusory production of your imagination, and you exist as no more than an illusory production of mine. For everything in all realms that have form, it is this way. Yet how sublime, how wonderful, to exist in this way and become aware of it! Awareness experienced like this is the blessing of life, always tempered by the knife edge of awareness that our experience of physical existence is temporary.

Every esoteric path, from Hermeticism, Alchemy, Buddhism, Gnosticism etc. is ultimately a symbolic system to teach people the same mysteries. The names and perspectives change but the underlying experience is the same. But attempting to understand all this without proper guidance people often end up in self-created false realities (astral travel is an example of this, and DMT/LSD visions can be as well, especially the untrained) from which they inevitably fall from grace and resume suffering. Any DMT vision that includes other beings is a false reality, although these visions can be used as a stepping stone by the trained to experience absolute reality. Heaven for people like that can be a trap; it's endless and blissful but contains none of the other pleasures of the flesh, so people who do not meditate well may not enjoy the monotony and be enticed by desire back into the suffering of a form.

For these reasons we need a teacher to explain the correct way of viewing all this to us, as many of the things we will need to realize are extremely subtle and nuanced. People who call themselves natural philosophers, who do not accept any teachers, tend to be arrogant and create ego traps for themselves from which they do not recognize the need to escape. But even the best teacher cannot describe ultimate truth; they can lead us right up to it, but words cannot ever do it justice. We must experience it for ourselves before we can have any degree of true realization.

When we speak of "real truth", "higher truth", "true understanding" and things like this we mean something far more fundamental than the conventional definition of truth. Conventional truth is often described as "worldly". Worldly truth comes with falsehood, as the mental concept of truth is dependent upon the mental concept of falsehood existing for it's own existence. This may sound like complete nonsense at first, but it actually has to be like this in our so-called physical world.

Anything which is brought into existence as a form (and even thoughts and emotions are considered mentally created forms) has an opposite: right implies a left, up implies a down, light implies a shadow. Without a down you wouldn't call anything an up, it would just "be" and you wouldn't label it. Living without labels, without judgments, is living beyond duality, and living, thinking, beyond duality, thinking with a united rather than divided mind, is the next hypothetical step in the evolution of mind.

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 No.130905

This does not mean always living without any discrimination. We must discriminate between healthy and non-healthy, appropriate and non-appropriate, so that we and our children grow up knowing how to thrive, but in order to ensure we are seeing things objectively it is also useful to train our minds to think from all perspectives without bias in order to select the most beneficial.

So getting back to the point, in the same way that the concept of a left can't exist without the concept of a right, without a concept of truth there can be none of it's opposite, which is a concept of falsehood. This is a key point of Zen, and it is essential to understand in order to have even a limited intellectual understanding of so-called enlightenment. When we do not attempt to communicate we cannot create falsehoods or misunderstandings. So falsehoods and misunderstandings are at best an unintended byproduct of, and at worst a deliberate inversion of, the quest for an understanding of real truth or higher truth, which we here define as "truth beyond the human mind's ability to define it".

This is part of why Zen monks only bow or move slightly instead of speaking when asked questions, or speak of the physical when asked about the spiritual and the spiritual when asked about the physical. They are answering in this way to call your attention to the concept of dualistic opposites and showing you the doorway beyond suffering which results from freeing ourselves of such concepts. In the East trying to explain Zen with words marks me as an idiot of the highest caliber, but as Westerners your minds have been trained to understand before you accept, so I must attempt to build a bridge halfway across so that more of you can make the leap!

So what we call real truth is actually beyond "truth" and "non-truth". It is what existed before truth and non-truth or any other dualistic frameworks were conceptualized within the mind. It is before thought, which is why meditation, which gradually quiets our minds, can bring us to a state of absolute truth that simply cannot be conveyed in words. We call that unformed state of real truth the "absolute reality", or "God", "the creator", "the source", "Buddha mind", "no mind", "emptiness", "nothingness", "where there is no self or other", etc. and we call this dreamlike physical world we pretend to exist within "relative" reality because things here appear to exist in relation to each other. Within the absolute there is no dualism, no thought, no emotion: those things can only be experienced, can only even pretend to exist or be contemplated of, within our illusory relative minds here in this illusory relative world.

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 No.130906

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To be a fully evolved human as far as humanity has experienced it so far means to have one foot in this reality and another in the world we experience when we dream at night. We combine the nighttime dreamworld and this dreamlike daytime world, we overlay them mentally in the same way you experience daydreams, creating a single never-ending lucid dream. We learn to control our dreams until we are neither fully dreaming nor fully awake. This is true final enlightenment, at least within a human body. This is the archetypal "god-man" or savior, but instead of saving others directly we teach them to save themselves.

After our mind retreats from our body whether at death, during meditation, or during sleep, we briefly let go of all thought and return to the unformed void from which all pseudo-realities spiral, the place all dreams originate from, which we never actually see from without because we're it: the unformed void is all of our true nature. You cannot see it because it is your eyes. You cannot hear it because it is your ears. You cannot smell it because it is your nose. You may smell the sweat on your nose, but not your nose's sensory components themselves. Fire does not burn itself because it is already the fire, water cannot wet itself because it is already the water, and in just the same way we cannot physically experience our true nature because our true nature is neither physical nor non-physical, we must let go of dualistic thinking about physical and non-physical and even the concept of experiencing and not-experiencing in order to experience our real nature.

But mind cannot easily be ordered to unmake itself, so a beginner doing this intentionally is, at least for most, quite impossible! Only by letting go into meditation and strengthening our contemplation and visualization do we have any chance of lasting success. Once we have better grasp of our mind we can use the mind as a tool to control which level of reality we experience at any moment. That is an example of real mastery! For such a person, performing "miracles" is trivial, no more difficult than controlling your arms or moving your legs is for you now. These things are not supernatural, just so rare to find awakened within a living being that we consider it supernatural.

Getting to that level of inner realization while conscious and still within a physical body makes our own mind the "philosopher's stone", the "wish-fulfilling jewel", which converts all negative percieved experience into eternal/timeless wisdom and bliss, and we become the immortal teacher reborn in both the spirit and the flesh, the true baptism, although most choose not to teach once they get to that point because people are notoriously difficult to teach (at least a third of them can't reach enlightenment in this life no matter what they do, they just aren't ready, even Buddha couldn't enlighten everyone, Christ couldn't get all men to listen to him, etc) and there is no obligation to attempt to teach anyone anything since the truth is already hidden within each of us like a seed waiting to sprout, grow, and blossom. All we can do is inspire those who have not begun to try to start the process of finding it. It's really up to each of us to do the work and reap the benefits, or submit to our laziness and inertia and keep complaining that our illusory outer world is going to hell while doing nothing to improve the much more painful hell within us.

Without meditation, contemplation, and visualization all the intellectual philosophy in the world is sort of wasted, as even the concepts of enlightened and non-enlightened are dualistic bullshit. All the complexities of all the heart/mind/universe's experiences and forms are no more than an illusory speck of dust borne by a phantom wind, fading quickly back into the void from which it arose. Humble yourself to realize everything you have the potential to be! The stars are not the limit, your own mind is the limit!

>>130902

Projection, if I dig Iin the mud with a shovel it is not because of love for the shovel but respect for the skillful empty form of the tool, and there is nothing for me to deny love of.

>>130900

I said nothing of initiatons. You either master "death" while alive or you don't, but do it before your egoic worldly body dies. I'm not here to speak as a super secret insider fag, I hate the secret bullshit. I'm here as a faggot who realized that simply paying attention and reading made all the difference. I'm not recreating Prometheus, I'll take a different myth, thanks!

Death experiences are always not the same as emptiness. Without seeing that all is empty it is not a full realization. The monad is not a metaphor. Even seeing that firsthand, you are not even halfway! Keep going! Keep going!

And for fucks sake, treat each other nicer.

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 No.130913

>>130892

The premise of Buddhism is that there is endless reincarnation as in Hinduism. To early Buddhists even moreso than today, the goal is explicitly to be removed from the cycle of reincarnation and to be free from karma which keeps one bound to the rebirth cycle. It's precisely the same problem as Hinduism in that sense.

There is one critical difference between Hinduism and Buddhism you need to know, that being, Hinduism posits an ontological nondualism and Buddhism posits an epistemological nondualism. To Hindus, there is an ultimate root nature that can be found and unionized with, there is Atman and it is not other than Brahman. To Buddhists, there is no self, Anatman, though the appearance of self arises through dependent origination. It is precisely this undercutting of any kind of root nature which distinguishes Buddhism in its own right.

You will see Hindus certain that they have reached exactly the same state as Buddhists, but very high level Buddhists don't ever make the same claim in reverse. Generally, Hindus are thrown off by Buddhist use of the same Sanskrit terms as Hindus, but to mean subtly different things building to one final opposite conclusion that Hindus tend not to really grasp. Most often, switching from ontological nondualism to epistemological nondualism requires a rather serious crisis internally as the brain struggles to overcome its attachment to is/isn't dual logic in this matter. It's important to get Nagarjuna's material in front of people in that process, so they don't unnecessarily throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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 No.130925

A Buddhist is a being with great attachment to Buddhism.

I've never met any Buddhists.

I've never seen any Buddhism.

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 No.130926

>>130906

>>130905

>>130904

Perhaps one day you'll stop contradicting your own points and say something true–probably accidentally, if this track record is to be believed–but today is not that day.

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 No.130927

>>130906

Also, posting the fucking Tao of Pooh? Really?

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 No.130933

>>130927

lol triggered

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 No.130935

>>130933

Well I must admit, yeah, you got me with that one alright. Clever move posting a shit book, anon! Not what I expected, points to you for that.

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 No.130994

File: eecbbe826574243⋯.jpg (266.82 KB,480x630,16:21,shankaracharya_new.jpg)

Advaita Vedanta > Buddhsm tbh

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 No.131000

>>130935

It’s a great introduction. It served me when I was a newbie. What’s the problem with him posting it btw?

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 No.131002

File: ab41f8e6658ce2c⋯.pdf (954.32 KB,Zen Teachings of Rinzai-Sh….pdf)

What a lovely little discussion.

A monk asked Zen master Rinzai:

"What is the essence of Buddhism?"

The master let out a shout.

The monk bowed.

The master said: "This one can hold his own in debate."

Another monk asked:

"What is the essence of Buddhism?"

The master raised his fly-whisk.

The monk let out a shout.

The master also let out a shout.

The monk hesitated.

The master hit him.

At the High Seat, a monk asked:

"What is the essence of Buddhism?"

The master raised his fly-whisk again.

The monk let out a shout.

The master hit him.

A monk asked: "What about the edge of the sword?"

The master cried out: "Dangerous, dangerous!"

The monk hesitated.

The master hit him.

Another monk asked:

"Master, from whom is the song you sing? Where does your style come from?"

The master said:

"When I was with my teacher, I questioned him three times, and three times was beaten."

The monk hesitated.

The master gave a shout, then hit him and said:

"One cannot drive a nail into empty space."

The master then said:

"Monks, some do not shirk losing body and life for the Dharma. As for me, I spent twenty years with my late teacher. Three times I asked him on the essence of Buddhism, and three times he kindly beat me. It was as if he had caressed me with a branch of fragrant sage. Now I feel like tasting a sound beating again; who can give it to me?"

A monk stepped forward and said,

"I can."

The master took up his stick and handed it to him.

The monk hesitated to take hold of it.

The master hit him.

The master said:

Today's students of the absolute truth need to look for genuine insight. If you have genuine insight, birth and death will not affect you, and you will be free to come and to go. Nor do you need to look for worthiness; it will arise of itself.

Followers of the way, the old masters had ways of making men. Do not let yourselves be deluded by anyone; this is all I teach. If you want to make use of genuine insight, then use it RIGHT NOW without delay or doubt.

But students nowadays do not succeed because they suffer from lack of self-reliance. Because of this lack, you run busily hither and thither, are driven around by circumstance and kept whirling by the ten thousand things.

You cannot find deliverance thus. But if you can stop your heart from its ceaseless running after phantom desires of the will, you will not be different from the Buddha and founders of the sacred teachings.

Do you want to know the Buddha? None other than he who here in your presence is now reading this Dharma teaching. Just because you lack self-reliance, you turn to the outside and run about seeking.

Even if you find something there, it is only words and letters and never the living spirit of the founders of the teachings. Do not be deceived. Venerable Zen students, if you do not meet your own Buddha Nature at this very moment, you will circulate in the three worlds for ten thousand eons and a thousand births. And, by pursuing agreeable worldly situations, you will be reborn in the wombs of asses and cows.

Followers of the Way, as I see it, YOU are not different from the Buddha!

Today in your manifold activities, what is it that you lack? The flow of the six senses never ceases. Who can see it like that is, for all his life, a man who has nothing further to seek.

Venerable Ones, there is no place of rest in the three worlds; it is like a house on fire. This is not a place for you to stay long. The murderous demon of impermanence strikes in a single instant, without choosing between high and low, old and young.

Do you wish to be no different from the Buddhas and founders of the teachings? Then just do not look for ANYTHING outside.

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 No.131003

File: 5dcbec2503e6c0c⋯.pdf (6.55 MB,Dōgen's manuals of Zen me….pdf)

The pure light of your heart at this instant is the absolute Buddha (Dharmakaya/beyond form and non-form) in your own house. The non-differentiating light of your heart at this instant is the spirit manifestation of Buddha (Sambogakaya/formless) in your own house. The non-discriminating light of your own heart at this instant is the physical manifestation of Buddha (Nirmanakaya/form) in your own house.

This trinity of the Buddha's body is none other than he here behind your eyes, reading this expounding of the Dharma. You can come to this seeing only by not running and searching outside!

The scholars take the lesson of the three forms of God/Buddha as a concrete reality. As I see it, this is not so. These three bodies/forms are merely names, or props. An old master said: "The three forms/bodies are set up with reference to meaning; the and their respective fields are distinguished with reference to substance." However, understood clearly, all these are only mental configurations.

Venerable Ones, get to know the one who plays with these configurations. He is the original source of all the Buddhas. Knowing him, wherever you are is home. Your physical body, formed by the four elements, cannot understand the Dharma you are listening to; nor can your spleen, stomach, liver or gall; nor can the empty space.

Who then can understand the Dharma and can listen to it? The one here behind your very eyes, brilliantly clear and shining without any form — there he is who can understand the Dharma you are listening to.

If you can really grasp this, you are not different from the Buddhas and founders of the teachings.

Ceaselessly he is right here, conspicuously present. But when passions arise, wisdom is disrupted; and the body separates from the changing pictures. This is the cause of transmigration/rebirth in the Three Worlds with its resultant suffering. But as I see it, there is nothing that is not profound, nothing that is not deliverance.

Followers of the way, this truth of the heart has no form and pervades in all directions. In the eye, it is called seeing; in the ear, hearing; in the nose, smelling; in the mouth, talking; in the hands, grasping; in the feet, walking. Fundamentally, it is one light; differentiated, it becomes the six senses.

When one's whole heart and mind comes to a full stop, one is delivered where one stands.

Why do I speak so plainly? It is only because I see you, followers of the way, all running about with an agitated heart, quite unable to stop, fretting yourselves over the playthings of the old masters. Followers of the way, as I see it, once and for all sit down and cut off the heads — both of the non-absolute spirit Buddha and of the physical Buddha of your conceptualizations. Those satisfied with merely completing the ten stages of the Bodhisattva are like serfs. Those content with universal and profound awakening are but fellows carrying manacles and chains. Arhats and Buddhas who reach only self-liberation are like cesspits. The concepts of Awakening and Nirvana are like hitching posts for donkeys.

And why is this so? Because, followers of the way, you fail to conceive the emptiness of three great world ages; this is the obstacle that blocks you.

Not so the true man of the way who goes with the concurrent causes to wipe out his old karma and lets things follow their own course. He dresses himself as is fitting; when he wants to go, he goes; when he wants to stay, he stays. Not even for the fraction of a moment does he aspire to psychic powers, Buddhahood, or Godhood! Only by letting go of trying like this can he realize his own true nature.

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 No.131020

>>131000

There isn't one, really. It's a matter of taste, I'm just busting his balls for fun.

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 No.131021

>>131002

>>131003

Yes, this is all the case.

It takes some balls to be able to go very far on the path and to then get rid of the raft and to abandon this altogether, but this is stepping onto the other shore. For this reason I advocate no Buddhism, nor any other path, for the same reason that a healthy person does not spend his time being treated in a hospital, and would not advocate that healthy others do so either. Why did I say there is much bullshit in Buddhism? For the same reason that the floor of a tub is filthy after showering, or a sewer system dirty after flushing. When Buddhism is needed, it is used and discarded. To attach to it or to reject it is to not recognize it for what it is.

There must come a time when even the notions of god and buddha are done away with in the process of seeing the nature of pure mind. Discarding even the highest, even the notion of an end state or goal, even progress, even discarding discarding itself, and discarding what comes after that, and even the notion of after that, and even this, all illusion ceases to be illusion. Why meditate, then? Why strive to become that which is not other? Meditate for the sake of meditation and the results that follow, should those results suit you, but that will not do to become a Buddha, not in this or any other lifetime. In lesser vehicles, meditation is certainly a great tool for purification, but unless you are a Buddha now in this moment, you will not attain Buddhahood by meditation or by practice or by attainment. None of these will do. It is now or never.

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 No.132504

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>to those of you who are still on the Chaos wheel of endless acquisition

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 No.132506

>>130754

Well no he doesn't, it's self delusion because no matter how deeply you realise the illusory nature of reality

YOU

ARE

STILL

STUCK

HERE

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 No.132603

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>>130913

>. It's important to get Nagarjuna's material in front of people in that process,

yikes, cringe and blue-pilled

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 No.132621

>>130754

You wanna fall into poverty? Cuz that's how you fall into poverty.

Too many hippy burnouts end up roaming the streets, believing they can just ignore material conditions of existence.

The material realm must be dealt with detachment, but it doesn't disappear just because you stop believing in it.

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 No.132635

What is this thread supposed to be for?

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 No.132636

The Buddhapill is raoften misinterpreted. Or rather, there are many Buddhapills. Which one did you have in mind?

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 No.132637

Any actual discussion of Buddhism requires an understanding and exploration of Nirvana and Samara.

>>130913

If everything is Samsara, and the ultimate Nirvana is supposed to end it all…

Is Sunyata real? What appears real to us is Samsara…

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