Nak Khid

If you remain alone and sit in diligent meditation and see the truth that won't make you happy. If you help people or contribute to people and love people it makes you happy. You have to take action to be happy. But if you only want truth you can have that too but then you will find yourself alone in the truth

On Novenber 24 I mad a thread about this very same video It's like what Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche said in the video different people have different tastes or ways of being happy. So if Rupert Spira seems a little flat to me relative to Mingyur Rinpoche seems more that is relative to the particulars of who I am and may not relate to your personality as much. My point was that Rupert Spira is more intellectual and articulate in English but to me, feels a little glib. I also find the statement "nothing can make you happy" a little extreme and not really true. I think you have to do certain things to be happy and I see that as a thing even if outside of external things. It sounds more of like something to say to catch your attention .

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Tibetan teacher of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. The guy is not the most intellectual monk but he strikes me as a happy one. If you are trying to find happiness look at happy people and see what you can observe. Not happy jerks that don't you respect. People you do respect. People that don't seem happy are not going to be the of the group that you might really learn form, no matter how intellectual they are about it or claims they make. Even a happy idiot knows more. Observe them. It's a natural characteristic and if you stay focused on it you can learn a little of it But there are so many distractions and curiosities in this internet world

If life has no meaning or purpose what's this? >> _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ If reality is an illusion so is truth It would be nice if your self actualization program dovetailed with your enlightenment program but it can't because the aims are different. There are some people purported to be enlightened and have successful "careers" as spiritual teachers. However to become enlightened you cannot cling to the idea of a career in any way and you have to be willing to sacrifice everything if necessary. Having a career much less a "dream career" is an attachment. Maybe there are some people out there that appear to have it both ways but that is an accident, if not people clever with words and marketing If you want to experience you will have to give up everything. I don't expect you to it is a hard and dangerous road and America is quite conducive to it. Your started out in this self help "dream career" /pick up mode. No one will take your enlightenment talk seriously enough while you maintain that earlier self improvement mode and the same time talking about no self. That is not to say do away with that. It is to say you will come to a point where you will have to do away with one or the other. You haven't reached permanent enlightenment because you don't want to give up the career you have carved out for yourself. I don't blame you because hard sacrifices would have to be made.

He does it everyday in this forum though. He will go pubic later He was probably born with an outgoing personality and he loves the limelight He's also about 20 years older than Leo, plus has a larger beard.

Are you in Rockhampton? You could visit Ananda Buddhist Centre, on the corner of Hinchliff and Munro Streets, North Rockhampton. The centre is located on the ground floor of the Mt Archer Lions Club hall, adjacent to the Parkana Football Club.Calm Abiding Meditation Sundays 10-11am, Ananda Buddhist Centre https://www.anandabuddhist.com.au/

@Patrick Lynam I'm not going to say that mediation is necessarily benefiting you, it may or may not however, this thing about the legs smells like bullshit. It sounds like the facilitator of the breath work seem to be just trying to get you away from what he or she sees a as a competitive spiritual system, meditation. I like the William Hoff method of breath works well as a nice lead into Vipassana meditation in my opinion and the mediation adds a nice grounding to it. You could merely not tell this breath work facilitator you are doing mediation and continue to do it. He may have just said that based on your legs looking skinny to him rather than getting a divine inspiration about it. If he also has a degree in physical therapy it might be more worth paying close attention to and then getting a second opinion to verify it

1) So a facilitator at vipassana retreat said he used to be vegan and meditate and that his life was getting worse and not better. So why would he be facilitating a meditation retreat? 2) How did they observe that your are quite disconnected from your legs? Did you feel that you had any kind of leg problems before going to this retreat ? It don't see how doing exercise with the legs corresponds with doing or not doing meditation be on the lookout for this developing into a sales pitch for bioenergetic therapy (associated with Wilhelm Reich ) As for Vipassana, get a second opinion see if you can meet with somebody who had verifiable training in Theravada in South Asia or has trained under a Theravada monk. And I advise not doing anything special with your legs unless you have had problems with them and a doctor has examined your legs

How common is K2 Spice abuse in the Navy or is that going on more in the Army?

God is not in charge of all diseases? What are some of the diseases God is not in charge of?

You are currently in the Navy? When do you plan to retire?

Are You Looking to Buddhism When You Should Be Looking to Therapy? The ultimate goal of Buddhist practice isn’t about achieving mental health. By C. W. Huntington, Jr. Spring 2018 Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, (excepts) https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhism-and-psychotherapy/ Some 30 years ago Jack Engler published an influential study based on his experience as both a Buddhist meditation teacher and a clinical psychologist. He had discovered over the years that many people who come to Buddhism are looking for the kind of help they ought properly to seek in psychotherapy. “With the ‘triumph of the therapeutic’ in Western culture,” he wrote, there is a tendency in mindfulness meditation to “analyze mental content instead of simply observing it.” In more recent years this conflation between Buddhist practice and psychotherapy has only deepened. Books tracing associations between the two traditions have proliferated, and the use of mindfulness meditation in a therapeutic setting has become commonplace. Indeed, pristine, unassailable mental health is often assumed to be the ultimate goal of all study and practice of the dharma. The problem, however, is that it isn’t. And when, as it happens, an accomplished Buddhist meditator struggles with severe depression or anxiety—symptoms of a clinically diagnosed psychological disorder—it can be especially difficult for students to understand. Writing after the death of the Canadian Buddhist teacher Michael Stone, who had struggled with bipolar disorder, the Scottish Zen monk Dogo Barry Graham reflected on would-be students who were disappointed to hear that what treats his own mental health issues is not meditation, but Prozac. “Some were upset when I told them to see a doctor before they attempted meditation practice,” he wrote on his blog. The practice of psychotherapy is, accordingly, dedicated to a method of healing that leaves the conventional structure of self-as-agent intact as the focal point of attention, whereas Buddhist spiritual practice engages in a sustained, methodical dismantling of our customary preoccupation with self-centered experience.... At the time of Engler’s study 30 years ago, those undertaking Buddhist practice to solve psychotherapeutic issues—and, according to him, there were many such people—often suffered from various clinical disorders characteristic of an ego that had been traumatized and arrested in the course of its development. They were frequently searching for a way to avoid the developmental tasks essential to the formation of a functioning ego; Buddhism was particularly attractive to them because of its core teaching of no-self, mistakenly perceived as a “shortcut solution to the developmental tasks appropriate and necessary to their stage of the life cycle.” However, what they found in Buddhist practice was, ironically, nothing but an endless hall of mirrors reflecting their own fears and desires.... As practiced in the traditional Buddhist context, mindfulness is not a powerful, spiritualized form of psychotherapy, a device for fine-tuning the ego—much less a strategy for achieving “complete and invulnerable self-sufficiency.” Although in an abridged form it can be legitimately harnessed to the business of healing the self of a range of mental and emotional disorders, as an essential component in the Buddhist path to nibbana, mindfulness is not about becoming a happier, better person. It’s not about “happiness” at all—at least not if “happiness” is understood as the fulfillment of desire. Mindfulness is, rather, about wisdom rooted in insight, renunciation, and unqualified self-surrender. ___________________________ Established in 1990 as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization, The Tricycle Foundation is dedicated to making Buddhist teachings and practices broadly available. In 1991 the Foundation launched Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the first magazine intended to present Buddhist perspectives to a Western readership.

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Can Love be Chemically Triggered? can a specific chemical like alcohol, LSD or meth amphetamine all trigger love or can only a specific set chemicals trigger love? If any of these substances can trigger love that implies that love is material, a physical aspect of the brain that can be activated by certain chemicals.

Yes

so somewhere in between a Leo and an Alex Jones might be the best delivery style -assuming the message is valuable

but they don't work

Yes this can happen and it can happen more easily if you live close to your old weaknesses

come on

This is the full debate, near to two hours. The shorter video in the OP is near to the beginning here. It was interesting to see Deepak Chopra getting angry. It would make a good boxing match. Check out 36:45, shortly after there is an edit. I wonder why

I didn't say imagination is a belief. You said reality is imaginary. That is your belief

Are you happy now?

that's a belief