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To all or none,

Well , went to the emergency again for angina (3) small but real.Seeds of delusion came out of my store consciousness.

The fear of Death.I always tell people that I do not fear death.
Again last nite ,part of the Dhammapada was lived.Old age it is called.I waited 12 hours there.
When I had my fifth operation last year,I was told that I was good for another 20 years.Wrong diagnostic.

When someone has a heart problem ,he always lives with the seed of fear ,that something could happen.

What in reality ,peaving me ,is that again ,I will have to get another Mibi exam , and go through the whole circus again of exams etc.

There should be no fear,for a supposedly Buddhist living in Mindfulness and Equanimity.

By writing this post ,I am ridding myself of some of those seeds of fear.

loong
son of the Universe

Good luck with it all Loong.

To all or none
Text by Banthe
What is Wrong? The Mind or the World?


Is the world wrong? No the world is just as it is: Always a changing misery!
Are the other people wrong? No there is just greed, hate and ignorance...
Is the society wrong? No, the kammic cause and effect is perfectly just & fair!
Is you yourself wrong? No, since there are just passing mental & material states...

What then is Wrong?
The aversive mind opposing and rejecting some reals, while accepting others is wrong!
This stubbornly defying mind defends a rigid stand & fight against any present reality...
Why is this resisting combat mind wrong? Because however much it clashes with both
the internal and external faults, it cannot ever cure them... Rather they grow stronger!
Opposition simply does not help anything at all! Rather it aggravates the problems...

Bhikkhu Samahita.

To all or none,

I now have a student.Tomorrow is our second cession.About 2hours
each .The first one was on the Gist of Buddhism,a post I made quite a while ago,giving the basic Buddhist path.
It might still be on file,I will try to find the post number

Loong
Mahayana Buddhist 😇

To all or none,

I have found the # of the post ,but does seem to be available it bore # 757495

loong

only a few months worth of posts are kept on the server for space reasons

To all or none,
Text by Banthe ,from Sri-Lanka


Friends:

Dear and Delightful is Dangerous..

Whatsoever dear things in which we delight, that which is pleasant to us,
all these will undergo change and alteration... We will thereby loose what
they were before, and be separated from them, since now they have indeed
become otherwise, and are thus not anymore the same. They have become
something different! Whatsoever is born, became, arisen, emerged, and
having come into being as a compounded and constructed phenomenon;
all that is liable to decay, is prone to fade away, and is bound to vanish...
It is impossible for a thing dependent on supporting conditions not to
disintegrate, break up, fall apart, die, and cease to exist.
Thus renouncing, letting go, leaving behind, forsaking, abandoning and
rejecting all these transient fabrications, is therefore the only true and
safe escape from the sure suffering, misery, frustration and deprivation
inherent in all this repeated & ever recurring loss, decay, demise, deficit,
ageing, sickness and Death...
This unconditional & eternal release from all Pain, Misery & Death is
called Awakening into Enlightenment... The Noble 8-fold Way is the
only real way thereto. There is no other certain, safe & sound exit...
Yes we Can indeed change to the better!
Now is the time to realize that fact ...
Now is the time to initiate that path ...
Now is the time to complete that task ...
May your journey be swift and sweet!!!

to all or none,

I am one of those who beleives in the Oneness with the Universe.

Last nite after receiving MRI's ,I could not find my way into the

hospital.Then one man appears out of nowhere and guides me

through the maze of corricors ,all alike.I had to pay my

parking fee.He helped me without pretention just out of

conpassion.When I finally found how and where to get out,

I told the man:I do not beleive in Angels,but the Universe just

sent me one.

Please never doubt ,the Power of Oneness of the Universe.

loong

To all or none,
Text by THICH NHAT HANH,

Much of the suffering we experience every day comes from OUR FALSE PERCEPTIONS,based on fear and ignorance.Hindus and Muslims
Palestinians and Israelis,have a lot of fear because their images
of one another.Because they are dwelling in the Realm of representations,they continue to make themselves and others suffer.We live day in day out in the realm of representations,
full of errors and discrimination,and we suffer because of it.....

Loong,s comment:I have read a lot of material onbuddhism,on mansland and I do believe that this text explains clearly,
all the problems of the world we live in this instant

_/\_
Just the messenger

To all or none,

I have in my collection of plants,one bamboo that has growned
since I have it,an incredible size.To replant it ,had to buy a glass jar,15 inches high,by six inches in diameter.

A few months ago ,out of the mud and stones, two new stems have
taken over the plant .The 4 original ones are slowly dying.
Since I do not cut live flowers or plants,I am seeing the aging and futher on I will see the dying of the four original stems.

Why ,You may ask,why I write about these things.
I see everyday the cycle of life with this plant,nothing will be lost ,the dead ones will decay ,rott,and used for fertalizing my other plants.Mindfulness ,is I beleive seeing these changes in our environments.

Loong
Mahayana Buddhist