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To all or none,
I am going to tell you a Zen story ,that I have always loved.

Every morning,a young monk would pass in front of an old solitary monk,with a rake.Every time ,the old monk ,would see the young
Monk ,he would shake his head from left to right,repeatably.

One day the young monk ,gathered enough courage to address the Master.He knelt and bowed to the Master.He then said:Reverend Master,each day when I pass in front of your house ,you shake your head,may I know why?
Dear young monk,you spend so much time trying to clean the underbrush of the forest,do you not realize the time it took the forest to become like that......

Loong
Buddhist

To all or none,

Today ,I feel like talking about the Green Tara.She is the mother of all Buddhas .There are 21Taras,each one representing something she encompasses.Tara as many colors.She was the first ever Buddhani.Try wiki ,where all her names are given also all her attributes.
Please yourself,this being a woman's group many of you should
Inquire about her.
All the Mantras about her are all very soft.

Loong,fan of Tara.

To all or none,

What Buddhism asks of a Buddhist is to rid himself of cravings,attachment and fetters.

I have found a good text regarding attachments.Listed below

Let us sum up. These four forms of attachment are the only problem that Buddhists or people who wish to know about Buddhism have to understand. The objective of living a holy life (Brahmacariya) in Buddhism is to enable the mind to give up unskillful grasping. You can find this teaching in every discourse in the texts which treats of the attainment of arahantship. The expression used is "the mind freed from attachment." That is the ultimate. When the mind is free from attachment, there is nothing to bind it and make it a slave of the world. There is nothing to keep it spinning on in the cycle of birth and death, so the whole process comes to a stop, or rather, becomes world transcending, free from the world. The giving up of unskillful clinging is, then, the key to Buddhist practice.

Extract from "Handbook for Mankind" by Bhikkhu Buddhadasa.

loong
messenger

To all or none,

Had forgotten to list the 4 attachments.Here they are...

1.sense-pleasure clinging: repeated craving of worldly things.
2.wrong-view clinging: such as eternalism (e.g., "The world and self are eternal") or nihilism.[7]
3.rites-and-rituals clinging: believing that rites alone could directly lead to liberation, typified in the texts by the rites and rituals of "ox practice" and "dog practice."[8]
4.self-doctrine clinging: self-identification with self-less entities (e.g., illustrated by MN 44,[9] and further discussed in the skandha and anatta articles


loong
messenger

To all or none,

How can we live in the present moment?live Right now with people around us,helping to lessen their suffering and making their lives happier.How?The answer is this:WE MUST PRACTICE MINDFULNESS.

Loong
Buddhist.

To all or none,

This is the way to understand a simple truth:THICH NHAT HANH
has mentioned elsewhere:Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of Compassion."That more inclusive sight makes the small but crucial difference between dispair and hope.

To all or none

What will follow is a post I wrote 4/12 regarding the Gist of
Buddhism.This gist is the basis of Buddhism and accepted by mostly all lineages in Buddhism.It is a simplified way to awakening.1)Buddha
3) The Three Jewels of Buddhism (Buddha,Dharma,Sangha)

4)Here starts the core of the path.
The Four Noble Truths

1) man is on this planet and suffers(dhukka)
2) man suffers because of attachments, cravings,fetters.
3) man must rid himself of these three resons for suffering
4) man if he wants to rid himself of these sufferings,must use:
The Noble Eightfold Path. which are
1)Right View
2)Right Intention
3)Right Speech
4)Right Action
5)Right Livelyhood
6)Right Effort
7)Right Mindfulness
8)Right Concentration.

what accompanies the above are the 5 Precepts for the lay person

One shall not kill,anything
One must not take what was not given to him
One must always tell the truth(not lie)
One must have control over his sexuality
One must not use any intoxicants liquid or solid that may alter his judgement.

Buddha meditated 7 years to come up with this gist.He became awaken
Under a Bodhi Three .He walked 14 to 15 countries to spread his Dharma.He gave between 82 to86,000 messages that are conserved.
in Sri-Lanka in something called the three baskets or Pali Canon.

loong
simple buddhist

To all or none,

Got up at 6.20 am this morning to weatch the Men's hockey finals.
Yes Canada won the Gold Medal.Went to bed right after.
This is not why ,I am writing this post.

This month financially has been hard.I only live with the old age pension.I had to borrow money to someone I know kind of well!
Man ,do I ever have still false pride.Borrowing money to someone not even half your age.She was more than happy to. She lent me twice I asked her.
In some say two things comes out of it.Spend my money differently
and still am a member of mansworld or mansland.
Nope have not attained enlightenment yet.

loong
buddhist and still a long path to walk.

To all or none,

As per certain sources ,the visits we have on the Buddhism section,which ,by the way is visited 1000 times per 2days,with a present total of well over 150,000 visits.They would be by search engines.I was told not to get all excited about that.
Buddha,said to give,and give we do .If one person in the 1000 visits,learns something new,something that may bring him closer to "enlightenment,then our work as Buddhists will be done.

I believe a lot in the Oneness of the Universe.This morning ,I decided that I would stop working with one book,I usually use four,to get all those posts,to sharing and my betterment.
And said ,I have to get a new one.I am at a supermarket,and meet one of my ex employees ,telling me she wrote a book and published it through Amazone.She sold me a copy.
It is titled " My short Story of Enlightenment.".It is a 60 page
book ,I will keep you posted.The next book ,I might be ordering
should be on Compassion,METTA

Keep you posted

Loong
Buddhist son of the Oneness.

To all or none,
In post 857809,the gist of Buddhism ,I wrote about Dhukka being caused by attachments cravings anf fetters.

Every afternoon ,for a few hours I use a tablett(pad) to type my

posts.When I came home,I plugged it to recharge it.Nothing

happened.I tried many times to open it.No way.A tablette
compared to a pc ,has to be emptied at some point.

Tried it again a few minutes ago.No go.

When I found out around supper time that the tablette might be

blown or something ,Dhukka appeared.I am attached to my little piece of Android. If it is kaput ,I will not be able to buy another one.Financially going through rough times.

Now it is time for me to to be Mindfull and live in the Now,just Now.Now is the time to be a true buddhist.

loong
buddhist