hello everyone,
I'm very new to the buddhist philosophy but just a couple weeks of study, meditation and contemplation has already begun a transformation within (and without!).
The Anattā doctrine is what initially caught my interest. The concept resonated with truth as I read it...impermanence...every conditioned thing on this planet is subject to the law of impermanence...every living thing, every thought, every feeling, every sensation, every life situation...everything...is temporary.
This revelation tied in perfectly with the concept of Dukkha. I began to see that one's suffering doesn't just "come from nowhere." I realized that all of the suffering i have experienced recently has been an entirely self-created "illusion" of sorts ..caused primarily by clinging to certain sensations, feelings, material things, and thoughts which were completely and totally temporary and transitory.
In that moment i began to realize the cause-effect nature of addiction/attachment and its subsequent pain. It can be an addiction to anything in life, and it always starts the same way...something gives us a pleasurable experience...because it feels good we repeat it...though it feels good, its temporal nature can never truly bring us fulfillment...the more we do it, the more attached we become to it...the more attached we become the more we feel we "need" it in order to be whole...the more we crave it, the more we ultimately suffer, drifting through an endless cycle of "needing" transient pleasures.
I've read more than just that but i'll stop here for brevity's sake. These two concepts alone have already helped me become more aware of the nature of things, including the mind, thoughts, feelings, desires, compulsions and addictions...as such, i look forward to learning more and applying Buddhist knowledge as much as possible.
Peace...
<<<phil-zero>>>
greetings (from a novice practitioner)
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phil-zero,
I guess you already found the good book. Stay on it and do not seek to much outside. Let your heart teach it self. Let it dig.
I guess you already found the good book. Stay on it and do not seek to much outside. Let your heart teach it self. Let it dig.
Just that! *smile*
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
Re: greetings (from a novice practitioner)
Hello Phil,
Welcome to Dhammawheel! Look forward to reading your posts in the future.
with metta
Chris
Welcome to Dhammawheel! Look forward to reading your posts in the future.
with metta
Chris
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---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: greetings (from a novice practitioner)
Welcome Phil!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
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Hi Phil!
Welcome aboard!
Welcome aboard!
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But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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