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How do you imagine beings of other realms?
Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
Realm of The Weeping Gods:
𝓑𝓾𝓭𝓭𝓱𝓪 𝓗𝓪𝓭 𝓤𝓷𝓮𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓿𝓸𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓓𝓮𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽
𝓐𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓽ā 𝓜𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓘𝓼
- Iᴅᴇᴀ ᴏꜰ Sᴏᴜʟ ɪs Oᴜᴛᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴀɴ Uᴛᴛᴇʀʟʏ Fᴏᴏʟɪsʜ Vɪᴇᴡ
V. Nanananda
𝓐𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓽ā 𝓜𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓘𝓼
- Nᴏ sᴜᴄʜ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀs ᴀ Sᴇʟғ, Sᴏᴜʟ, Eɢᴏ, Sᴘɪʀɪᴛ, ᴏʀ Āᴛᴍᴀɴ
V. Buddhādasa
Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
I don't imagine beings of other realms. I regard them as mental states.How do you imagine beings of other realms?
The rich iconography of the Wheel of Life can be interpreted on several levels. The six major sections represent the Six Realms. These realms can be understood as forms of existence, or states of mind, into which beings are born according to their karma. The realms also can be viewed as situations in life or even personality types—hungry ghosts are addicts; devas are privileged; hell beings have anger issues.
https://www.learnreligions.com/the-whee ... fe-4123213
Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
I don't think its beautiful at all! It looks like an idealised teenage girl without any breasts, who's wearing a lot of eyeliner and red lipstick. "Different strokes for different folks" as the old saying goes....rhinoceroshorn wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:36 pmHindu art is beautiful.
Saw earlier this illustration of Gotama cutting his hair. Very beautiful.
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
I imagine beings from other realms as beyond human understanding. I imagine if I saw such a being it would look something like this:
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
It's not something I really think about. I'm still trying to understand being in the human realm.
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
I'm still trying to understand not being.Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:56 am It's not something I really think about. I'm still trying to understand being in the human realm.
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammā Sambuddhassa
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
So u deny next life?Aloka wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 5:30 amI don't imagine beings of other realms. I regard them as mental states.How do you imagine beings of other realms?
The rich iconography of the Wheel of Life can be interpreted on several levels. The six major sections represent the Six Realms. These realms can be understood as forms of existence, or states of mind, into which beings are born according to their karma. The realms also can be viewed as situations in life or even personality types—hungry ghosts are addicts; devas are privileged; hell beings have anger issues.
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
If you didn't care
What happened to me
And I didn't care for you
We would zig-zag our way
Through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the
Buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing
- Roger Waters
What happened to me
And I didn't care for you
We would zig-zag our way
Through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the
Buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
Wow, so all these years Buddha's talks on heaven, hell, this world, another world, Asuras wars with Devas, Peta, how Devas visited Him for teachings, Mara army, Nagas and Supannas, Supernormal powers through Jhanic powers, all non-existent?Aloka wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 5:30 amI don't imagine beings of other realms. I regard them as mental states.How do you imagine beings of other realms?
The rich iconography of the Wheel of Life can be interpreted on several levels. The six major sections represent the Six Realms. These realms can be understood as forms of existence, or states of mind, into which beings are born according to their karma. The realms also can be viewed as situations in life or even personality types—hungry ghosts are addicts; devas are privileged; hell beings have anger issues.
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If implying from your statement, there is no other world and no next life too (provided still not Enlightened), that is nihilistic. Stalin will be happy.
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
Most probable the Buddha limited to taught about human experience, suffering and the end of suffering. But we can believe other than that.Dhammavamsa wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:57 pm Wow, so all these years Buddha's talks on heaven, hell, this world, another world, Asuras wars with Devas, Peta, how Devas visited Him for teachings, Mara army, Nagas and Supannas, Supernormal powers through Jhanic powers, all non-existent?
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Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammā Sambuddhassa
Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
Stalin .... Lol, get a life, Kiddiwinks!Dhammavamsa wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:57 pm
If implying from your statement, there is no other world and no next life too (provided still not Enlightened), that is nihilistic. Stalin will be happy.
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
The above is not related to any "next life". For example, heaven & hell are described as follows:Dhammavamsa wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:57 pm Wow, so all these years Buddha's talks on heaven, hell, this world, another world, Asuras wars with Devas, Peta, how Devas visited Him for teachings, Mara army, Nagas and Supannas, Supernormal powers through Jhanic powers, all non-existent?
SN 35.135 wrote:“Bhikkhus, it is a gain for you, it is well gained by you, that you have obtained the opportunity for living the holy life. I have seen, bhikkhus, the hell named ‘Contact’s Sixfold Base.’ There whatever form one sees with the eye is undesirable, never desirable; unlovely, never lovely; disagreeable, never agreeable. Whatever sound one hears with the ear … Whatever odour one smells with the nose … Whatever taste one savours with the tongue … Whatever tactile object one feels with the body … Whatever mental phenomenon one cognizes with the mind is undesirable, never desirable; unlovely, never lovely; disagreeable, never agreeable.
“It is a gain for you, bhikkhus, it is well gained by you, that you have obtained the opportunity for living the holy life. I have seen, bhikkhus, the heaven named ‘Contact’s Sixfold Base.’ There whatever form one sees with the eye is desirable, never undesirable; lovely, never unlovely; agreeable, never disagreeable. Whatever sound one hears with the ear … Whatever odour one smells with the nose … Whatever taste one savours with the tongue … Whatever tactile object one feels with the body … Whatever mental phenomenon one cognizes with the mind is desirable, never undesirable; lovely, never unlovely; agreeable, never disagreeable.
“It is a gain for you, bhikkhus, it is well gained by you, that you have obtained the opportunity for living the holy life.”
https://suttacentral.net/sn35.135/en/bodhi
The Pali "paraloka" means "other world" rather than "next world". For example, due to kamma, such as addiction to drugs, one can proceed to a hell world of pain, trauma & degeneration.Dhammavamsa wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:57 pmIf implying from your statement, there is no other world and no next life too (provided still not Enlightened), that is nihilistic.
The Pali word for "nihilism" means "not believe in goodness & its benefits". "Nihilism" does not mean believing there is no life after death.
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?
Aslan?
Edit: I immediately realized after posting you were referring to the animal realm
"I don't envision a single thing that, when developed & cultivated, leads to such great benefit as the mind. The mind, when developed & cultivated, leads to great benefit."
"I don't envision a single thing that, when undeveloped & uncultivated, brings about such suffering & stress as the mind. The mind, when undeveloped & uncultivated, brings about suffering & stress."
"I don't envision a single thing that, when undeveloped & uncultivated, brings about such suffering & stress as the mind. The mind, when undeveloped & uncultivated, brings about suffering & stress."