If you met the Awakened One
If you met the Awakened One
If you met the Buddha and had the chance to ask only one question what would you ask?
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Did you teach re-birth and Kamma? if so prove to me that you are right.
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
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Srilankaputra
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If you don't prove it to me I am going strait back home.
Wish you all success in all your endeavours. Goodbye!
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If he said take it on faith would you?
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Yes. I would.
Because it is coming straight from Buddha, not from hearsay.
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
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JamesTheGiant
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I'd offer him some food. Sooo much merit!
Then after the meal I'd ask for a teaching, and he being able to see my mind and know the most suitable teaching, would given me the best lesson for my mind, and in no long time I'd attain to etc etc...
Then after the meal I'd ask for a teaching, and he being able to see my mind and know the most suitable teaching, would given me the best lesson for my mind, and in no long time I'd attain to etc etc...
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You are a real student, James.JamesTheGiant wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 8:14 am Then after the meal I'd ask for a teaching, and he being able to see my mind and know the most suitable teaching, would given me the best lesson for my mind, and in no long time I'd attain to etc etc...
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Like James, ask for advice.
"Does Master Gotama have any position at all?"
"A 'position,' Vaccha, is something that a Tathagata has done away with. What a Tathagata sees is this: 'Such is form, such its origination, such its disappearance; such is feeling, such its origination, such its disappearance; such is perception...such are fabrications...such is consciousness, such its origination, such its disappearance.'" - Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
'Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.' - Genesis 3:19
'Some fart freely, some try to hide and silence it. Which one is correct?' - Saegnapha
"A 'position,' Vaccha, is something that a Tathagata has done away with. What a Tathagata sees is this: 'Such is form, such its origination, such its disappearance; such is feeling, such its origination, such its disappearance; such is perception...such are fabrications...such is consciousness, such its origination, such its disappearance.'" - Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
'Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.' - Genesis 3:19
'Some fart freely, some try to hide and silence it. Which one is correct?' - Saegnapha
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- "How am I?"
The courtesy of asking how things are becomes a deep inquiry.
The courtesy of asking how things are becomes a deep inquiry.
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I'm more of a Zen guy, so if I met the Buddha, I would kill the Buddha. 
I know I know I know...that's not what the OP meant.
If I could travel back in time and actually come face to face with him, and could speak his language (or more likely he could see my mind well enough to "speak" mine)...I'd probably not ask him anything. Words are not enough. I'd just appreciate being in his presence and soaking it in.
I know I know I know...that's not what the OP meant.
If I could travel back in time and actually come face to face with him, and could speak his language (or more likely he could see my mind well enough to "speak" mine)...I'd probably not ask him anything. Words are not enough. I'd just appreciate being in his presence and soaking it in.
Right now, it's like this...
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Well, sure, if I literally executed the actual living Sakyamuni Buddha physically standing right before me.
But as I indicated in my followup, I was joking.
And that's not what the Zen parable is about, either - if I "see" the Buddha, then I've immediately turned the Buddha into a THING, into an object of attachment, and that's going to hinder my true progress, so I must "kill" my conceptualization of the Buddha in order to get to the truth. That sorta thing.
But now that I had to explain the joke, it's not funny anymore, assuming it was slightly humorous to begin with.............
Right now, it's like this...
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Yes I understood what you meant, but you didn't understand my insinuation: that we're on a Theravada forum.JMGinPDX wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 8:06 pmWell, sure, if I literally executed the actual living Sakyamuni Buddha physically standing right before me.
But as I indicated in my followup, I was joking.
And that's not what the Zen parable is about, either - if I "see" the Buddha, then I've immediately turned the Buddha into a THING, into an object of attachment, and that's going to hinder my true progress, so I must "kill" my conceptualization of the Buddha in order to get to the truth. That sorta thing.
But now that I had to explain the joke, it's not funny anymore, assuming it was slightly humorous to begin with.............
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cappuccino
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Buddha's don't have the karma to be killedbudo wrote:And instantly die and be reborn in the lowest level of hell for a long long long time.JMGinPDX wrote: I'm more of a Zen guy, so if I met the Buddha, I would kill the Buddha.
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What practicing Buddhist tradition today got it right..or the closest. 
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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