Commitment to Buddhism (mystic, evolve, experience, bless, service)

[zenzero]

Friend Scarlett,
Very true. Realisation is a door. Understanding is of the mind so is commitment.
Only when that very MIND is silenced/calmed; then only Existence IS and automatically plays its part through the individual and then the individual is like a hollow bamboo, an openness / a nothingness / a mirror. Realistion too comes on its own, then.
The question that is relevant is how to silence that mind.
Any effort or journey that is to be made is this much only. Get down to silence the mind and allow existence to BE. When existence IS then the individual is no more. He is only a nothingness/ a hollow bamboo/ a mirror. The mind is the individual/ego that is the barrier. Once that is dropped it is the time that one is actually born; born to existence no more to that self/ego.
Many individuals have reached that peak when the mind is totally silent and they have shown WAYS/PATHS to others.
Importantly the question has been addressed directly by some and so they have without much ado talks mainly about meditation. Meditation is only a WAY, meditation also does not mean sitting in a posture, no even TAI-CHI/ YOGA excercises are meditaion dancing/singing or matter of fact what ever one does every moment can be a meditation in itself. Meditation only means being aware.
STOP your breath and immediately one becomes aware and then being aware of that breathing itself becomes a meditation or Anapanasati as Buddha has taught. Once the awareness grows the mind takes a back seat and slowly existence comes in.
Love & rgds

[Scarlett Wampus]

Zenzero you are bang on the money again (pardon the expression)

I have noticed lately that what I used to think pleasurable as well as what is unpleasant is getting very tiresome. Why? Because the mind is not quiet. Chasing one thing and avoiding another, even or especially at a subconscious level, really does perpetuate endless grasping and even the most wonderful experiences can become an annoyance. Its like a game that goes on and on without winning or losing. God and the Devil, doing good and doing evil, are just noise like this.

[michaelm]

For me, as a buddhist/advaitist, I try to just maintain the meditation practice every day. Everything else will just follow on from that. Views change, beliefs and understanding change, everything changes, but the meditation leads you through those changes..

All it needs is discipline, determination and patience

[koan]

And mindfulness

[YmirGF]

My deepest, heartfelt congratulations, Scarlett.

Am I surprised. Ack, no. Then again, I am not easily surprised, lol.

As others have observed, once you can turn off the "internal dialogue" at will that is when things begin to get rather interesting. Meet you There, some day.

[Somkid]

I have no commitment to Buddhism I simply follow the teachings of the Buddha because they make me happy. You should only follow the path because it makes you happy and you find truth in it.

[MysticSang'ha]

Originally Posted by Somkid

I have no commitment to Buddhism I simply follow the teachings of the Buddha because they make me happy. You should only follow the path because it makes you happy and you find truth in it.

But of course.

When we were visited by Ven. Robina Courtin several weeks ago, she'd said to one man asking her a relatively similar question, and she interrupted him by saying, Darling, if it works for you, do it!




Peace,
Mystic

[Somkid]

Nicely said Mystic Sang'ha some times we lose sight of the point and get wrapped up in dogmatic understandings of some of the most basic principals.