Is God good? | Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2015
- Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions during a retreat in Plum Village (June, 2014).
Questions: How can we let the self die in order to overcome suffering? If everything is a blessing from God, is everything God sends us good then?
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The memory of this nun repeating the question is impressive. in every video she impresses me. How does she manage to memorize everything and reformulate the question and its context to perfection? she doesn't even take notes. Incomprehensible.
She followed the Noble 8 Fold Path which included Right Mindfulnes and Right Concentration.
Actually she missed a little bit. The troubled woman said she believes all the conditions arising are from her God's plan but she said something else, but it's not really important.
she has already did the right meditation, that how she abble to do that
she was a journalist before becoming monastic
Outstanding.
This man's teachings has had many transformative effects on my life. A true Guru indeed!
Perfect. The raw truethful emotion of the person asking the question only emplyfied the greatness of the answer.
Wah what an answer 🙏🙏🙏
Excellent! No self to die! tis just an illusion! like a dream... feels so real! but its just a dream!
@Omar Q coz your you still haven't transcended your ego self... if you've begun to understand it, You'll see that that "loan" was just you thinking it needed that piece of paper to justify your value in order to contribute back to society, fyi, thats not really a bad thing if you actually learnt anything from your degree program and are able to give value back to society, nation or world, and by doing so, you can and will clear that loan unless of course you don't intend to be of service...
@Omar Q the loan is yours and real but not the "self".
Yeaaaaa!!!
Thich begins explaining from 5:35
yep, some people really like the sound of their voices
True
He should have cut her off
So much beauty in her vulnerability
She fooled you as she fooled herself. Vulnerability is actualy the only thing that prevent her from knowing her so called god. When you see god you laugh at yourself for all that fuss you made up.
@@baptm727 Absolutely spot on.
Respect and metta for the woman taking her vow with this question.
Very noble thing to do. Much blessings.
Namo Amituofo🙏🙏🙏
Crazy beautiful ! I I’ve never hear anything like that. If If God is beyond duality we’re also God . Why is it so hard for our minds to realize this. I can imagine it but I don’t see it. I know the self is an illusion, and it really makes perfect sense in my mind, because I always had this feeling that something really big is obscure to our mind . but I can see it, only imagine it …
Im glad you understood the "self". I dont understand . How is there no self?
@@MrsBDatCreole hi ! I guess the this experience comes from the fact that you get more and more in touch with your awareness, it is the natural product of meditation. The self is constituted by multiples elements ( thoughts , feelings, body perceptions, memories , etc) and then you see that awareness is only one , without it you wouldn’t even know of the self . Is the only things that’s left . But don’t rationalize. You have to experience it . It will arise naturally from your meditation practice .
Thx! I think I get it but its foggy lol
@@MrsBDatCreole I understand this that way: the way we labeling ourselves, tell story about ourselves is a product of time, culture, our programming from childhood till now, our memory. It's like a program in computer. But who is experiencing this? If you change your name, nationality, religion will it be still you? If you lose your memory will it be still you?
Dearest Thay, Thank you so much.
a very powerful talk and philosophy
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great talk, very deep. Had to listen a few times to comprehend
She looks like she needs a hug
Tobi indeed she is a really cute woman. :)
She’s very thoughtful
I saw the Dalai Lama do just that with a woman overwhelmed by her life. 'I think you need a big hug and he held her 🕉
@@lauraupsall5091 yes sometimes it's all someone needs
I kept thinking that too! I wanted to just hold her 😥🤗
I enjoyed this video! Thanks for sharing.
Namaste
Val 😻😇
Beautiful! 🙏
Thank you.
pure genius
she has such a sweet heart
Yes, no doubt about that. Too bad her head is full of b.s. a.k.a. notions she doesn't really need... "the cosmic true nature body".. really? Who heeds to even define such a notion?!
@@h0ph1p13 people who are on different path it their journey.
Thank you 🙏❤️🙏
lov ths humour speech
amazing, i just understood the concept of Void (emptiness)
Powerful
Very blessed teachings God bless you all love his teaching clear understanding.
🤣🤣 which religion's God ? More than one religion claimed to have an all mighty god proved it is non-existent.
@@truth8307 the End Of A Religion is GOD In your soul
@@radiantpleiadeanlightchild3745 no thanks, I believe God is evil, look at the Covid-19 pandemic, highest fatalities are among the high Christianity population countries 😢😢 or is it karma due to their ignorance ?
Beautiful question and answer.
Jesus as the one to suffer for our concepts of what is free from sin and renewal in the body from death that we no longer have to be without the self. To practice the mindlessness is to deny the ideas of self, and replace the I for ego that in reality there may be an end to identifying where and why we are. Thank-You for the teaching
The only possessions that are ours, is out decisions. We own nothing else.
Though are our decisions ours, truly? as we base our decisions on the conditioning we have received over our life so our decisions are also deeply interconnected to the world and our karma. there is no possession of our decisions until we reach the unconditioned though we do have influence of our decisions based on our true nature
they are.
An objective teaching for the practice of Dhyana and development of Anatta. We learn to believe that exists an I in us, or a soul or spirit or a God...what we call we only have emptiness in consecutive creations.
Very educative. I love his videos. I do research on how Buddhism disappeared in Bihar. I realized it never disappeared from Bihar. Buddhists simply failed to research Indian Buddhism. They looked at Buddhism through the sphere of their own cultures searching for only the Buddha. Buddha had a myriad of names in different villages according to his teachings there. Example. His favorite teaching was 'Lust and desire causes pain. Remove lust and desire, and pain is removed'. Translated into Bihari (where the Buddha story took place) it is DHUKH HARAN meaning to remove dukha. Three dozen villages pray to DUKH HARAN Baba. Its clear that DUKH HARAN Baba is none other than the Buddha. Problem is Buddhists are searching only for the Buddha. In the real Vaishali the Buddha begged for alms. The locals there pray to 'BHIKHAINI' Baba (Beggar Baba). Bhikhaini was mispronounced by Buddhists as Bhikshu. Who is BHIKHAINI Baba. The Buddha no doubt. But people are searching for a man called Buddha. In the real Vaishali, in Beluha the Buddha suffered a sickness and felt he had grown old. The locals pray to 'BURHA' Baba (Old Baba). Who is BURHA Baba. The Buddha no doubt. In the real Vaishali the Lichavies pressurized Buddha not to die. They trailed him to Bandagawan pressurizing him not to die. To put pressure in Hindi is DABESHWAR. Three dozen villages around the stupa where Buddha gave the Lichavies his patra, the villagers pray to Baba 'DABESHWAR NATH' meaning the man who won the pressurizing game. It was the the Buddha no doubt as he gave the Lichavies his patra and succeded in sending them back. But Buddhists are searching for the Buddha. Forgive me for commenting out of the topic. I just wanted to impart this information to you.
Right: There is no one; there is all. One is a notion we have created for convenience, for ease of conversation. And, God is in the good things that happen and the bad. Suffering derives from both good and bad.
Nothing to do with any god
Peace and happiness can also derive from good and bad. All depends on your perspective 🙏
The Buddha said everyone can become God. You need to train your mind to touch your soul. You will not fear death because death and living are every moment. Dying and lying are inseparable and that your suffering is limited by your mind not train to the point that it can touch your spiritual soul.
No, you are badly wrong, the Buddha never said that. It's more correct to say the Buddha said everyone can be a Buddha.
@@truth8307 Were you there when the Buddha said that? Who is the Buddha? :) LMAO
@@crazieeez it makes no difference whether I heard it personally or not because the Buddha's teachings implied it. I guess you don't know what the Buddha taught.
@@crazieeez your last comment and your first comment showed you are self-contradictory. When you believe in a God, I already know you are in the wrong place. 🤣🤣
@@truth8307 I guess you don't know what the Buddha taught.
Remain as Awareness of what is.
Thanks for blassings
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It’s strange me personally I see all the bad that happened in my life for purpose to be great like the lotus growing from the mud .... like beauty from the ashes .... I view all things that happened weather good or bad all purposeful in my life reasons in the seasons I was growing through .💖🙏🏼
@Tony Tran When you make a mistake or try to do something and it doesn't work don't you see that you learned an the good that comes from it is you learned an next try works because you make an adjustment..
Yes if we did feel pain how would we know to be careful not to touch the stove
@Tony Tran you can if you DO learn from it. Knowing the difference between darkness and brightness makes the difference in the path or journey called life. This woman admitted she is suffering but at the same she believes everything is God's plan, her journey is darkness to darkness. Hopefully she understand his Holiness's words and see brightness.
both Jesus and Buddha were enlightened beings and spoke of the same path..this is what jesus spoke about renewal of the mind, dying to self. Buddha just gave the recipe in detail. Why do we separate two sages who spoke of the same thing? Just like Thich stated- I love Jesus as well as Buddha. Its the people who like to cause divisions and quarrels.
Marta eyore
Joe Buckyerself buddha never asked to b worshipped.
Marta eyore Buddha told his followers not to embrace his image as an idol.
Simone King im not worshiping idols nor do I have to prove anything to u. As I believe what I do and buddha is a teacher to me.
By trying to conflate the two teachings into one you lose the essence of both. This spiritual egalitarianism is a symptom of the new age, where everyone wants to believe that everything is equal and valid. This view does not hold up to serious scholarship nor experiential truth.
Jesus and Buddha may have some crossover teachings in Sila (Moral virtue) but that is about where it ends. Buddha teaches cessation, Jesus teaches eternal life in Heaven and Atta (self) in the form of the soul and God. Buddha announced the truth of Anatta (non-self) and is the only teacher in historicity to do so.
"Appamattakampi kalam bhave patisandhim na vannayami" ("I do not praise rebirth in any realm of existence even for a short time") AN 1/328
Buddhism Hinduism some say even Judaism and Christianity were branches which grew out from the original Vedic teachings and traditions. Vedic teaching are that our center if we know how to reach it, is pure happiness i.e. bliss unity..they developed a way through meditation and yoga assanas and grace of the guru would relieve the mind of stress and suffering. but the purity of the teachings on how to reach that state got lost along the way through the eons and became teachings to believe in. Originally the teachings came second to the direct experience through meditation..the teachings weren't designed to provide the experience but to help make sense of what the student was experiencing for himself.
I hope this woman will come here to tell us if she has overcomed her problems or sufferings after listening to his answer. Her problem lies on her strong belief in God so much so that she must talk about it in her name as well as in her question, even believing that her sufferings are God's plan. If so, why don't she accept her sufferings and why study Buddhism ? I have seen many people suffered because of self-conflicting belief like her.
I see this, thankyou 💜💜💜
I can appreciate his statement that the self cannot die because there's no self in the first place. That is true. And yet there is abundant evidence of selfishness everywhere, so that saying the self must die can be useful too. Okay, the "self" is an illusion. But the point is that it's a very strong illusion, with both subtle and obvious consequences, many of which are destructive. So the illusion must die. Regardless of whether there's in fact a self or not, selfish tendencies remain, and it is those tendencies that must die. Selfish habits are extremely strong, and we use the word "self" in this instance as a convenient label for those habits. Simply saying "there is no self" doesn't remove or dissolve the problem because the habits usually prevail. Another way of putting it: you can say, as Thich does, that there is no self, but it must be the fruit of inquiry; it must be a genuine discovery. To those who are caught up in selfish tendencies, the statement has little value.
Ms Francis , explained god let her experienced both good and bad from this world to her ? So its a blessing from god that she embraced . Buddha only Lives to showed us how he managed to free himself from any kind of sufferings from here within his span of life , including death. The only blessing that I embraced from Buddha : All living beings had the same fundamental self as me in nature .
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the question and the answer, both helped me a lot in my understanding of the God nature. Venerable Thay is wonderful and always deep in his answers, class, and so on. Evangelina Cortes.
WOW!!
To die ourself is to do away from all sins. And if theres no sin then God will give us not only temporary peace of mind but eternal life with the eternal God. But sin caused sufferings and pains. No matter how good God is, but He keeps seperate from Himself becoz of our sins.
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excellent
self is the cross and blessing we all have to bear...
dont run away from self... try to know self ... once you know yourself ... you will know...
You mean curse?
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"things are merely labelled" Shunyata :D
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Is fire 🔥 good it also is from god
good topics hope i would be able to have this topic here in ireland
I like to think of god like science. Impartial, it just is. Totally blank of judgement. Like science.
With Christianity you are speaking Theology, with Buddhism you are speaking Philosophy. When asked about the existence of God the Buddha said he didn't know, he said he came to end Suffering.
In short words, he said: "Look for your self."
Mary Therese McCool ..... The Buddha never said "he didn't know". You need to make sure "you" don't spread your own ignorance by saying things that aren't true.
Mary Therese McCool , the Buddha didn't say he doesn't know if god exist or not. In one occasion he kept quiet as he knew the answer is not of any help to the person who asked. In Avamtasaka Sutra the Buddha stated universe and everything in it were created by mind and matter, no single creator god. Right upon enlightenment he used the word "house builder" to refer to the creator(s) which created this living body and he pointed it to our own mind again. In another occasion he also rebutted the notion of the existence of an omniscience, omnipotent , all merciful and all powerful god all creator when touching on the existence of good and evil in the world.
Skrilax Rev actually there’s is no real self.
What a load of shit! The monk should not be sitting on the furniture. He should not be looking at the women and the women should be on her knees in respect for the monk. As for the Ma shee, just all wrong and these people are all undermining what Buddhism is all about. The Lord Buddha himself said that there would be a man of great importance and benefit to mankind come to this earth but he did not know his name. It is written in the Darma Parda.
Basically ideas are not real, even the idea of "ideas are not being real" is an idea and too is not real, and so on. No statements can be taken as absolute, even the most obvious ones, even though they seem to work the way you expect. Once we see that no knowledge is worth the effort we get afraid as effort is what gives our lives meaning. We must learn to live without effort and not being afraid of inner emptiness. Of course now that I said this it is now an idea, so don't agree or disagree with me, find out for yourself.
IDK. That sounds pretty depressing to me.
Beware of dualistic thinking which manifest itself in our descriptive (naming of things) language (“Conventinal designation”). The limits of language (Wittgenstein) gives us many wrong notions about Reality. 😃
That one is, is certain, what one is, not so much.
Starts talking at 5:36
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The Cross is horizontal and vertical. Too much thinking going on when I went to church
皆にご幸福をお祈りします。宇宙様：全ての生き物の苦しみを消してお願いします。なんまいだ。
Assisi didn't say there's a 'self'...'Lord, grant that i may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted, understand than to be understood, love than to be loved...for it is by 'self forgetting' (basically saying self doesn't exist anyway) that one finds, by forgiving that one is forgiven and by dying that one awakens to eternal life'...St Francis isn't talking about 'dying' to self but dying to 'old ideas, concepts and perceptions' (thus feelings)...St Francis is in accord with Thich ... Alan Watts covers this topic so well in The Book and many other writings...loves
tis all about 'giving', coming from 'giver instead of getter'...when the woman talked about 'getting' angry or anxious or depressed' she's really 'meaning' she 'contracts' depression (which is a good state preceding growth and further awakening's joys) and she 'contracts' (or creates for 'herself') anxiety etc....om
Why did Francis speak in English and still had the Master talking in English for her? as repeating what she had already said?
@@reversethepolarity5007 exactly
It's good to sum up for better understanding for the audience as well as the questioner. Buddhism knowledge is not a easy topic for most people.
Why does the second woman repeat the questions of the first woman almost verbatim?
to a better understanding for thich
I imagine many in the audience know English as a second language. Even if they were all native speakers, when restating the question, the energy of the sangha listening is intentional and powerful. Can you imagine if you asked a long and thoughtful question, and it was repeated back to you? It indicates understanding and undistracted listening. I find it really beautiful. There is no rush. We can be mindfully with our understanding.
@@TheBytao7mao not for him but for the audience.
I'm a former lay Buddhist. I'm now a de facto atheist. I use mindful meditation, but to me even the notion of religion and especially God ( how many religions besides Christianity say God) are great cause of suffering and egotistical assumptions. As a mindful atheist I fell like I'm more in touch with the path then when I believed in reincarnation and karma and the atman.
Anyone else feel like me?
bluetailskink ..... You're caught in a prison of your own making. Look deeply into Anatta (non-self).
Lord Byron No would have been a simple answer. What Siddhartha taught is made less significant when organized religion is instilled, especially, the vain abrahamic God.
bluetailskink Any notion whatsoever is conventional truth even the words I'm closer to the path is only conventional. Ultimately there is emptiness which is clinged to with the belief of having intrinsic existence. This is but an elaborate illusion. Even those notions cannot touch it.
bluetailskink If you meditate you are not an atheist. Meditation is to keep us bonding with THE MOST HIGH energy/ soul. Buddha taught us we as a human can't replied on devine salvation but to seek our path of salvation.
Simone King so no one meditates besides Buddhists? That's like saying only Christians pray.
The empowering fact of knowing that there is no self, no soul, and no purpose to life is that we can make ourselves who we want to be. We can define our own purpose in life. And we don't have to follow rules in fear of immortal punishments, like the liars in the power would have us.
+Alexander Hall The time for your dreams is now. The cause of suffering is your desire, so get what you want and be happy because no one knows what tomorrow will bring. If you don't like your self than change it. "We are what we think all that we are arises with our thoughts." This is for regular folk.
For Bodhisattvas its a bit different. We kill demons, and catch serial killers. We end plagues by testing cures on ourselves. We end wars by putting down our guns while bullets fly. We smile through holocausts.
See, for us this life is about yall. And the only reason we struggle is because... well I think I just about said it.
SO YOU DAMN WELL BETTER BE FUCKING ENJOYING YOURSELVES! OR WE'RE ALL GONNA BE PISSED!
XOXOXO ME!
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the self
If there is no notion of good or evil then how do we explain RIGHT action..right view etc? Is Right also simply a notion? Tx u 🕉
It's right or wrong, not good or evil. Words like evil, sins, Satan, blessing, grateful, Lord, servant etc are all part of the scam to imitate people.
From my understanding "right" is the best translation we do not have direct translations as we do not have the same vocabulary in English. Skilful and unskillful are whether something harms beings, goes against the precepts or goes against the truth of reality. So it may be more helpful for you to think of it as skilful view, skilful action
@@jayl8811 v helpful, tx u so much 🙏
I have allways been spiritual, why ppl chase happiness, letting self die, to become everything but what they are? do u really thing the way u are made is wrong, dont forget urself to be so holy, thats is only holy in ur mind, ur self is just as importnant as others, but know that u and others are just driffrent prespectives, not the right and wrong, yes some skills are wiser then others but dont forget fear can be the thing that keeps u from danger, accept alle that is, as it is, ur perfect, so stop chasing, and after 40 years I reallice that been in this human form is also a spiritual experincens, dont have to g out of body t be spiritual..think 4 urself allways , stop trusting ithers more then u trust ur own innner guidens! bc that is for u and ur life..follow U and ur path..i love u all, and write this bf u suffer to much, in this chasing and wanthing t be a better person, but that starts whit acepting, teh u allso can acept others..
What do you mean by fear keeps you from danger ? Buddhism don't teach fear although fear is a big factor used by some other religions to scare people of the afterlife.
Miss Francis of Assissi. Where is she now?
Không có phụ đề tiếng Việt nhỉ!!!
Cùng cảm nhận thôi
Hungarian subtitle added :)
She kept talking and talking and talking.....way too long.....hard to follow. But, our dear monk answered very well regardless of the long, rambling, confusing “question”. I fell asleep trying to track this one...........
Repeat mindfully "impatient..impatient"
He was at a different home. It's home though. See how serious these people are about business?
So don’t be caught by the precepts either
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Who is the nun?
I'm so soothed by thich nhat hanhs voice, but I have to disagree with some of his philosophical pronouncements on the nature of reality. The self is clearly a real phenomenon, and to say it isn't is merely to verify for others that you refuse to acknowledge the phenomenon at hand. What is the self? It is a socially generated process that is continuously about the body - that is, its about regulation of feeling and being. From hunger, to thirst, to pride, to shame, to anger, each of us has a unique history of being wired by these feelings, which in turn speaks to a unique history of tensegrity with the environment around you. The self always exists and always interfaces between ourselves and the world, or between ourselves and our self experience. We cannot do or be without concepts. Thich talks as if his nihilistic epistemology isn't about regulating his feeling states as an organism. It is. This particular Buddhist conception relaxes his anxiety about life and reality, so he assumes without justification that its a true conception of things. But the fact is, the field of relations which make something what it is matters as much as first person experience. There is an intrinsic complementary here, and so, true objective understanding in the sense of a coherent and justifiable belief is one which consults first person perspectives with second and third person viewpoints. All together, it is clear that the individual self is a creation of spacetime configurations; and that we must acknowledge its ontological reality whilst recognizing it is subordinate to a totality - being, or God or Buddha consciousness - a unity which the part emerges from and is always intrinsically regulated by.
Omg... Thank you! So many saying they agree! Lol.. How? How is there no self?
I love his teachings but this one I can't agree on. We exist.. Feelings exist.. Choices exists.. Can you explain to me what he may be trying to say?
@@MrsBDatCreole nothing really to explain. When he speaks, he speaks as much to remind himself "what is true" as he intends to communicate something he feels to be meaningful to others.
Yes, obviously, the self is a real phenomenon. It may not be as fundamental as Nature, given that we come from it, or as real as Love, which generates the whole phenomenon of self to begin with, but to say it isn't real or doing anything is exactly equivalent to saying my head, arms or legs aren't real. Only someone who doesn't reflect very deeply would accept that.
Kudos to you for actually questioning this belief.
One more thing. Its so odd how eliminative Buddhist thought can be when its descriptions and codification of psychological processes can oftentimes be very sophisticated. Ontologically, however, this eliminativism has always struck me as irrational and unjustifiable.
I wonder why there is always a middleman that repeats what the guest says? Is there some kind of barrier that is required of Thay?
it's the middleman to give explanation for the audiences
I like most of these vids but not this one! I love my life and I'm grateful for my life! An God IS good! As long as I love All Life an not just myself I have nothing to feel guilty about an don't need to change or fix anything. I AM that I AM!
Seriously..all I hear is people coughing.
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Are you Really sick or are you unable to sit still quietly for 20 seconds?
You've never been to such an even have you? Try it ,
This women mixes buddhist and christian concepts. This mixing can cause confusion in her. Better not to mix christian and buddhist concepts. Just my opinion.
god is good self die wrong practice change ever lasting god is not self me non me truth i you be aware buddha zen teacher freedom strong teacher reality many cloud all clouds in you remove being and non being notion of being right view god good and evil mind bad thing understand mind comsciou Kimball Barrett
Not all suffering is from your own karma or ego. Or are you saying a child abused an molested is getting karma it created an this will teach it a lesson? Ya I'm sure it'll learn alot an deserves that an did it to itself.
Past karma is no longer important regardless of effects or if it's true or not. I think believing that the child has bad karma is still more logical than to think that his abuse is God's plan, don't you think so ?
there is no dieing of self(ego)
ego is a defence mechanism absolutely ingrained within the body, throwing it away you would have to throw away the body, what has to be removed is the identification with the ego
Friends ,
You are requested to have attachment with Buddhism , Buddha's teaching , try to percept the Buddha's teaching through the mind and not only Ear. Put it continue one day you will able to concive the teaching of Buddhism. Do not neglect to hear the Bhante.
Friend , you will not believe that today on 2 April 2019 ,I had attend a Abhiwadan meeting. Bhanteji was discoursing on Anityawad. To my nearer I asked meaning of Anitya , he replied that it means Nitya .
I surprised that a retired teacher can answer like this. So I am writing this messages.thanks.
My nearer
Buddha we Know is a tangible historic person with a specific ideology that is designed to end suffering. But Jesus? which Jesus? Philo and Josephus show us there was more than one. The morality of the New Testament is derivative of older systems.
Daniel Burkett There is only ONE Jesus Christ....... never doubt it.
All is one, there is no competition between the two. The insides of Buddha and the insights of Jesus are two different pieces to the same puzzle. Religions teach people to look at one piece of the puzzle and miss the entire picture
With all due reverence, he talks of no self but it is self that enters the wheel of samsara- isn’t it? If it were not true, then all mankind would go one place or the other. You can’t believe in reincarnation and not believe in the concept of self. You can’t have it both ways. Your sins or your karma follow you.
He must have a different interpretation of the word "being", because the way I understand the word, it doesn't make sense to be and not be at the same time.
does not make sense to you
Her question was more of a long statement trying to sound enlightened. She has much learning left
We all have.
And she is doing her very best to do so. Everybody in his er her own way, at his or her on tempo.
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@@tomasvanverrewegen5739 she isn't because she is self conflicting. She believes EVERYTHING is her God's plan but yet she doubt her god and ask a monk such questions.
Your judgement show you do too
That’s why she’ll never be a zen master
Why?
Never say never, even justin bieber knows that.
this is very confusing
Mediation is necessary to clear the doubts and misunderstanding..
There is simply no way that the mind can be satisfied with any answer. Even if it happens, soon after new questions arise and the cycle never stops.
As BTS_VelvEt_HearTbeaT & Light's said, the only way to "understand" is to investigate on the self.
The mind needs to be left alone on its own.
@@SaithMasu12 I have done this and the mind can go into very dark places but it's better to leave no stone unturned.
Thay, for a buddhist monk, awaken being....I don't see your compassion for that ladie...There is word, then the practice.
The truth is not always beautiful but knowing the truth is the best and only way to get rid of ignorance or darkness which the woman is having. Short pain is better than long term sufferings.
@josephcrsn "fucktards"? He listens intently and answers intently. As a serious Zen master would .
Bad is just bad cos you percieve it as bad
IDK....Killing someone isn't bad?
I got tired of waiting for the Master to speak. Question is too long.
Saint Joy ........ My assumed "self " got tired of waiting too and irritation started to arise. Too much talking, too much confusion in this lady's mind.
have compassion and patience my friend.
You can have Buddhism. I will stick with Jesus.
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Lawrence Jones -- In Buddhism is that there is not a distinction from the Buddha and the Christ. They are one in the same.
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Lawrence Jones -- A book on Buddhism? There are many schools of Buddhism--and they don't really have a set book, such as the Bible, but they have what they call "dharma", which referrers to the teachings of the Buddah. Are you looking to understand the main philosophies?
And the thing with Buddhism is--there is no Creator-God figure. It's a philosophy that can be practiced with Christianity, if you so desire. (You will find many of the teachings almost identical to the main teachings of Christ). In fact, there is a church called the Self Realization Fellowship that is a hybrid of Buddhism and Christianity. I know many members of this church. www.yogananda-srf.org/Aims_and_Ideals.aspx#.VXJ8yM9Viko
If you make your question more specific, maybe I can answer it better. I'm no expert on Buddhism--I am a secular humanist with an interest in philosophy.
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