Is Your Spiritual Path the Most Important Thing in Your Life?
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- In this video, Tahlia shares her story of finding a hidden core belief left over from her time as a Tibetan Buddhist. She tells how, though seemingly innocuous and useful for it time, the belief negatively impacted her life after leaving.
Great wisdom. Thanks.
Im so glad I found you! Beste advice for the lost souls.
Your channel is so relevant, filled with logic and common sense. I think it needs to become more well-known, because it’s speaking about the heart of Buddhist non-sectarian practice.
Happy to find your channel.
Refreshing.
Thanks for this thought provoking video. I see my spiritual path in the underlying intentions that I bring to whatever I'm doing, whether at work or with family, or whatever. No one can sell me my spiritual path. I can get ideas from various people or teachings, but it's up to me to create what I will out of it.
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Not just money, but for ego. The ego that tells them they are special, they are wise, they are teachers.
18:04 Yep... Let it go :) Don't be too attached that you actually unable to move on and live in different ways. Ways that actually you learn new things in life, new ways of being.
Thank you
The spiritual path is the most important thing in your life. But we shouldn't be so narrow in what our spiritual path actually is, genuine care for yourself of any kind can be just as spiritual as sitting down and reciting some mantra. In fact the idea that only sitting down and meditating or reading a buddhist text is furthering your spiritual development is just wrong. If you are stressed out hitting the gym or just taking a few days off to rest or divorcing someone who is not good for you is good for your spiritual development.
So anything that enables you to be more open, more loving and better able to cope with what life is throwing at you is good for your spiritual development.
@petrairene All examples you give have to do with living a wise life. What do you still need spirituality or religion for? While religion is based on improbable assumptions without any evidence. So cherish the wisdom you've developed and don't be naive. Protect yourself from the misconduct Tahlia reports about on this channel.
@@markmark4298 Misconduct is simply always possible in organised religion. Where is the difference between a "wise life" and spirituality?
@@petrairene I find many spiritual students more self-real and more wise than their leaders. But these students do not realize this themselves. They assume that their leaders are "wisdom experts."
What you learn in religious / spiritual practice is to accept statements about reality as factually true and morally good, without judging them critically.
Many fundamental beliefs in spirituality are quite 'exotic'. I find the existence of a divine energy, reincarnation, karma, having a divine purpose in life or the existence of an afterlife extreme assumptions. What evidence is there and what entitles teachers to make such bold statements? In my opinion, spiritual and religious views create an unrealistic (often childish and magical) view of reality.
(1) The power imbalance between teacher and student, (2) the discouragement from critically evaluating claims, and (3) the formation of an (in my opinion) inadequate outlook on life, leave students vulnerable to deception and mistreatment.
All three are not necessary for one who lives a wise life without spiritual organization. Why is self-study and discussing wise ways of living with friends not enough?
I am reminded of the analogy of the raft
Amazing!!!
Would like to love someone who will love me as much as I would love them ❤️
It follows the typical Maslow's hierarchy of needs. 'Altruism' which is likened to 'Spirituality' cannot exist (in that example) unless the lower levels are met. However, that is very very dualistic. Spirituality is just as much a part of needing food and shelter as any other part. Once we realize that everything is a spiritual lesson or aspect. Rather than trying to get people to 'pay' (with time or money) for some "secret" teachings. Make everything sacred and there you go. Free spirituality.
Oh and by the way, where did you get the idea that doing good for others is not part of the spiritual path. I mean, you probably did take the bodhisattva vow at some time, didn't you? Now ideally that would include teaching the path to enlightenment to others, but feeding and clothing the poor, consoling the suffering, in short helping people to a better worldly life also totally qualifies as bodhisattva activity because it gives people back the notion that there is good out there, that they are not left alone. And in it's most basic form, that is giving people refuge.
Because this idea of "teaching others" can be very ego driven. It is also seems controlling to tell others how to be. I am not a Buddhist, I believe that people need mental health and psychologists or other trained professionals. With that, they can heal and be better what ever religion they want to practice. If someone is healed or have awareness what should be healed and working hard on those issues they can have a more fulfilling life with much less suffering.
I know. Psychology is not perfect. I know, many psychologists are less than perfect. At least they are not "gurus" and not "supernatural beings". So you experience and move on. You are a grown person and you take actions into your own hands. These gurus are not saints and their knowledge is also limited. But you have to look at them from a different angle. Not from your meditation mat to a podium towards a guru people like to believe is a "super human".
For me, right now, Jung is pretty cool. And I know some others who are cool and have knowledge. But they are human with flaws and that is it. These gurus are not more wise or special.
@@tahwsisiht Yeah, but the psychologist might also tell the client how to behave and how to be. And a psychotherapist might also be a very ego driven individual.
Honestly, this video shows that you never actually understood what the Tibetan dharma is really about and that the Rigpa events you attended didn't clarify your misunderstandings. The teachings should after you have the basics enable you to practice on your own and where you are/choose to be to practice. Particularly once you are able to do guru yoga that will give you the independence from constantly attending events and getting new input because it's the practice that will gain you the insight that your mind is inseperable from the guru, no matter where you are. Not constantly depending on the physical presence of the guru to progress is the point of the whole exercise. I mean, a spiritual practice that only works as long as you are sitting in your course or under the nose of the guru is useless from the buddhist pov.
I think she got better than that. Actually that is what she is trying to explain, although she doesn't say 'better" and probably would not say. Maybe "over" is a more fitting word. Over it. I would say better. It is also a letting go and also a growing experience of life. I don't think it is necessary to say that she "understood or not the teachings", it is more like : she is living with the expense she had in her life, including being part of that community for 20 years. I like that. I think it is more wisdom that being stuck in a "reality" that is strongly protected from other influences of "other realities". Quantum what some says is the "ultimate reality". But we are here for the experiment. The ultimate will be there once you die. Why not experience what is here? I do think and have my own "ideas" why we are here, and I think she is doing it much better than her previous "gurus" and community who are stuck and unable to see it.
Buddhist pov. But exactly: Buddhist pov. It is a pov. Life is more than Buddhist pov. There are many pov. They may all have a point.
are they 2 different things?
The motives of the students create the cult, and a not-loving/wise "guru" will use the students as his slaves.
My goodness you have totaly wrongly understood all what is about Buddha's teaching and path...
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I am not a Buddhist and will never be.
I believe in psychology and neuro science. Cuts through many of these "beliefs and teachings and spiritual bypassing".
I don't know any perfect person. I know many with flaws. I found deeply flawed ones that love the idea of being "perfect"
No Buddhism for me .
12:17 if I am looking at some teachers who are supposed to be enlightened, I got shivers. It doesn't look loving, it doesn't look wise, it looks inflated and "not being attached" is not really "charming" for me. I don't even understand that why it is so hard to believe that life can have enough love and meaning to be ok to reborn. At least the modern ages. Where we have human rights and at a country where we have self determination If we cut out unnecessary suffering, the ones that one human being causes to an other, life worth its ups and downs. I went through a lot, it wasn't the "natural, life created problems" that was traumatizing. It was people. Selfish, controlling, manipulating, two faced, heartless people. People without dignity. People who actually "immensely shrunk" my previously exciting love. That is the problem. These things were unnecessary suffering.
I can't wait to reborn, because there are so many things I would love to experience. One is love. Mature, healthy and deep love that I receive, not just give. A mutual, fair and trustful love. With its ups and downs. I also would love to reborn where I can learn more about life and its gems. There is so much to learn and it is exciting. I wish I will reborn with some ability to some kind of art, but at least with appreciation of it.
Please Universe, can I have a "good enough" family and no poverty next time with "good enough" self determination? With gratitude,
Me
(Friends are important, but 1 or two are enough if they are real and their personalities include fairness, goodness and being able to be deeply attached friends. I love LOVE attachments! Good and healthy attachments. Even if they hurt when you lose the person or pet or whatsoever. I am more than willing to pay for attachments if they are loving. Not abusive or exploitative attachments. I know those. They suck. That is my lesson to learn and leave those who can't be people with responsibility to others. I hope I learned it and next time I will remember.... Not to waste my life on those who are unworthy to trust and respect.)
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13:48 I think the now carries the future and if I say that being only in the now is the most important, it can be understood that even doing things in the now for the future in mind is not important. I don't think it is positive. I think living with the future in mind is very important. Especially as a member of the human species and with the responsibility for next generations. With the power over our actions as humans, not being animals (animals can only be living in the now with imprinted actions for their future and next generations without self determination) we humans can really screw things up. We do have to make sure the future is "included in our now".
Sacrifice is "not living in the now" . Doing things for future can be hard in the "now", AND very important.
Being able to choose a day or two a week to "being completely in the now" is an incredible gift. How many generations, how many people had no chance to do that. How many generations had to survive almost daily.... Mostly who had children. IF they were rightly attached.