Is God A Thing?

last SG · 2006-06-22T18:38:00+00:00

The 64 verses are excellent interpretation of what? Verse Three If things were 'true' as fools imagine, why not accept liberation as tantamount (i.e. equiv...

neutral_onliner SG

u don 'anyhow anyhow' leh Cool

Thusness SG

Yes Longchen,

the thought is hypnotic, it bonds and the entire world changes with that thought. It is in the flesh, the blood, the cell. Everything seems different. Let us be thoroughly aware and feel the full power of the bond.

Thusness SG

This is an interesting topic and since it is allowed to discuss more about God in a Buddhism forum, I would like to talk a little more about the experience of 'AMness" in all things. Razz

Like a river flowing into the ocean, the self dissolves into nothingness. When a practitioner becomes thoroughly clear about the illusionary nature of the individuality, subject-object division does not take place. A person experiencing AMness will find AMness in everything. What is it like?

Being free individuality -- coming and going, life and death, all phenomenon merely pop in and out from the background of the AMness. The AMness is not experienced as an entity residing anywhere, neither within nor without; rather it is experienced as the ground reality for all phenomenon to take place. Even the moment of subsiding (death), the yogi is thoroughly authenticated with that reality; experiencing the Real as clear as it can be. We cannot lose that AMness; rather all things can only dissolve and re-emerges from it. The AMness has not moved, there is no coming and going. This "AMness" is God. Smile

An Eternal Now SG

I see.. thanks for sharing Smile

casino_king SG

With this kind of attitute, how you expect to progress?

casino_king SG

You are close, if I do not sound too arrogant for saying that. You are missing something though. What is it that you are missing?

An Eternal Now SG

Dont think he missed anything. Why dont you say what YOU think he missed? Wink

casino_king SG

It is pointless to always cut and paste. To get answers from other people. The best tradition of Buddhism is that everyone works it out for themselves. Everyone "realised" it for themselves.

An Eternal Now SG

Question

Wat cut and paste. He wrote it himself what.

U dunnu how to write then dun 'anyhow' 'anyhow' say la. Laughing

Thusness SG

Yes casino_king,

Unless you tell me what is the doctrine of anatta about and how does emptiness step in Smile

Thusness SG

Only for Longchen. Smile

casino_king SG

Oh I don't know about the doctrine of anatta... wil find out about it and get back to you. I come from "the other side" if you know what I mean. I like to think of myself as having crossed over to the other side, am now looking back at the people trying to cross over, without sounding too arrogant, using different methods like Buddhism or Hinduism or Christianity... and so on.

An Eternal Now SG

o ok Laughing

An Eternal Now SG

If u 'come from the other side' it means u are enlightened? care to share what you realised about the ultimate reality? Laughing

casino_king SG

Anatta
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Buddhist term Anatman (Sanskrit) or Anatta (Pali) is an adjective that specifies the absence of a supposedly permanent and unchanging self or soul in any one of the psycho-physical (namo-rupa) constituents of empirical existence; eg. "none of these skandhas are my Soul, are anatta (non-Self)". What is normally thought of as the "Self" is in fact an agglomeration of constantly changing physical and mental constituents ("skandhas" ) which give rise to unhappiness if clung to as though this temporary assemblage formed some kind of immutable and enduring Soul ("atman" ).

Thusness SG

Not yet. "I am who I am" is still not enough. Smile

casino_king SG

Anatta or soul-lessness

This Buddhist doctrine of rebirth should be distinguished from the theory of reincarnation which implies the transmigration of a soul and its invariable material rebirth. Buddhism denies the existence of an unchanging or eternal soul created by a God or emanating from a Divine Essence (Paramatma).

If the immortal soul, which is supposed to be the essence of man, is eternal, there cannot be either a rise or a fall. Besides one cannot understand why "different souls are so variously constituted at the outset."

"It should be said," writes Bertrand Russell, "that the old distinction between soul and body has evaporated quite as much because 'matter' has lost its solidity as mind has lost its spirituality. Psychology is just beginning to be scientific. In the present state of psychology belief in immortality can at any rate claim no support from science."

from: http://www.buddhanet.net/nutshell09.htm

casino_king SG

Anatta - The Teaching on Not-Self
Who am I?
One of the most challenging teachings of Buddhism is that relating to the idea of 'not-self' or anatta. Whereas both Christianity and Islam have the notion of an individual soul, and whereas Hinduism has the idea of atman, Buddhism offers a different perspective altogether. Buddhism argues that there is no such thing as a permanent self or soul, a very difficult notion to grasp, even on a conceptual level, let alone realizing it experientially. But if there is no such thing as a permanent self or soul, then the obvious question is - who is this person that eats, drinks, breathes, thinks, forms relationships and has a career? Who am I?

from: buddhism.about.com/library/weekly/aa070702a.htm

casino_king SG

Correct, not enough. I am not in existence is also not enough. Who is Buddha? The Buddha who is passed away from earth?

simplified SG

if one is a student and a teacher..
then where does God resides?

before askin what is God..
what does one expects from a God in the first place?

anytakers care to shed some light?

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