'Simple question': How are you?

[Samana Johann]

Thinking that it has got another time astray, focusing on low socialising and less effort to drop into mindfulness, Atma thinks that even such deep questions like "how are you" do not give any one release here. What ever you may be after, bonds or release depends on proper attention and choices for such.

"How do you do?"

 

[sayak83]

He isn't nor isn't he not.

Ok. I know the idea. You don't have to sound so ridiculously mysterious. Buddha spoke clearly...though are you from the Zen lineage. They have a tendency towards needless wordplay.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Could you answer truthful here, without stress here or later because of it: "How are you?, "How is it?"

I am OK. It is good.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Atma thinks...

No.

 

[Samana Johann]

No.

Right, he, Atma*, my person, knows.

(*usual polite third person adressing of ones person by monks when speaking with householders, here in Cambodia, a Brahmanic relict mixed with usual kind speech)

 

[Sunstone]

I eat, I sleep, I laugh, I work. It's wonderful.

 

[Samana Johann]

I eat, I sleep, I laugh, I work. It's wonderful.

A lot of things householder Sunstone can do right now, may he/she not miss to ask "how am I", "how do I do" in between, to get not lost.

 

[Sunstone]

A lot of things householder Sunstone can do right now, may he/she not miss to ask "how am I", "how do I do" in between, to get not lost.

I'm afraid you lost me. Could you please straighten out your logic and try again.

 

[Samana Johann]

I'm afraid you lost me. Could you please straighten out your logic and try again.

Certain, if one would be afraid to lose something, someone, one could not easy be able to answer rightly on "how are you?", "'how' do you do?", householder Sunstone. It's all about having got lost of what should be observed for a good.

 

[Aupmanyav]

(*usual polite third person adressing of ones person by monks when speaking with householders, here in Cambodia, a Brahmanic relict mixed with usual kind speech)

Yeah, 'atma' is used in two senses, 'soul' and 'self' (generally with the sense that it has no atta, just a temporary phenomenon) in Hindu usage. And it is used in the third-person sense. They would generally say 'this atma'. Even in scriptures, they would say 'Ayamatma Brahman' (This 'self' is Brahman - 's' being in lower case).

If you ask a Indian mendicant (Hindu, Muslim or Sikh) about his name, he may say "The Name is for God only, 'this self' is known as 'so-and-so'."

If someone lives in the present, then, the question "How are you" does not arise, since there is no past to compare with. In that case, you just are as you are.

Brahman Samana Johann, correct me where I am wrong.

 

[Samana Johann]

That's being a theological-concept approach Brahman @Aupmanyav . As to correct: not the proper time and circumstances here for now.

 

[HolyHolyHolyEvil]

Actually I really am 74 which I know is utterly shocking to anyone under 50.

After all, I'm supposed to be wearing Depends and unable to use my cell phone let alone a computer or even remember how to put on my pants.

A lifetime of having to learn new technologies every few years working in computer jobs has kept my brain flexible. Now an active mental regime of retirement volunteering including use of my IT skills keeps my brain flexible and able to learn.

And good genes have kept my body in decent shape albeit not as good shape as I used to enjoy. Now I'm relying on various classes including Tai Chi to help retain and even regain a bit of what I lost due to age.

I have a good friend who is 82. I'm 43. He's just a regular person. We talk about his age sometimes but I believe he will live forever because he's got such an ageless personality. He's fully able-bodied and able-minded.

 

[Samana Johann]

And how are you, householder @HolyHolyHolyEvil, to come to the topic?

 

[HolyHolyHolyEvil]

And how are you, householder @HolyHolyHolyEvil, to come to the topic?

I'm coping with unholy Hell at the moment.

 

[Samana Johann]

I'm coping with unholy Hell at the moment.

What keeps him from letting go when already seeing? It's not his, not something that can not be abound.

 

[HolyHolyHolyEvil]

What keeps him from letting go when already seeing? It's not his, not something that can not be abound.

Excellent. I hadn't thought of it from that angle.

I have called out repeatedly for years to be liberated and set free. Then this song was born and I died by how too accurately this incredible woman was singing for me,

 

[Samana Johann]

Excellent. I hadn't thought of it from that angle.

I have called out repeatedly for years to be liberated and set free. Then this song was born and I died by how too accurately this incredible woman was singing for me,

My person does not listen to music and as householder might have experienced music, for the most, gives food to either greed, hatred of to get lost. So it's a good practice, the practice of the Arahats and holly people and those follow toward peace, to abstain from such short lasting pleasures which do nothing good, and to be able to say "I am doing well" all the time.

Its full moon Uposatha today, by the way, a perfect day for a change.

 

[HolyHolyHolyEvil]

My person does not listen to music and as householder might have experienced music, for the most, gives food to either greed, hatred of to get lost. So it's a good practice, the practice of the Arahats and holly people and those follow toward peace, to abstain from such short lasting pleasures which do nothing good, and to be able to say "I am doing well" all the time.

Its full moon Uposatha today, by the way, a perfect day for a change.

Yes, thank you for the full moon reminder.

Too late for me in regard to music. I'm an old, broken jukebox full of song.

 

[Samana Johann]

Yes, thank you for the full moon reminder.

Too late for me in regard to music. I'm an old, broken jukebox full of song.

Don't say so. How ever old, tendencies and habits are not ones own, need food, and deprived they die, good and bad, just give it a try and become more independent and "I do fine".

My person used to run hardrock clubs, made Dj..., with much success, leading pubs, next to other leading undertakings. Don't say that it is not possible. And when got in touch with refines Sublime happiness as result, no wish to go back at all, so such raw and primitive food of sensuality.

Devotion and worshiping of low things does not lead to liberation but one becomes more and more slave of ones desires, un-free, restless and does many bad things if not pushing the break at times, sooner or later.

 

[Aupmanyav]

We talk about his age sometimes but I believe he will live forever because he's got such an ageless personality.

He would be the eighth person to be so. Hinduism already has seven immortals.

I'm coping with unholy Hell at the moment.

Krishna said:
"Mātrā-sparśah tu kaunteya, śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ;
āgamāpāyinah anityah, tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata." BhagawadGita 2.14
(O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course of time, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.)