What do we look for?

[Spirit of Light]

Is the Buddha looking for the end of this?

Yes if you look at the truth behind why it happend, Buddhas teaching does give answer to how things like that can be avoided. But it is the human beings who must end the slavery

 

[savagewind]

Answers about the past, a hope for the future and the values and courage necessary to be a good human being in the present.

I understand a search for answers. But, I don't understand why you say "a search for hope". Isn't it hope that you get for being a Jehovah's Witness? Scripture says for value and courage you need just ask. Do I not know what to search means?

It sounds like to me that you do not trust Jehovah to give you those things.

 

[Spirit of Light]

I understand a search for answers. But, I don't understand why you say "a search for hope". Isn't it hope that you get for being a Jehovah's Witness? Scripture says for value and courage you need just ask. Do I not know what to search means?

It sounds like to me that you do not trust Jehovah to give you those things.

I follow Buddha Sakyaunis teaching (buddhism) and even i do not reject that Jehovah may exist ,that is not the teaching i follow.

 

[Vee]

It sounds like to me that you do not trust Jehovah to give you those things.

I have no idea where you got that from but I'm pretty sure it wasn't from something I said. Don't worry, Jehovah gives me what I need, and sometimes even more than I deserve.

 

[BSM1]

I, too, searched for the answers to the standard spiritual questions. However, after years of asking why is this this, and that that, I found (like many have according to the posts so far) that this is sometimes that, while that is sometimes this, and often they are neither, or both. Now I no longer search for the answers, I simply search for the right question to ask.

 

[Shantanu]

I enjoy every moment when i am here as a human being, and i do not see it as a escape, but liberation from reincarnation. a moment of bliss can be reach when on earth, but the bliss i am about to discover can not be held in the physical realm

 

[Shantanu]

I think the difference is less in the experience of God than it is the extrapolation itself.

True. There is no proof of God's existence, but I try to ensure that if there was a God in existence I have taken all the steps necessary to have consulted Him each step of the way in the path of satya-advaita. Where truth is concerned I do not take any chances.

 

[savagewind]

I have no idea where you got that from but I'm pretty sure it wasn't from something I said. Don't worry, Jehovah gives me what I need, and sometimes even more than I deserve.

To search for something means you do not have it.

 

[savagewind]

In our spiritual practice we are in search for something, But this can be different from teaching to teaching.
What do you search for in your practice?

Answers about the past, a hope for the future and the values and courage necessary to be a good human being in the present.

 

[SalixIncendium]

To search for something means you do not have it.

Not necessarily true. I may have my glasses all of the time, but that doesn't mean that I don't occasionally find myself searching for them when I want to put them on.

 

[savagewind]

Not necessarily true. I may have my glasses all of the time, but that doesn't mean that I don't occasionally find myself searching for them when I want to put them on.

 

[Spirit of Light]

The search is within The truth is always right infront of us, But we must search our selfs to let go of all attachments that stop us from seeing the truth

 

[Windwalker]

the bliss i am about to discover can not be held in the physical realm

Why do you say that? Doesn't the Divine Perfection radiate in and through every living thing? Isn't creation the expression of the Divine, inseparable from its Reality? Isn't Satchitananda the experience of the human experiencing Enlightenment?

 

[Spirit of Light]

Why do you say that? Doesn't the Divine Perfection radiate in and through every living thing? Isn't creation the expression of the Divine, inseparable from its Reality? Isn't Satchitananda the experience of the human experiencing Enlightenment?

The physical world is not the true existence seen from a buddhistic view. The true life is non physical life, because human realm is full of suffering, and according to buddhist teaching we must let go od all human attachments to realise the truth. and when we realise enlightenment we no longer need the physical body

 

[SalixIncendium]

The physical world is not the true existence seen from a buddhistic view. The true life is non physical life, because human realm is full of suffering, and according to buddhist teaching we must let go od all human attachments to realise the truth. and when we realise enlightenment we no longer need the physical body

Are you sure you're a Buddhist and not an Advaitin?

 

[Spirit of Light]

Are you sure you're a Buddhist and not an Advaitin?

I am a cultivator of the truth with teachings from Buddhism
But i do know my view does not cling to directly the written teachings of buddhism, my path lead me to somewhat different view, and that is not wrong according to buddha

 

[BSM1]

I am a cultivator of the truth with teachings from Buddhism
But i do know my view does not cling to directly the written teachings of buddhism, my path lead me to somewhat different view, and that is not wrong according to buddha

Buddhism, like any mindset, is just the vehicle; you are the one that steers it in the direction you want it to go.

 

[Spirit of Light]

Buddhism, like any mindset, is just the vehicle; you are the one that steers it in the direction you want it to go.

That is very true

 

[Windwalker]

The physical world is not the true existence seen from a buddhistic view. The true life is non physical life, because human realm is full of suffering, and according to buddhist teaching we must let go od all human attachments to realise the truth. and when we realise enlightenment we no longer need the physical body

It depends on which strain of Buddhism you are looking at. Tantric practices found in the 3rd turning of the Wheel of Dharma, such as in Tibetan Buddhism, very much teaches that nonduality is not "other" to form. One finds Emptiness through and within form, not by escaping it. Nirguna pointed this out that to say that only Nirvana is real, is a form of subtle duality, which divides what is real and what is not.

"Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form."

Another similar saying can be found in Sri Ramana Maharshi who said,

The world is illusory;
Brahman alone is real;
Brahman is the world

And if you wish to add some Christian mystical expression of that in here referring to Jesus, "In him dwells the fullness of the godhead bodily". It's very tantric in this way, that all humans have the Divine Reality within their being, and can experience this "incarnation" within themselves. Experientially, this is true.

 

[Spirit of Light]

It depends on which strain of Buddhism you are looking at. Tantric practices found in the 3rd turning of the Wheel of Dharma, such as in Tibetan Buddhism, very much teaches that nonduality is not "other" to form. One finds Emptiness through and within form, not by escaping it. Nirguna pointed this out that to say that only Nirvana is real, is a form of subtle duality, which divides what is real and what is not.

"Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form."

Another similar saying can be found in Sri Ramana Maharshi who said,

The world is illusory;
Brahman alone is real;
Brahman is the world

And if you wish to add some Christian mystical expression of that in here referring to Jesus, "In him dwells the fullness of the godhead bodily". It's very tantric in this way, that all humans have the Divine Reality within their being, and can experience this "incarnation" within themselves. Experientially, this is true.

My answers are always based in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism, But yes some of my answers will be somewhat different then Book read theravada.

Because there are two ways to learn the dharma, the study only of scripture and the study of the scripture but also practicing the dharma in life. so one combine the two.
Those who follow only the scripture will gain little wisdom but those who cultivate both the scripture but also the way of life will gain deeper wisdom,