The wise words of a Guru warms my heart up.

[The man in the mountainParticipant 4102]

I strongly recommend the book “inner engineering A Yogi’s guide to joy Sadhguru”, understanding that most of our problems, illusions and delusions start from within, everlasting happiness cannot be found in this world, Only false happiness when you buy a car or a house, then later in life something terrible happens to THAT something that brought you fake happiness, then suffering ramps up all over again.

Learning Detachment, Learning to project from inside out, not the other way and learning to live with contentment, many men think this is a sign of weakness or that conforming to life can be considered to be a sign that you are a beta male, I don’t agree with notion that we have to measure happiness with success, since everything that goes up MUST come down someday.

My personal story-

My father was a millionaire, hes brother a bum, hes brother built a house for himself with hes own two hands and one for hes mother right in front of hes and was content, while my father had 15 children, many bad divorces, went to jail three times and now has nothing to hes own damn name after he had visited 48 different countries, hes brother still has the same two houses and lives the same life style that he always had, i still talk to him and we have very deep conversations, hes like the father my very own father never was to me.

Moral of the Story, even if you HAVE stuff try at least to be happy, Krishna himself said that hell has three gates “Greed, lust and anger” he was f~~~ing right.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Good post man! I’m not a Buddhist but I get it!

[RemovedParticipant 4676]

Reminds me a lot of what IRuleMe has been saying a lot lately. “The source of your misery is yourself.” It is true. Some things we cannot let go, and that misery drags us down: the loss of a loved one, the betrayal of trust, the theft of the rewards of your accomplishments (house, car, money…). Each of these carry a level of weight, and as time passes that weight decreases, but it never is gone completely, unless you can truly and completely let go of the pain from inside. Which again comes to, “the source of your misery is yourself.”

Fantastic post, and very deep. I am a Christian by faith, but by practice, I am finding myself looking more towards the Buddhist way of life.

[The man in the mountainParticipant 4102]

Removed wrote:

Fantastic post, and very deep. I am a Christian by faith, but by practice, I am finding myself looking more towards the Buddhist way of life.

Then this quote is for you Brother Uly are you ready?

“Don’t use Buddhism to become a Buddhist, use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already”-HH Dalai Lama.

There are books like “From Buddha to jesus” and “Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian” that not only make a connection on both religions for their deep level of compassion (almost blind) and inner understanding, but also the message both of them had to give us that was important and did sound rather familiar.

I think the most beautiful thing is to study multiple religions and seeing them as philosophies and NOT something to kill for, if a religion is worth you killing another sentient being for, please start with yourself, that’s another quote i found searching online hahaha.

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Removed wrote:

Reminds me a lot of what IRuleMe has been saying a lot lately. “The source of your misery is yourself.” It is true. Some things we cannot let go, and that misery drags us down: the loss of a loved one, the betrayal of trust, the theft of the rewards of your accomplishments (house, car, money…). Each of these carry a level of weight, and as time passes that weight decreases, but it never is gone completely, unless you can truly and completely let go of the pain from inside. Which again comes to, “the source of your misery is yourself.”

Fantastic post, and very deep. I am a Christian by faith, but by practice, I am finding myself looking more towards the Buddhist way of life.

You CAN let them go, that’s the thing. A person CHOOSES to suffer. You can either decide to not be burdened by it any longer, or you can hold onto it like a cloak. A drunk can decide either to quit cold turkey, or take another drink tomorrow. He has within him that choice. But choice comes with self realization. Until you recognize it’s a CHOICE, then the only thing it is, is an EXCUSE. And an excuse is nothing more than a crutch.

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

If it doesn’t come with a blow job I will read no book.

Im tired of learning, reading, no f~~~s given.

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

@maninthemountain

Ate you aware of Ramakrishna? I’m just about to read about him. Interesting fellow from the basic overview I learnt about his teaching from reading elsewhere. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts about him. Cheers

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

@maninthemountain

Are you aware of Ramakrishna? I’m just about to read about him. Interesting fellow from the basic overview I learnt about his teaching from reading elsewhere. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts about him. Cheers

[The man in the mountainParticipant 4102]

Cú Chulainn wrote:

@maninthemountain

Are you aware of Ramakrishna? I’m just about to read about him. Interesting fellow from the basic overview I learnt about his teaching from reading elsewhere. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts about him. Cheers

Hes work is quite outstanding, i didn’t know this man existed, thank you for bringing that up, here’s something to take from what he taught.

-God dwells in all people but the manifestation of this inner Divinity varies from person to person. In saintly people there is greater manifestation of God. Women are special manifestations of Divine Mother of the Universe, and so are to be treated with respect.

Nikola Tesla once said that “The gift of mental power comes from GOD, divine being, and if we concentrate our minds on that TRUTH, we become in TUNE with this great power”.

Now we see how science and the eastern religions are more and more understanding one and another, Sadhguru describes the intellect as a cutting knife, it cuts through the darkness of existence, it takes apart things to help you understand them better, but intellect is just a tool out of many that you currently have, it must not rule every aspect of your life, there are things of this world that intellect remains frozen of action, things that are hard or impossible to understand such as ETHER or BLACK matter.

Everything is just emptiness, meditate on emptiness once and you will see how much it changes you from within, you no longer have the restless “self” dancing in you and causing you anxiety, the anxiety goes once you realize that you are one with everything and not contained to your limited observable space.

I recommend lamrim mediations, they are quite good!.

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

I’ll look into it, thanks. Sorry about the double post – android phones huh.

Your mention of the Dalai Lama is excellent. I read it before. I think he was addressing the tendency for many westerners to throw themselves into ancient eastern religions, and perhaps some people did overdo it and did, in certain places, become pseudo Hindu or Buddhist, and used these new (to them) spiritualities as an excuse to get out of it, like the hippies did.

I also believe many, like yourself, are genuine seekers, and I respect that.
The Dalai Lama said there are many ways to enlightenment, and people should seek out paths in their own traditions before trying ideas from cultures far from home. If they find that isn’t working then seek a new path, or LOOK WITHIN, to see if that’s where the truth really lies. And of course it does. This can work for for those outside religious tradition too.

I travelled in Nepal, Tibet, Xinjiang and met many monks and saw wonderful monasteries and places of pilgrimage, including enduring (best way to explain it) the Mt. Kailash Kora. At the time I was troubled with working in Iraq, and took time out to travel to these mystical places, in that age old cliche – to find myself. I also could afford it and wanted to see the Asia that I’d admired since boyhood, through looking at atlases and reading Kipling etc.

At the time my own Christian faith was at an all time low, and I was thoroughly blue pilled. I went there with an open mind and, if I’m truthful, to see if the religions of these ancient lands could give me more comfort than my own lapsed Christianity. I admired the easy going simplicity of the Mahayana Buddhist monks, and the devotion and asceticism of the perambulating pilgrims on Kailash, prostrating their way around a mountain trail that took me nearly three days to trek, and I was blowing out my arse doing it. A feat at that altitude.

But it still felt foreign to me, I was an outsider, an admiring one, but their way wasn’t mine. It wasn’t until I’d climbed to Annapurna base camp and took in the sheer Majesty of the sanctuary of gigantic peaks that I felt a true presence of God. My God, here in the high Himalaya. Its something I’ll never forget.

Each religion has striking similarities, mystics and teachers. If you hide the names the message is the same. Ramakrishna understood this, as does the Dalai Lama. The way is the way, it leads to the same place.

Your input on this forum is much appreciated brother, thanks.

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