09-23-2011, 12:03 AM
Sacateca wrote:I'm
fully ready to be corrected by you intelligent in this forum. I come
here fully ready to change my stance on any issue I have raised. If you
are as well then you are my Spiritual equals. If not then, by reason of
the truth, you are my Spiritual inferiors, period. So far, I have to
admit that most of you who post in this forum are extremely ignorant.
Your posts don't teach me anything. I come here to learn. Most of you,
apparently, come here to 'fart' through your fingers. Oh well.... You
obviously have no idea just how much effort it takes for me to restrain
my insults and you don't care, but you are always ready to complain if I
slip up, right losers?
Comparing myself to others can very easily become an ego trap for me -- and I strongly suspect that the same is true for others. Instead, I prefer to compare myself with the way I was five minutes ago. Have I learned anything? If not, why not?
Originally bardo referred only to the period between one life and the next, and this is still its normal meaning when it is mentioned without any qualification. There was considerable dispute over this theory during the early centuries of Buddhism, with one side arguing that rebirth (or conception) follows immediately after death, and the other saying that there must be an interval between the two. With the rise of mahayana, belief in a transitional period prevailed. Later Buddhism expanded the whole concept to distinguish six or more similar states, covering the whole cycle of life, death, and rebirth. But it can also be interpreted as any transitional experience, any state that lies between two other states. Its original meaning, the experience of being between death and rebirth, is the prototype of the bardo experience, while the six traditional bardos show how the essential qualities of that experience are also present in other transitional periods. By refining even further the understanding of the essence of bardo, it can then be applied to every moment of existence. The present moment, the now, is a continual bardo, always suspended between the past and the future.
fully ready to be corrected by you intelligent in this forum. I come
here fully ready to change my stance on any issue I have raised. If you
are as well then you are my Spiritual equals. If not then, by reason of
the truth, you are my Spiritual inferiors, period. So far, I have to
admit that most of you who post in this forum are extremely ignorant.
Your posts don't teach me anything. I come here to learn. Most of you,
apparently, come here to 'fart' through your fingers. Oh well.... You
obviously have no idea just how much effort it takes for me to restrain
my insults and you don't care, but you are always ready to complain if I
slip up, right losers?
Comparing myself to others can very easily become an ego trap for me -- and I strongly suspect that the same is true for others. Instead, I prefer to compare myself with the way I was five minutes ago. Have I learned anything? If not, why not?
Originally bardo referred only to the period between one life and the next, and this is still its normal meaning when it is mentioned without any qualification. There was considerable dispute over this theory during the early centuries of Buddhism, with one side arguing that rebirth (or conception) follows immediately after death, and the other saying that there must be an interval between the two. With the rise of mahayana, belief in a transitional period prevailed. Later Buddhism expanded the whole concept to distinguish six or more similar states, covering the whole cycle of life, death, and rebirth. But it can also be interpreted as any transitional experience, any state that lies between two other states. Its original meaning, the experience of being between death and rebirth, is the prototype of the bardo experience, while the six traditional bardos show how the essential qualities of that experience are also present in other transitional periods. By refining even further the understanding of the essence of bardo, it can then be applied to every moment of existence. The present moment, the now, is a continual bardo, always suspended between the past and the future.