jeffdengr - holding onto one thing too much u get grasping which can bring pain cause all conditioned things change
not holding onto it cause u do not like it brings pain
ignorance brings pain
perhaps not instantly but it will come
it is true that now is the only moment
Mark-11 - comfort is not nice?
it comes and goes thats the only thing
once again do not hold on onto
we are reborn not in after life
it is life again
it goes like this
birth-life-death-rebirth
it can be said that birth and death are different aspects of the same thing
when u are deep in duality u see death opposed to life
when u see it for what it is it is scary or difficult to look forward to
most see it as freedom
only when enlightened
parinibbana
jeffdengr - meditation is not just sitting but living - it removes ignorance
use mindfullness to see what things are like right now
genorosity opposes greediness
morality opposes lack of it
Renunciation - Grasping
Wisdom - delusion
effort - sloth
Patience - impatience
Truthfulness - deceit
Resolution - undetermined
Loving-kindness - indifference
Equanimity - paranoia & stress etc
focus brings light to them
memories are all within
why do they call computer memory memory?
comps are not as effecient but u get the point
recall is our problem
also perception
not reception
my brain runs at more than half a yottabyte
a second but there is much to go and some of the other senses slow some of it down
sorry
yottabyte = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes/sec
think of how well computers do things
we do it all the time and only never reboot till we die
ive seen no limits
InquiringMind - they are both of no effect in the present still maybe worth thinking about at some point
nothing is not worth considering
children are just innocent
something a Buddhist nun said once
she was asking a Catholic priest if she should go back to retreat or create a nunery
he said "life is a bit of wood - if u go back to retreat u will be rubbing urself with velvet all the time, the nunery will be sandpaper"
children havent had much experience so the ability to cope with it hasnt been shown yet either
the supreme being yes we all exist there and move through it
like a circle
NeoZon - i remember much of pasts lives when i meditate on it but sometimes i have reoccuring thoughts of things and people
i have a friends who i have been with 8 times in the last 20 or so reincarnations
few have been human but we have a magnetism
i know him better than i know myself
same with him
jeffdengr family is only really blood links im not sure that u move from one to the other forms within ur family line
tradition and customs take care of the things u may have seen
what we see as ourselves has 5 parts
feelings
thought
perception
body
conciousness
they are all interpendant that is why we see them as one or two
body and mind
aspects of each other
babayada - good on ya for the joy of it all
past and future shape
they are dependant to on now as now is dependant on past and future
we learn from mistakes and learn not to make them again
now we do the learning
Eric_G - ur almost on the right track
practice the wrong thing though u get bad results
right view and intention are wisdom
rightspeech, action & livelihood are ethics
right effort mindfulness and concentration are mental
practice them and gain experience
with experience of that u gain enlightenment
no more rebirth 
jeffdengr - funny why people are so scared of death when it is so peacefull
no confusion simply pain
i look at it and laugh
i truely laugh in the face of death
ShaneXEdge - too true
life is a thread we are hanging by
"reaching out to embrace whatever may come" - from a tool song called lateralus
Eric_G - anyone who lines up theory with Buddha has done some good work i say
Edmilio - ever done reiki or tai chi or anything like that?
did u know butterflies can beating wings in succession create a thunderstorm across the world?
beauty i think
this is all illusion
just try to make sense of it cause i will not go away like a desert mirage when u jump in for a swim
peace love & joy straight back to ya
Frodo02 - i think near death is just life
not death
people say something just missed them
not just it did
same as if it never came close right?
language is silly at times especially english
the unconditional part of us the super conciousness
the undying the unborn yes
that is not i but us
to use conventional terms
babayada - yes the body rots but it still remains
the cirle of life is made of death as much as it is of death
conditioned reality contradicts itself
energy truely is indestructible but perhaps only in the conditioned states of form and non-form
something ill have to meditate on
(well sitting as opposed to living)
its a little deeper to wrap around
SHEANIMA - human being goes not have a higher power
God is not a reality in itself
God claims to be dependant from all
but needed to create us why?
because he is love?
haha
is he is love then why do we have it?
because he is everywhere?
why do we have to ascend to heaven?
old school flat earth theory from antiquity
its old and unfounded
they are nice people thats all
Mark-11 - the being never changes just who what, where, why and when i believe
to be or not to be
ask urself that question
SHEANIMA - claiming to be a freethinker and being christian is a little difficult
they walk on a thin line as bill hicks says
to be free is to not be trapped in anything
jesus or hell is not my idea of free
deaf and dumb and blind and born to follow - another awesome Tool quote from the song Opiate
look at the lyrics they are quite enlightening to the world of christianity
trust without judgement and questioning is not freedom
what is 2?
what is 4?
think about more than what u know
babayada - orwell altogether still play on my mind everyday
he is a genius!!!
things are not as they seem yes
SHEANIMA - absolute yes but nothing is constant
unless u believe in God and soul
hehe
tell me any emotion continues all the time and ill laugh
cept unconditional love
unconditioned can be constand and permanent
mundane love turns to hate very quickly
A house cannot initiate the construction of itself. - SHEANIMA
thats right
u just confirmed that things are dependant of each other to exist right?
remove man does God exist?
wait
did he ever?
lmao
simple is sometimes best
and children made u realise that
haha amazing
great work
who created the creator?
even god said everything has a first cause
the will to be was it
the will =to not be does not counter it but creat another conditioned state the realm of gods
unlike the bible god,allah and yahweh or shekinah the two sides of the jewish Godhead
which has been supressed by the churches or time
the holy spirit is female
why else is god androgynous?
jesus male + shekina female = god both
the word heremaphrodite
hermes + aphroditie = hermaphrodite
zwitter zwitter haha
zwei in deutsch is two
u see humans relise all this without relising
why u think there is all the internal and preojected external strife
the external from people looking outwards
God is outwards
hope this answers some questions of a few inquiring minds
look deeper into all the main religions and especially egyptian mythology
the ankh
why the hell do christians say amen after prayer?
hello!!!!! amen the sun god of egyptian myth
i said that to a christian of 67 years she went "those egyptians got it wrong"
haha
u just gotta laugh sometimes
ur core beliefs
haha resistance to change and being wrong
the ultimate prison cell
i feel sorrow for u
buddhism is the most complete religion of religions
u are NOT free thinking
must i repeast it?
anyone find this as amusing as i do? lmao
jeffdengr - try buddhadhamma (buddhism)
its an awesome truth
and pure like none other
and the path to enlightenment
ith no stories that seem to be lies and no claim that we have freewill while being in accordance to a predestines plan
truth is often relative
why we get the feeling of self place and time
babayada - check out sacred geometry
the whole unverse conforms to one plan yes but it is not one that is of any god
the only bad is of our own creation
somethings are not completely in our control
but they can be coersed (spelling?)
great u believe that religion and such can change other beliefs
i know many that do not
right we can choose to think and not
we can make it usefull while we have it
but to need it is the pain creator
Alex K. Viefhaus - ur right but u still look forward to lunch hehe
saying is one thing apart from doing if they are different
i know im not perfect either 
but just a thought
and it can matter who u where
mozart would have never made such wonderfull music if he had never looked into it and the superconciousness
change form yes
but the core is mostly the same
to be completely new is to say it was all destroyed and recreated
SHEANIMA - just something for u think about
the unchanging God u believe in right why did he create and them not create?
that is a change
there are thousands of them in the bible
the ever changing God
omnipresent but not possibly in this manifestation - why he needs the holy spirit
perfect means completely made
he is not complete we can see he needed us
and he is supposedly not made
which is it lol?
freedom and happiness. indeed
politics can be great
but christians have a bad record of it
Hitler and Bush are two good examples lmao
babayada - measure with ur experiences
do not allow something to be trusted or believed without trying it out
deep reflection is needed
livingsuccess - one would need to let go of all conceptualising
we do need to find something
the ending of the cycle
but do not worry about it too much
just walk in the right direction
and take one step after another
one breath after another
jeffdengr life is not what u want to do
it does not exist
that is the worldly sickness
we exist now
why not being now!?!?!
flight is possible for humans
just takes a long time to focus the energy and develop the skill to do it
may seem crazy yes
but God now that isnt? hahaha
truth sometimes is weirder than fiction
babayada - why would u kill Buddha?
thats rather unacceptable that u want to kill
but Buddha?
Budhism is not a religion it is an education
Paul schelle is pretty good
he gets a lot right
some wrong but u do not have the mind to decide on each in order to say yes or now
u simply say yes
InquiringMind - yes but maybe just change
through defeat and lack or reason
though that can change also
the cesret is the mindpoint
the middle path
not optimism or pessimism
but halfway
that way u do not get dissapointed or swell in unhappiness
u get me?
buddhism leads to nibbana i know that much
jeffdengr - yes we must let go
once u learn to love urself unconditionaly u move it to all because u learn how things are interdependant
you are me i am u
we are one
haha i like ur imagery
i met buddhas in a room with no walls
they had 2 boxes each and opened them around me to take a piece of me into each
buddha gave me love and understanding which flowed in through my third eye and the other buddha opened the other box and new pieces of colours blue red yellow white and orange came to make me whole again
it was very strange as i remembered it and dreamed it later a few times
i not longer have nightmares
we swapped clother
i was originally in a roman toga and him in his ascetic garb
i think im going to become a monk for some reason
i feel good always through constain meditations and pure thoughts (i would like to believe)
im not that far through the tapes yet
no need to kill Buddha
just be with the buddha and thank him for giving his best
would u expect anymore or less?
a different perception can change a lot
WOW
thanx to all reading this rant
i hope u come up with something to counter anything wrong and hope read it through to see
Much love Prana
