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Treeniap

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  1. A child told me what rebirth is about..

    The Bhudda once referred to the man who leaves a room is not the same man who entered the room. This means we change all the time - we are reborn all the time..

    ..sometimes we want something, sometimes we are bored, sometimes we cannot think and find the answer.. sometimes we think we are the best and sometimes we hate ourselves. The Bhudda helped people to understand these behaviours by giving them names (animals, angels, petra etc), but remember they are just ways people behave - watch your wife or your best friends and you will notice how they change minds and moods from time to time. They become like animals and like angels - they want stuff and they think too much.. Some people get stuck in their path and cannot become enlightened to this fact - as we see with the unhappy drunk and the stuck-up rich kid, and most people in society - the endless cycle of suffering.

    This is all rebirth emplies- and to be free from it and become enlightened one must first realise this (and thus become human) and then forget it.

  2. If one is to experience underlying reality as the true form indiscernable from self, and if one is not be perusaded by the illusion of permanence and significance in objects and surroundings then why are temples so full of bhuddist trinkets?

    Why are religious camps so grand and why is the image of the Bhudda so revered -when the first Bhudda and every enlightened individual since has suggested this type of worship is directly against the mental training which can bring enlightenment?

    Would anyone say Thai Bhuddism has become a show, a pantomine echoing the truths of a once solid lifestyle, but now overshadowed by the immediacy consumerism can offer the time-stricken believer?

  3. One would have to view the feeling of duality as being aware of concepts - aware of things being 'this' and of otherthings being being 'that'.

    This mental state is above pure oneness - the feeling of enlightenment - the realisation that universe and self is unconnected.

    Duality is the basis of all western philosopy, enlightenment is the experiment of eastern minds to forget conceptual language and return to unsymbolised impulse.

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