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Subject: Interdependent Origination.

ogdenz 30.05.15 - 02:42pm
So other than as an intellectual exercise what does all this mean? How does it relate to real life and help to reduce suffering? * +

propidol 30.05.15 - 03:32pm

That's funny. * +

ogdenz 17.06.15 - 01:05am
Seeing and understanding the way things really exist as opposed to the way we usually assume them to exist lessens our attachment. * +

ogdenz 17.06.15 - 01:11am
We project selfhood onto all we see which gives rise to attachment and aversion...also neutral feelings too. Suffering ultimately comes from ignorance,our ignorance of the way things truly are. Ignorance causes desire and desire is the more immediate cause of suffering. * +

ogdenz 17.06.15 - 01:53am
According to Buddhist teachings freedom from suffering dawns when we realise that we ourselves as well as all other things are empty. * +

ogdenz 17.06.15 - 08:20am
A zen student and his master were in a town one day and the student saw a statue of Buddha,he asked his master if it was okay to buy the statue so he could put it on the little alter in his room. Certainly said the master,but you must remember to remove the statue every weekend and replace it with a bowl of dog shyte. * +

ogdenz 17.06.15 - 08:32am
An old koan attributed to zen master Linji ..founder of the Rinzai sect states ''If you meet the Buddha kill him. Koans are statements,questions or requests that are impossible to answer..eg What is the sound of one hand clapping? * +

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