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<p>What I understood is that Enlightenment just means they've achieved some sort of supreme insight into the nature of phenomena, and as a result, they have complete choice as to whether they engage in the various attachments that arise in them, such as, attachments which would compel and ordinary person to rebirth. An Enlightened individual would witness those compulsions as they arise and see their true nature, and thus have the option to not engage in them.</p>
<p>Is this understanding correct? Because I feel like I've seen people float around the idea that an Enlightened person has no attachments at all, but that makes no sense to me. Someone with no attachments would have no compulsion to get up and eat when their body gets hungry, and would have no reason to respond to people who attempt to talk to them and ask them questions.</p>
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<p><strong>“Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.”</strong> <strong>~Jon Kabat-Zinn</strong></p>
<p>I started meditating and practicing mindfulness more seriously several years ago incorporating it in to my daily routine, initially to help with my anxiety. My practice certainly helped me by leaps and bounds in overcoming my anxiety, but an unexpected side effect has been the impact it’s having on my marriage.</p>
<p>We’ve not been married long, and as many couples before us have experienced, getting accustomed to this new dynamic can be at times… difficult.</p>
<p>Learning to communicate and compromise isn’t always a smooth ride. He cares about being on time (or early), I care about not being rushed. I like the kitchen cleaned after dinner, he couldn’t care less. He gets stressed when he doesn’t know the schedule in advance, I feel stressed when I feel boxed into a plan.</p>
<p>So we argued. And got mad at each other. And created these expectations for each other that we definitely didn’t always meet.</p>
<p>But slowly I started to notice a change. It began with a change in me, my stress level, my tendency to blame, my expectations of him. I found myself more understanding, better able to let go of things that didn’t go my way, and better at communicating when an argument bubbled up between us.</p>
<p>Then my husband started to change too. He’d noticed the changes in me and saw how much better I felt and how much easier communication was with me, and he started mimicking what he saw me do.</p>
<p>He wasn’t letting things bother him as much. In a situation where we would have had an ugly argument, he was now starting the conversation from a place of curiosity instead of finger pointing. But the biggest thing that I noticed from him was how he was willing and able to reflect on how he was feeling and dig into why he felt the way he did whereas in the past he would have become angry at me for making him feel that way.</p>
<h3>What is Mindfulness?</h3>
<p>Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment on purpose and without judgment. This can be done in day-to-day activities like driving, eating, and in conversation. It can also be practiced as formal meditation.</p>
<p>This simple practice can transform our relationship with our thoughts, give us new perspectives on life and even our own behaviors, and free us from the hold that our emotions can have on us when we identify with them.</p>
<p>Here are changes I’ve seen in myself from practicing mindfulness that have led to improving my marriage.</p>
<h4>I’m happier.</h4>
<p>Stress is a salty mistress with eight in ten adults suffering daily. And anxiety is pervasive in our society, affecting roughly forty million Americans (including me for thirty-ish years). Practicing mindfulness is a time-tested and scientifically proven method of dealing with and overcoming the hold of stress and anxiety.</p>
<p>When we’re stressed, feeling down or angry, we’re on the lookout for anything to prove that life is stressful or crappy, or that we’re right and others are wrong. We notice the things that bother us like dishes left on the counter, a car driving too slowly in traffic, or the way your husband asks what’s for dinner.</p>
<p>And when we’re happy, we do the same—look for things to prove why life is great. You notice the nice things, the birds chirping, that your husband gets up without complaint on Tuesday mornings to take out the trash. It’s also easier to be more compassionate and forgiving from a happy place.</p>
<p><em>The less-stressed and no longer anxiety-ridden me is a much better wife and partner. From a happier place, I’m not only much more pleasant to be around, but things don’t tend to bother me as much.</em></p>
<h4>I’m a better listener.</h4>
<p>As a person with ADD, I’ve always found listening intently in conversations to be a difficult task. The mind wanders to other topics making it difficult to be fully present, take in what the other person is saying, and retain the information for later.</p>
<p>My mindfulness practice has drastically improved my ability to pay attention. It’s like brain training, building the ‘muscle’ that helps direct our attention at will.</p>
<p><em>I’m better able to fully listen to my husband when he’s sharing with me without always thinking of what I’m going to say next or what I need to do later. He feels heard, and we feel more connected to each other as a result.</em> <strong> </strong></p>
<h4>I’m much more aware of how I’m feeling.</h4>
<p>Not to say that I’m happy 24/7—I don’t think that’s possible, nor would I want that. We have a rainbow of emotions, and there are good reasons to feel them even for a brief moment.</p>
<p>The act of paying attention on purpose trains the brain to notice what we’re feeling. We’re so used to just feeling our feelings, and if it isn’t pleasant we either try to run from it, numb it, or lash out.</p>
<p>It’s more productive and much less stressful to look at our emotions with curiosity. Label them. Then ask questions. “Ah, I’m feeling irritated. What’s that about? What’s another way of looking at this? How can I change this situation or cope with it?”</p>
<p>I’m also better able to catch myself before emotions spike high. Once emotions hit their peak in an argument, the horse had already left the stable. It’s tough, if not damn near impossible to reel it back in once you’ve reached the crest of pissed off-ness.</p>
<p>At this point, your brain and body are in fight or flight mode where it’s impossible to access critical thinking skills and takes about twenty minutes to calm enough to think clearly to make sound, logical decisions.</p>
<p>Granted, those high negative emotions are drastically fewer and further between for me now with years of mindfulness practice under my belt. However, I’m only human and once in a great while I can feel those emotions rising.</p>
<p><em>Being more aware of how I feel has helped me resolve difficult or frustrating feelings internally and avoid arguments with my husband.</em></p>
<h4>I’m much more aware of how my husband is feeling.</h4>
<p>Mindfulness practice increases your ability to be present, and thus not be distracted by thoughts. As a result, you become more insightful, a better listener, and more observant.</p>
<p>This results in higher levels of emotional intelligence because you are able to see things from another person’s point of view to facilitate better communication. It becomes a powerful tool that makes you more effective in understanding other people, as well as contexts and situations.</p>
<p>When my husband seems upset, I’m better now at putting his behavior into context and empathizing with his emotions. For example, an angry outburst from him directed at me because we should have left five minutes ago, I can see is actually his frustration stemming from a lack of control over something he values—which is punctuality.</p>
<p><em>I don’t get upset in return anymore. Instead, I empathize with him because I better understand what is causing his emotions and don’t take them personally.</em></p>
<h4>I’m able to forgive more quickly.</h4>
<p>Pobody’s nerfect. Mindfulness teaches us to forgive ourselves and others as we are paying attention to the present moment non-judgmentally.</p>
<p>Using mindfulness techniques, a person is able to let go of or forget about the past and not dwell on what the future can be.</p>
<p>Mindfulness can be highly beneficial because we are able to let go of unrealistic or materialistic thoughts and just exist in the moment.</p>
<p>It can be used to accept the feelings of sadness, anger, irritation, or betrayal that you have and to move on from them. Your path to a freer you, begins with knowing what is hurting you the most.</p>
<p><em>Cultivating a greater capacity for forgiveness has brought me to a place in my relationships where I don’t hold grudges or dig up the past in arguments.</em></p>
<h4>I’m aware of the stories I’m telling myself.</h4>
<p>When something doesn’t go our way, it’s so easy to identify with the story we’re telling ourselves and label it as the whole truth.</p>
<p>Mindfulness has shown me the difference between <em>me</em> and my thoughts. They are not one in the same. Thoughts are ideas passing through our minds like clouds in the sky. They are fleeting. They change with context.</p>
<p>Because of mindfulness, when I’m upset I can more easily identify the story I’m telling myself that is making me upset.</p>
<p>For example, I was hurt after my husband didn’t get up and greet me enthusiastically when I came home from a week-long business trip. He stayed sitting on the couch absorbed with what he was doing.</p>
<p>I was upset and went upstairs to fume. Then I realized I was telling myself a story that my husband doesn’t care about me or love me enough. I know that isn’t true. There are a number of reasons why he didn’t get up.</p>
<p>When I came back downstairs he could tell I was still a bit upset, so he asked me about it. I said, “The story I’m telling myself is that you didn’t miss me because you didn’t get up when I came home. I know it’s not true, but I’m still feeling a little upset because I would have liked it if you gave me a big hug.”</p>
<p>He apologized and said he’d wanted to wait until I was settled to love on me. He was much more receptive to “the story I’m telling myself” than he would have been had I started in on him about what he’d done wrong. And I felt better when I stopped jumping to the wrong conclusion and allowed him to share his side while avoiding confrontation.</p>
<p>A few weeks later he calmly told me he was upset about something and started the conversation with “the story I’m telling myself is…”</p>
<p>That’s when I knew our relationship was improving because of mindfulness.</p>
<p><em>Being able to objectively look at my thoughts and feelings allows me to reframe any situation and gives me the space to respond thoughtfully instead of reacting impulsively.</em></p>
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<p>If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this experience is that self-love and striving for self-improvement can have a ripple effect through your life affecting those around you for the better. The better me I can become—less stressed, more compassionate, healthier, happier—the better wife, friend, daughter, and coach I can be.</p>
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<p>I was listening to a song by willow smith and one of the lines resonated with me: “he’s running out of time, trying to get from A to B to eternity”. As we continue to destroy our planet, we’re running out of time to reach enlightenment. When the Earth is completely destroyed, what will happen? Will the cycle of reincarnation be halted? Will we forever be stuck in an inbetween of life and Nirvana or would we go straight to Nirvana?</p>
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<p>I am personally agnostic towards the general Big 3 Monotheistic idea of God. So I'm not religious in that manner. What attracted me towards Buddhism in the first place was the emphasis of (what seems to me) as compassion, love <strong>for others, and for myself</strong>. I'm not interested in the stuff about the cycle of rebirth, as I personally do not think that stuff is true.</p>
<p>But disregarding that, where can I get started on learning Buddhist principles? I've heard and it seems from lurking/browsing here, that meditation is a big component of Buddhism. I'm just confused as to what is the path of things that I learn and practice. <em>I don't know what I don't know</em>, I'd just like a <em>good outline/roadmap of the teachings</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Thanks in advance of course!</strong></p>
<p><em>I will admit, I'm a newbie who doesn't know much about common Buddhist beliefs (which is why I am making this post) so if something I say here that is inaccurate, please do correct me!</em></p>
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<p>So for a while even as a lay person I've been practicing some things that for some reason people have suggested not to.</p>
<p>The first time I ever hit close to jhana was a total accident. I practice jhana but with the goal of enlightenment not to sound cool nor to benefit myself in this world as best I can phrase it.</p>
<p>That and other things brought me to buddhism, not the other way around. It and many other views I've had just fit perfectly.</p>
<p>Others like mindfulness of the body from the suttas. I'm not sure why it was advised I not do it. It's not hard to look at what the body is so to say but still perform the daily duties I'd begun before becoming serious.</p>
<p>Recently I nearly died. I was on life support for a week and on top of the initial cause even with it and all of the sedation went into respiratory failure as an indirect result of the initial cause. I knew I was about done even while in such a state but knew I had obligations to wrap up here first even without true attachment. I've always felt like I chose this life on purpose with the aim of helping some people in specific ways.</p>
<p>Once I snapped out of it, "woke up" and the sedation wore off I realized I didnt care. I thought nothing of it. I just accepted it for what it was. The only thing I felt bad about as I can best put it was my wife having to go through that. Luckily my children are too young to know except the fact I was gone. I mean I totally want to finish my obligation because I do not wish to cause them suffering and do love them but concerning "myself" I just thought nothing of it. Without family obligations I would have let go and accepted it.</p>
<p>On top of this I decided to water fast after recovering. When my body seems it needs food I break it and eat but then continue. I'm well supplemented and honestly have weight to spare. It's not even for my body so to say. It's to make it more easy to pay attention to my thoughts, cravings and bodily function itself. Once I feel it has done it's job I'll return to normal eating except a more strict diet to where food is for sustenance instead of a habit or for enjoyment and likely keep it to a single meal at once before morning meditation.</p>
<p>Anyway though I've agreed with buddhism for a while things truly clicked in my mind so to say. It's not something I wish to elaborate on regarding some specifics but all positive for this path. I can be happy when I want but also faster than ever still my mind. I'll be recontinuuing my meditations tomorrow or the next day. Due to family obligations I need to have a strict schedule and the whole hospital thing had my sleep schedule way off so I've needed to cycle back.</p>
<p>I'm not sure why I felt like I should share. I believe it's mostly because I intended to share that what can seem like extremely negative things can truly benefit the path.</p>
<p>And I understand things may sound bad but only if taken out of context. I hope you are all doing well in the multitude of ways possible.</p>
<p>Some details I left out or vague on purpose for privacy. There are also some questions I will not answer IF they come up but that really just depends. You never know what gets said or asked online yet alone Reddit.</p>
<p>Peace.</p>
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<p>I dream of traveling the world someday and visiting the most famous houses of worship I can find. Cathedrals, Synagogues, Mosques, and of course a variety of temples and shrines. I myself am pretty agnostic towards all religions but I can't help being fascinated by them. The gorgeous art, spiritual contemplation and philosophy of world religions are usually displayed very well in some houses of worship. For example, the Sistine Chapel is filled with Michelangelo's paintings of the Biblical stories and as a result tells the onlooker of central Christian themes in stunning detail.</p>
<p>So I've been looking for Buddhist counterparts but it seems there are too many to pick from! So perhaps asking some actual Buddhists what their favorites are I can narrow them down a bit. Of course I wish I could visit them all but I not incredibly wealthy or have hundreds of years to spare. So considering artistic beauty and visual depictions of Buddhist themes, what are a few I should visit?</p>
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<p>I'm just curious to gather opinions. The Buddha says that we are to see ourselves as others in vice versa and that our compassion isn't complete if it doesn't include ourselves. So how is important to reaching Nirvana is it to eat a healthy diet and exercise our bodies? What kind of diets do you think would help practice Dharma?</p>
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<p>Hey all, so as far as I understand, there was some sort of classical buddhism before Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana, is that (classic buddhism) still alive or is classic buddhism one of these: Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana?</p>
<p>And also, what are the differences between the western way to look at buddhism and the eastern way to look at buddhism? I can imagine that we in the west tend to look more at buddhism like some sort of a logical "atheistical" system, where we are not bound to one specific god, because the god is within. Do you have any input here? Would really love to hear your thoughts on this!</p>
<p>Also, I wish you all a wonderful day, stay mindful!</p>
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<p>In a Terence Mckenna talk he mentions that yogis and schizophrenics are both in the same water, but that the yogi has shamanic techniques to assist him while the schizophrenic is drowning.</p>
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<p>The word karma means creation or action. When we discuss karma, we are discussing energy. Karma is that energy that moves from here to there and then bounces back, which is the definition of duality. Here, we are discussing duality in the sense of neurosis or dualistic fixation</p>
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<p>Recently I've noticed the usage of metronomes in series & movies during "meditation" or "meditative" practices. Now bearing in mind that I saw these being used in series and movies, I'm still curious as to your thoughts on these as a tool during meditation?</p>
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<p>I was born a Buddhist, to a somewhat religious Buddhist family. We went to temple every Sunday and attended Buddhist classes. But recently something happened in the family that just made me doubt my faith altogether.</p>
<p>1- I cannot speak to God like the Christians do. I cannot ask for help, forgiveness or even just someone to listen to my prayers. There is no creator God in Buddhism and the Buddha has just dissappeared to Nibanna which is at god knows where, and is probably really unable to listen to my grievances anyway.</p>
<p>2- I cannot reach out to the monks for advice. They are always scurrying off to some corner of the temple, and don't really build a relationship with any of their followers. They're revered and are there for lunch and special prayers. But there is a boundary between them and the followers that I find it hard to even want to talk to them in the first place.</p>
<p>3- I don't know why I pray. Apparently you're supposed to feel calmer afterwards. I feel the same before and after. It doesn't do anything for me. Good and bad things happen whether or not I pray.</p>
<p>4- I hate meditation being forced upon me. Sure some people like them. But why do I have to do it? When I don't even like it. As if meditation is going to solve all of my problems. Maybe the whole world should just sit down, meditate and do nothing else then if that's the case.</p>
<p>Religion seems to have done nothing for me that my friends and family has, not even to listen to my grievances. Maybe I would be better off without a religion altogether?</p>
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“You will grow younger, and your<br />
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Please live out your lives with an<br />
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<p>Tentative translation of “To My Friends” published in the Seikyo Shimbun, based on President Ikeda’s recent guidance.</p>
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<p>Granted this experience was on 550ug LSD and I know a lot of you may dismiss this as the real thing but either way I will talk about my experience.</p>
<p>Briefly, I was in a state of pure bliss, It was like I was under an umbrella of pure love. I think life is meant to be shared so I quickly turned to my keyboard to write down what I was experiencing, and nothing was coming to my mind.</p>
<p>For me to want to speak, means I want to be heard, means I am not content in the present. This feels selfish, I want my friends to experience what I was feeling!</p>
<p>Granted while that aspect tickled me the wrong way, the experience was incredible. Only when you truly have nothing to say, are you fully listening. I think we should all experience that at some point.</p>
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