ok ok, now i feel that im really lagging behind
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.........Originally posted by Cenarious:but maybe i can overtake buddha!but maybe i can overtake buddha!
No. Nothing higher than Buddha. When you attain Buddhahood you will know. -
So rather than dreaming about supernatural powers or things like that, better to cultivate chan2 ding4.Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Anyway you mentioned omnipotent. Not anyone, even the Buddha, is omnipotent. This is because the Buddha cannot simply just interfere with our karma and grant us enlightenment. If they are able to, then all sentient beings would be enlightened by now. They can only teach, and guide us.
But omniscience is possible. It is through chan2 ding4. Sort of like entering the 10th dimension where everything can be accessed.
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oh well, every other thing in life is also purposeless.
When you open your power of now, what do you read?Hence, the ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world but in transcendence of the world. Just as you would not be conscious of space if there were no objects in space, the world is needed for the Unmanifested to be realized. You may have heard the Buddhist saying: "If there were no illusion, there would be no enlightenment." It is through the world and ultimately through you that the Unmanifested knows itself. You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
~ The Power of Now, Eckhart Tollewww.jenchen.org.sg/buddhism.htm
What kind of life is meaningful?
A Blissful Life Is Meaningful
If asked what is my purpose in life, I would say I want to promote a bliss culture. I want to spread the Dharma for the benefit of all sentient beings. I want to devote myself to Buddhism, practise BuddhaÂ’s teachings and follow the Bodhisattva path. This is my purpose in life.
Some people have no desire to be good, they want to steal or rob. If you ask him about his purpose of life, he will tell you life is meaningful if he can strike a "big one", or continue with his sinful ways. Then, there are those who are capable of earning money, and they would say, "I want to be the richest person in the world." These to them are very meaningful. Many people who are well off have no desire to be engaged in useful employment. I have been told of a very rich lady who travelled from country to country to "beg" for money. In reality she was already a multi-millionaire. Ask her what is her interest in life, and she would say she enjoys begging.
So, what kind of life is meaningful? Human beings have one common objective, and that is living. But to live meaningfully, we must pursue bliss. I believe that is also our common objective. What Buddhism teaches is a bliss culture, so let us promote this bliss culture so that everyone can achieve bliss and happiness. Thus, I feel that only a life that seeks bliss and happiness is truly meaningful. -
then cultivating supernatural powers can also be meaningful. it can satisfy my curiousity and help clear more illusions.Originally posted by An Eternal Now: -
But no knowledge (on the mind level) is permanently satisfying. Like all other phenomena, when cling to, creates Dukkha - suffering, unsatisfactoriness. Suffering is a mark of dharma.Originally posted by Cenarious:then cultivating supernatural powers can also be meaningful. it can satisfy my curiousity and help clear more illusions.
See: The Three Characteristics of Existence (Must read!)
Also Teacher Chen warned his students not to seek supernatural powers before gaining wisdom, because a seeker will grasp on external things/want to know more due to these powers and never gain wisdom. -
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So nothing is ultimately that worthy of knowing.Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Interesting quote of the day:
“There is more information in one thimble of reality
than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is
beyond the human brain to understand the world and its
environment, so the brain compensates by creating simplified
illusions that act as a replacement for understanding.
When the illusions work well and the human who subscribes
to the illusion survives, those illusions are passed to new
generations.
“The human brain is a delusion generator.
The delusions
are fueled by arrogance—the arrogance that humans are the
center of the world, that we alone are endowed with the magical
properties of souls and morality and free will and love. We
presume that an omnipotent God has a unique interest in our
progress and activities while providing all the rest of creation
for our playground. We believe that God—because he thinks
the same way we do—must be more interested in our lives
than in the rocks and trees and plants and animals.”
Let go of all mental knowing.. do not grasp on them. Enter the realm of the wordless. Practise. -
ThanksOriginally posted by neutral_onliner:
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very trueOriginally posted by An Eternal Now:So nothing is ultimately that worthy of knowing.
Let go of all mental knowing.. do not grasp on them. Enter the realm of the wordless. Practise.
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yup i'll practise alright. after my exams i will meditate seriously. am just venting it out here. my mother says it is not good to keep everything to yourself.
It is also the same for the other time when I whined about christianity in jonls's thread. Blockages needed to be removed and stuffs needed to get out of my chest (as in the place of christianity in my subconscious, not jonls). -
oicOriginally posted by Cenarious:yup i'll practise alright. after my exams i will meditate seriously. am just venting it out here. my mother says it is not good to keep everything to yourself.
It is also the same for the other time when I whined about christianity in jonls's thread. Blockages needed to be removed and stuffs needed to get out of my chest (as in the place of christianity in my subconscious, not jonls). -
when you get bored, then how? you will want more disastrous power because you are bored, not because you have get rid of your greed and delusion.Originally posted by Cenarious:it's ok, i just want a taste of them and i'll get bored of them very easily. -
No, I bought a bunch of PC games that day and the installation was tedious. I also had to get used to how each game functioned and how to play. Now even just looking at them makes me sick.Originally posted by justdoit77:when you get bored, then how? you will want more disastrous power because you are bored, not because you have get rid of your greed and delusion. -
I believe I was letting my Painbody manifest, so that I could observe it. It's better than hiding it deep deep then one day turn up suddenly at the wrong moment and ruin my life.Originally posted by TWE:There is no such thing as just to have a taste of them so i take it as you are just curious over how it feels to have those powers , when you have some powers , you will always feel tempted to use them every now and then . Haste makes waste , the more eager you are to attain enlightenment , the further you are away from it . i recomend you to study some basic teachings of buddhism or even tao te jing if you want , then spend some time to think about what it actually means and how to apply it into your everyday life rather then just to know those teachings and preach ard like some learned pple or even jump into deeper teachings like sutras , etc without getting a proper foundations for it as you may misintepret the actuall meaning of it .