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JUPITERASC

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The priority we give to material goods in our life
is up to each of us to determine.
This is also part of deciding how we want to define ourselves.
If we are looking to our jobs and to material things
to tell us how we are, what we are worth
and where we fit in the world
this is a sign that we have become profoundly confused :smile:
about the order of things.
It shows we have missed the point
about how we human beings stand
in relation to the material world.
17th Karmapa
from the book "The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out"


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Flapjacks

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So yesterday a crock pot in the closed walk-in pantry that was very secure at the back of a deep shelf, with stuff piled in front of it, flew off and crashed on the floor, where the crock somehow landed two feet away from the element housing, taking a bunch of other stuff with it and crushing an aluminum lamp that was sitting on the floor.

Ukpoohbear, what have you been up to lately? :alien:
 

JUPITERASC

Well-known member
Becoming independent practitioners
~ HH The 17th Karmapa

The main point is
that if we are going to be real practitioners of the dharma,
then we need to become independent practitioners,
people who actually know how to practice
by learning how to be quite direct and honest with ourselves.

We might think we can always be sitting in front of our teacher
or master and practice the dharma by continually receiving advice
from him or her about what we should and should not do.
But if we are always in need of advice,
then someone who can give us advice
is not always going to be there for us.
Therefore, we have to learn how to pay attention
to what is going on in our own minds
and figure out what are our faults,
and what are our qualities,
and what is the way to distinguish between faults and qualities.

Instead of constantly looking to something that is outside of us,
we have to develop the ability to pay attention in a mindful way :smile:
and an insightful way to what is actually happening within us,
so that we can become capable, autonomous practitioners of the Dharma."
HH The 17th Karmapa
from the book "Heart Advice of the Karmapa"


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SunConjunctUranus

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I love Buddhist because they taught me the REAL "Dharma" as a human being. Translated into "carrying a cross" for the follower of Master Jesus Chris' original teaching. Ukpoohbear, you should watch Dalai Lama's videos more often!
 

JUPITERASC

Well-known member
I love Buddhist because they taught me the REAL "Dharma" as a human being.
Translated into "carrying a cross" for the follower of Master Jesus Chris' original teaching.

Ukpoohbear, you should watch Dalai Lama's videos more often!
Good idea - many online if interested :smile:

Love, compassion and ethics - a dialogue with the Dalai Lama
at Happiness & Its Causes 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D9FdkivDBk



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Ukpoohbear

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So yesterday a crock pot in the closed walk-in pantry that was very secure at the back of a deep shelf, with stuff piled in front of it, flew off and crashed on the floor, where the crock somehow landed two feet away from the element housing, taking a bunch of other stuff with it and crushing an aluminum lamp that was sitting on the floor.

Ukpoohbear, what have you been up to lately? :alien:

I just saw this now lol

Yes, yes that was me. I was hungry and wanted you to cook me something, what’s wrong with that??
 
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