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How to practise without having aversion towards life?
Case 57 of the Blue Rock Collection I alone am holy
Case A monastic said to Zhaozhou, "It is said, 'The Great Way is not difficult. It only abhors choice and attachment.' Now, what are
nonchoice ...
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How to stop rejecting / avoiding things?
Very good question, focused on real and useful problem.
Mind generates aversion when things go contrary to what it believes is "right". This belief is called "attachment". For ...
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Aversion and Mahayana
It's not accurate that the suttas do not address aversion (dosa) and the antidote for it.
For example, in the Nakulapita Sutta, the Buddha advises householder Nakulapita with regards to his aversion ...
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Nature of Aversion
Both fear and disliking are unskillful as they are forms of aversion. However there is a mental state which appears as fear or disliking, but it is a form of wisdom that understands the danger of ...
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How to deal with our aversions & judgements?
But one drug that always bothered me since I was young was cocaine.
I used to feel that way about alcohol. :-)
Not only that, but when somebody close to me talks about it in a nonchalant way, ...
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Should we care about what others think?
Maybe if it's people that cares about you and your spiritual progress. Good friendship with good advices/criticism is a treasure to be protected.
In the Dhammapada, we see that:
Should one a man ...
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How should I watch sensations in Vipassana meditation?
Firstly one should know how to handle experiances. This is what Vipassana teaches you.
Judging or reacting to sensation can lead to negative latent tendencies:
(1) the latent tendency to lust ...
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Nature of Aversion
Like desire (and aversion is just the other side of the same issue=tanha & avijja), aversion is required for the path. The matter is just for what desire, for what aversion. Nyom has a lot of ...
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Aversion and Mahayana
Yes, it is sometimes said in Mahayana that "hinayana" is the basic foundation, and that its primary focus is to learn to be satisfied with little, to control one's desire for entertainment, lust for ...
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How to practise without having aversion towards life?
Good householder,
Without life, a good birth, how could, would one practice the path out.
As the lokuttara-depending co-arising counts: birth/stand/life(jati) is condition for Dukkha, Dukkha reason ...
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How to practise without having aversion towards life?
If you have come to Buddhism out of a desire to no longer suffer, that desire itself may lead to more suffering for you, if you do not succeed, for whatever reason.
Buddhism provides ways to end your ...
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A recovering drug addict's struggle with ignorance and Beginner's Mind
It is frightening for me, because the fear of relapse, that aversion, is usually the primary culprit as the potential cause of my relapse. And I always feel on the verge of it.
I'm not sure I ...
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Did the Buddha have unpleasant emotions?
Unless Ajahn Chah used the term "Enlightened Ones" to refer to Stream-Enterer, Once-Returner & Non-Returner, he was mistaken, which I doubt. Keep in mind what is being read is a ...
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How to practise without having aversion towards life?
Craving for existence and craving for non existence , both are undesirable. We should see birth, life and death as dependently originated. Dependent Origination is the Dhamma. Dependent on birth comes ...
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In which sutta does the Buddha discuss his attitudes toward his audience either understanding or not understanding his teaching?
MN 137
https://lucid24.org/mn/mn137/index.html#7
7 - (The teacher -buddha- uses 3 types of sati, to illustrate upekkha reaction)
7.1 – (bad disciples)
7.2 – (some good some bad disciples)
7.3 – (all ...
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In which sutta does the Buddha discuss his attitudes toward his audience either understanding or not understanding his teaching?
There is this
For a generation delighting in attachment, excited by attachment, enjoying attachment, this/that conditionality and dependent co-arising are hard to see. This state, too, is hard to see:...
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Mastery of skills outside the Buddhist path and desire
It ultimately comes down to priorities. And different people will have their own priorities. There're only 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, so there're only limited resources to be put into mastery of a ...
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Mastery of skills outside the Buddhist path and desire
I'd guide you toward the Hsin Hsin Ming on this:
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and
undisguised. Make ...
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Do ALL thoughts with lobha (craving), dosa (aversion) and moha (ignorance) create bad karma?
Starting from having thoughts imbued with the three poisons, one would have intentions and intentions lead to kamma by way of actions, speech and thoughts.
All mental phenomena have mind as their ...
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How to stop rejecting / avoiding things?
"Come, bite your botty" sometimes help quick if telling angy children, or to "force" them looking, or need to look, into a mirror. Try it, when ever aversion arises.
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How to stop rejecting / avoiding things?
The rain is cold. With too much rain we can die of exposure. Knowing a body is cold, we can shield it or take it to a dry place. The thought "I am cold" or "I am averse to cold" ...
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How to stop rejecting / avoiding things?
You reflect aversion is harmful to yourself & others; it causes stress to yourself & can even lead to physical disease, such as cancer. If you get angry at the other person in the wrong way or ...
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How to stop rejecting / avoiding things?
Not sure whether it is a Buddhist perspective, i would like to share few things which may be of some sense to you. Please excuse my immature writing skills.
There are two streams of thoughts/ideas/...
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How to practise without having aversion towards life?
OP: My question is how do I think or train mind to not have either desire or aversion towards life?
There are plenty of reasons to not be afflicted by craving, and at the same time maintain happiness ...
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How to practise without having aversion towards life?
Now this has led me to other end of thought spectrum of aversion towards life. As I learnt and understood 'craving for non existance' is also a craving and should be avoided. But how can one think ...
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How to practise without having aversion towards life?
My question is how do I think or train mind to not have either desire or aversion towards life?
The danger of craving for non-existence is that it is a fatal obsession. Some with this wrong view have ...
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How to deal with our aversions & judgements?
That's your prejudice and as any prejudice it has deeply emotional roots. The right way to deal with it would be to work on it in meditation, by focusing on the emotion it triggers in you and going ...
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Nature of Aversion
The nature of aversion is the hidden energy that lives in human's subconscious mind. There are some low-frequency energies, tendencies, desires in each human's subconscious mind that causes aversion, ...
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