Dharma – the opposite of armour: opening up to what you’ve been trying to protect yourself from
Samsara – trying more of what fails you; solving dissatisfaction by re-creating its cause.
Karma – the life you give to the idea of separateness by feeding it with intentional actions based on self.
The way apparent actions infallibly produce apparent results: the stain of your intention tints your glasses, it’s only a matter of time…
Intention – the steering wheel for our life, otherwise the rolling tyre of thoughts stays in whatever ruts it already finds itself.
Ranking one set of influences over others. By examining our actions we can divine what influences we truly value.
Unwholesome conduct – demonstration of lack of confidence in selflessness, a shortcoming which inhibits the potential for realising Truth. Ignoring interpenetration.
Goodness – acting in accord with Truth and Love, until Truth and Love are fully realised.
Action – a means of purifying intention. Investment in Truth or delusion. The weight in the cart which deepens the ruts it makes.
Other people – an illusion to enable purification of the mind: if all times interpenetrate with Now, everyone else is me in another lifetime.
Devotion – realising you’re head over heels in love with Truth.
Non-dual Love. To reach that realisation, we practise dualistic forms of devotion.
Offering – reminding yourself that your Awakening depends on the adhistana of the Buddhas. Giving something its real value.
Heart – your largest organ: emotional nervous system extending infinitely beyond your body.
Your aliveness, the entire space of Awareness, everything you ever experience if only you recognised it.
Happiness – the state of Hap: being Happening, not judging the Hap (as mishap), or separating from it (hapless), but with happenstance, letting it all be haphazard.
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very thoughtful and elegantly put…. hitting the nails delicately bang on the head!! And as I listen to some of the more adventurous and open minded scientists telling us non-scientists as best they can what they are working on, it feels like they are dealing with the same nails!!.
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I like this, as a way to unpick some of those dharma words we might bandy around without really investigating what they mean. I was interested in your explication of other people – it could sound solipsistic though I know that’s not your intention, or am I misreading it? Do you mean we have experienced all the types of lives that others are currently going through?
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What is solipsistic if everyone is solipsistic? If we are all Indra’s Net, seeing everyone else as something other? And if all your previous and future lives were to appear now, you would actually BE all those “other people”… Makes you think (I hope).
Great to have replies though, shows me it’s not just going into a vast cyber sink-hole. x 5
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