Buddhism is beyond Religion. It is not a religion - It's a system which was named after the Buddha which founded it, in this world - he meditated and said why we are sentient. Things that I was always in a quandary about : Why are we here, What made me, What is time, Why are all the same thing and not separate, Does the Universe collapse or expand without bounds, Mediating is beyond words - "NOT-THINKING", Why all worlds are subject to the same things that confound us.
When religion grows in age, faith turns into dogma, and experience is replaced by book-knowledge, virtue by adherence to rules, devotion by ritual, meditation by metaphysical speculation. The time is then ripe for a rediscovery of truth and a fresh attempt to give it expression in life.
If you are a Buddhist, you're an Explorer into everything.
Vipassana,
or insight meditation, emphasizes a calm, centered awareness of mind and
body leading to a fresh perspective on oneself, others, and life.
With practice, the sources of internal and external conflict, confusion,
and psychological and physical suffering are understood, seen through, and
transcended. As mental peace is
refined, warmth, kindness and compassion towards oneself and all beings
naturally arise from these profound realizations uncovered by the practice.
Dissatisfaction, anger, fear, restlessness and greed drop away.
The sense that there is not enough time, peace, love and harmony begins
to evaporate and is replaced by the experience of a purposeful, balanced, and
fulfilled life.
The Muliterse Phenomenon says that there are an infinite number of universes in our lives. The muliverse is one of the universes that we are living in separately. According to Buddhism we are in a state where our choices determine which multiverse we live in. Which mulitverse we live in is determined by Karma.
The answer is that manifested life arises out of the impetus in the Absolute to become conscious of itself.
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Books
Jack Kornfield, "Living Dharma,
Teachings of the Twelve Buddhist Masters"
ISBN
1-57062-138-1
Tulku Thondup, "Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A
Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook"
ISBN
1-59030-387-7
Robert A.F. Thurman, "The Tibetan Book Of The Dead,
Liberation Through Understanding In The Between"
ISBN
0-553-37090-1
"Mindfulness
Yoga The Awakened Union of Breath, Body, and Mind" by Frank Jude
Boccio
ISBN
0-86171-335-4
Meher Baba,
"Discourses"
ISBN
1-88061-909-1
"T'ai Chi Classics" translated by Waysun Liao
ISBN
1-57062-749-5
Joseph Goldstein & Jack Kornfield, "The Path of
Insight Meditation"
ISBN 1-57062-069-5
Larry Rosenberg, "Breath by Breath, The Liberating
Practice of Insight Meditation"
ISBN 1-5702-350-3
Venerable Henepola Gunaratana,
"Mindfulness In Plain English"
ISBN 0-86171-064-9
Joseph Goldstein, "Insight Meditation:
The Practice of Freedom"
ISBN
1-57062-052-3
Glenn Yeffeth, "Taking the Red
Pill, Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Matrix"
ISBN
1-932100-02-4
Diane Stein, "Essential Reiki,
A Complete Guide to a Ancient Healing Art"
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0-89594-736-6
DVD's
"Baraka" - "Baraka" which doesn't have any text. It has music by Michael Stearns and is as they say "A World Beyond Words" which I have dubbed "A World Beyond Worlds". It will change what you think about this world. It's given "Two Thumbs Up" by Chicagoans Siskel and Ebert. Baraka, an ancient Sufi word with forms in many languages, translates as a blessing, or as the breath or essence of life from which the evolutionary process unfolds. It was filmed in breathtaking 70mm in 24 countries on 6 continents.
"What the Bleep Do We Know?" - Science and spirituality come together in a this mind-bending trip down the rabbit hole.
"Illuminated Manuscripts" - Is a series of computer video animations exploring the visionary nature of journeys. Memory is celebrated as an active and mysterious force that may create and then dissolve sacred places, paths, and moments as it cycles through time.
"Infinity's Child" - Infinity's Child, however, leaves behind the recognizable if digitally realized landscapes from that first effort; this time, the images border upon the abstract. A brief voice-over at the opening informs us that the Phleig exploration vessel, Infinity's Child, is discovered adrift on the edges of explored space. Its crew of thousands are mysteriously missing. The ship's logs point to an ancient legend of a "gateway world" thought to be an entry point to realities beyond. The Phleig discover the location of this world and launch a massive mission to explore it. What they find when they arrive is nothing like they ever imagined... For the next 40 minutes we hear nothing but an electronic score alternatively droning and bouncing along as images drift by, undergo some transformation, then fade away again. Translucent rocks lazily roll upon a crimson sea; a watery substance ripples with golden light; crystal spires rise up from oceans.
"The
Elegant Universe" - The third portion of The
Elegant Universe is the best [String 3]…
Einstein revolutioned our thinking about gravity because he said gravity
warps space and nothing can exceed the speed of light.
Einstein was swepped under by the discovery of quantum mechanics which
said we are life in an uncertain universe (Buddha says that too). It introduces
Ed Witten to us in his monumental Southern California lecture about string
theory clearing up how 5 string theories are one theory; “M Theory” which is
responsible for saying our universe is a BRANE (Membranes
[the 11 dimension, degrees of freedom]).
The M Theory, 11 degrees of
freedom says that have Membranes (BRANES) and our universe
is a BRANE. Branes are shacked up and constitute slices of bread in a “loaf”
(THE BULK – Buddha said there are many universes and we are one among many).
Why we can’t contact branes [gravitons].
Dr.
The Way does not need cultivation - just don’t defile it. Zen does not need study - the important thing is stopping the mind.
HUANG-LONG
Consciousness is the knowing faculty of the mind. "Knowing" does not refer to knowledge we acquire about something, like learning to drive a car or taking a course in chemistry, but rather to the immediate direct recognizing of the object itself - knowing a sight, a sound, a thought.
- Joseph Goldstein
An important question is, "Why should manifested life at different stages of evolution emerge out of the
Absolute Reality which is infinite?" The answer is that manifested life arises out of the impetus in the
Absolute to become conscious of itself.
- Meher Baba
You live in illusion and the appearance of things.
There is reality, but you do not know this.
When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing.
And being nothing, you are everything.
That is all.
- Kalu Rinpoche
Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something.
What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life.
But there’s something wrong with the world but you don’t know what it is, but it’s there.
Like a splinter in your mind. It’s driving you mad.
You want to Wake Up! I want to free your mind. All I’m offering is the truth.
- The Matrix ( Morpheus in the Movie)
Actually, in truth there isn't anything to human beings. Whatever we may be it's only
in the realm of appearances. If we take away the apparent and see the
Transcendent we see that there isn't anything there. There are simply the universal
characteristics -- birth in the beginning, change in the middle and cessation in the
end. This is all there is. If we see that all things are like this then no problems arise.
If we understand this we will have contentment and peace.
- Ajahn Chah
Karma means you don't get away with anything.
- Buddha
"Reality is an Illusion"
"And the basic idea of being reborn is that you erase the memory.
Everyone is interconnected, and you're working out your karma with people -
so you get erased, but all of the work left undone has to be completed."
- Uma Thurman
Meditation is not thinking about things.
- Joseph Goldstein
Wisdom is very different from intellectual ability.
- David F. Vennells
At the point when sleep has not yet come and wakefulness vanishes, being is revealed.
Rick Strassman, M.D., DMT The Spirit Molecule, 2001
Mystical States Pg. 234-235
In order to establish the close similarities between spiritual experience and what is possible with the spirit molecule, I will first review briefly the features of a mystical experience.
The three pillars of self, time, and space all undergo profound transfiguration in a mystical experience.
There no longer is any separation between the self and what is not the self. Personal identity and all of existence become one and the same. In fact, there is no "personal" identity because we understand at the most basic level the underlying unity and interdependence of all existence.
Past, present, and future merge together into a timeless moment, the now of eternity. Time stops, in as much as it no longer "passes." There is existence, but it is not dependent upon time. Now and then, before and after, all combine into this exact point. On the relative level, short periods of time encompass enormous amounts of experience.
As our self and time lose their boundaries, space becomes vast. Like
time, space is no longer here or there but everywhere, limitless, without edges. Here and there are the same. It is all here.In this infinitely vast time and space with no limited self, we hold up to examination all contradictions and paradoxes and see they no longer
conflict. We can hold, absorb, and accept everything our mind conjures up: good and evil, suffering and happiness, small and large. We now are certain that consciousness continues after the body dies, and that it existed long before this particular physical form. We see the entire universe in a blade of grass and know what our face was like before our parents met.Extraordinarily powerful feelings surge through our consciousness. We are ecstatic, and the intensity of this joy is such that our body cannot contain it - it seems to need a temporarily disembodied state. While the bliss is pervasive, there's also an underlying peace and equanimity that's not affected by even this incredibly profound happiness.
There is a searing sense of the sacred and the holy. We contact an unchanging, unborn, undying, and uncreated reality. It is a personal encounter with the "Big Bang," God, Cosmic Consciousness, the source of all being. Whatever we call it, we know we have met the fundamental bedrock and fountainhead of existence, one that emanates love, wisdom, and power on an unimaginable scale.
We call it "enlightenment" because we encounter the white light of creation's majesty. We may meet guides, angels, or other disembodied spirits, but we pass them all as we merge with the light. Our eyes now, finally, are truly open, and we see things clearly in a "new light."
The import and momentousness of the experience stands alone in our history. It may serve to focus the rest of our life toward the completion, filling out, and working through of the insights obtained.