Tag: Buddhism
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Lungs
Trees don’t have a heart but they breathe. Maybe the Buddhists already thought of this and hence why we focus on the breath when meditating. I don’t think so though, I think it’s just easier to control the breath and our thoughts through the breath. I don’t understand when people tell me to listen to…
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I’ll be back
A possible explanation for re-incarnation, but not how it’s explained in current religions. Once you die time has no meaning. Like going to sleep. In the same way you had no concept of how much time passed until you ended up in the body you are now. How long did those last 13+ billion years…
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Antidote
In Buddhism they have a concept of antidotes. Klaus Barbie, was truly a Satan walking amongst us. But he had an antidote. Marcel Marceau. The Butcher of Lyon and a butcher’s son from Strasbourg who went on to be a world famous mime artist. Marcel Marceau ended up in Lyon where Barbie carried out his…
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Cake is the answer to life the universe and everything
Science and religion are glorified cooking. Speaking to a friend of mine, who is following the teachings of a Lama, he described to me how one one of the fundamental principles of Buddhism is repeatability. In many of the Buddhist teachings such as searching for the ego that they say isn’t there, the point is…
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Fumblings about compassion
“One with compassion is kind even when angry one without compassion will kill as he smiles.” Shabkar – Tibetan poet I went to Krakow, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II – Birkenau. It was surprising how un-horrifying it was. Birkenau was certainly bleak but its very hard to picture in my my mind the terror of…
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