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Originally Posted by AzulOscuro
What an impressive story, the one about your teacher! I always found astonishing the equilibrium, the peace of mind Tibetans monks achieve.
It’s accepting what it goes and act on it without regretting, feeling of shame or hits on the chest.
Compassion is so needed on Western World. We have been taught the idea of sacrifice, sins and the feeling of guilty as a way for a future afterlife that many times it’s hard to feel compassion especially toward ourselves. It’s very contradictory because then we only need to confess our sins, make a penitence and that’s it. All it’s solve. Nothing is learnt in my opinion or changed.
It’s curious Jesus Christ if he indeed exist and many clues draw us to his existence, showed and practice Compassion, then things took another path and the feeling of guilty and punishment were imposed.
I’m not a religious person but if I had to follow one, it would be Buddhism.
You are very lucky to have had such a great teacher.
Finally, I wanted to stress again on the point you brought out in your first post of this thread. This technique about the “ touch of light”. It’s so beautiful. I loved it so much. And we need it as we need to feed ourselves.
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The basic teachings of Jesus are so simple and beautiful. It is the same with Buddhism. The basic teachings of the Buddha are so very beautiful...like gold. But when I went to graduate school to study Buddhism I was shocked to find that as a religion it was very complicated...and what they say is salvific...that is....concerned with salvation. Also...believed to be the "one true religion," by its leaders.
How to know the exact truth of what Jesus or the Buddha taught? I wish I could travel back in time!
Today there is so much corruption in religions.
I am sorry to tell a story about another Buddhist teacher I knew. He is actually quite famous and the head of an international community. Unfortunately he was accused of sexual abuse by several of his students. He stepped away from his leadership role...however, recently he started teaching again. It is all very upsetting to me (as well as many others who think he should not teach). He was actually what is called my "root teacher" and the one who gave me a foundation in mindfulness and meditation. I would never have suspected him of not being a moral person. I must add he was a great teacher of mindfulness and wrote several books which are really great books.
I like what the Buddha said. He said you have to test everything...just as gold is tested to make sure it is authentic. It may look like gold...but could actually be another metal of no value.
Thanks for this thread. It is really inspiring me to throw myself back into mindfulness and meditation in a big way. I taught meditation for about 10 years but then retired from it...so I could now begin a new chapter.
At this time I do not consider myself at all religion based. I want to practice mindfulness without religion. Or...inspired by Jesus and Buddha...as great teachers but not religious leaders. After all...Jesus and Buddha were humble and were not trying to start religions, right?