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16.07.2019 - Ayya Khema and life and pain and experience etc...


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09.03.1998 - Interpretation of dali48

Everything that we have to enjoy is bound to be broken for us - for otherwise it is a tragedy when it breaks...
We rebel against the truth that everything that exists is broken - Because nothing remains, to nothing can be attached - Any attachment to ideas, prejudices, habits and customs, things and people is our own disintegration and suffering... - But if we have difficulties with the body, on whose account the most unpleasant feelings go, then do not refuse - The desire for the pleasant and the resistance to the unpleasant is what fixes us in "samsara", in the cycle of life and death... - We do not have to look for these satisfactions - Some are given to us, others are not, we accept what comes... - The Buddha has also recommended to moderate food against greed - It does not have to be fasting - The Buddha was a teacher of the middle way and avoided extremes - Extreme is rampant enjoyment, and extreme is self-torture... - I eat this meal with mindfulness - not for pleasure, not for beautification, but only to keep this body alive - so he does not suffer any damage to avoid hunger and saturation - Then I suffer no physical difficulties and have a simple life... - The automatic, instinctive reaction is to inflict pain on the other - The Buddha has compared this with the fact of lifting up glowing coals with bare hands, and throwing them at another - The fingers which lift them up are surely burned - Whether he achieves the goal, is not sure... - We feel pain - that someone does not acknowledge us, does not agree, does not praise, does not do what we want - everything hurts...
Ego minimizings: the bigger the ego, the more often it happens, because a larger surface is touched more easily - A huge ego is constantly striking somewhere and is painfully touched... - We have the peculiarity of closing ourselves off from others and instinctively avenging ourselves for ego-reduction - That does not work is clear - we can not get rid of our pain by inflicting pain to another person - but only by feeling the  ego-reduction not as a pain, but as a pleasant... - Life is quite uncertain - Death is certainly certain - For the present is nothing more than sitting... - breathing, perhaps feeling, perhaps listening... - There is nothing to consider - Life has to be experienced - Experience can only happen at this moment... (Ayya Khema)

Ayya Khema (August 25, 1923 – November 2, 1997) was a Buddhist teacher and was very active in providing opportunities for women to practice Buddhism, ...
Teacher‎: ‎Ven. Narada Maha Thera; (first ordin...
Title‎: ‎bhikkhunī
Born‎: ‎Ilse Kussel; August 25, 1923; ‎Berlin, Ger...
Died‎: ‎November 2, 1997 (aged 74)


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see dali48 and warning of neo-fascism since 1989 and Climate Change since ca. 2000 and "Banking Crisis" 2008 and poor people and social diseases and speculation and homelessness and robots etc. - instead of UBI & Ecology - Uncontrolled capitalism produces evil as bees produce...

see dali48 and Climate Change and heat waves and dryness and burning and also floods and Hurricanes etc. - since ca. 2000 and despite Copenhagen 2009 etc. - instead of #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy & UBI etc...


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