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Post by reformed on Jan 5, 2009 19:10:25 GMT -5
I always had a certain interest in zen buddhism but it somehow seemed unfulfilling. After watching the starwars movies I became interested in sith training. I studied everything I could get my hands on looking for the key to the force. I was looking for the powers that I saw in the movies even though I had my doubts. Still I stuck with it meditating on rage and fury just as my master had commanded. It lost me the things which had been useful to me like my job for starters. I've decided that rage destroys my life before it could ever be used to destroy my enemies. I'm not as interested in learning telekinesis or anything. I want to learn how to find peace and how I might become one with the force one day.
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Post by JeRegretRiens on Jan 6, 2009 5:54:11 GMT -5
I was interested in Buddhism as well, but something about it (no idea what!) was outright frightening to me about it. I left it behind with what I'd almost call gratitude.
Personally...no offense, but any master that would have you meditate on the -emotions- of rage and fury is a bit shady in my book. Perhaps the nature of such emotions, the causes...I don't know. But like I said, it's my opinion, nothing more nothing less.
I think we're pretty similar, really. Peace is my goal as well.
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Post by Mrs. Darth Vader on Jan 13, 2009 1:11:13 GMT -5
Reformed
Meditations are for calming purposes. Peace is a good goal in a meditation. It is not good to stuff the emotions. Stuffing the emotions only leads to sickness and disease. Here is where the atheists are your best teachers because they do not believe in stifling any emotions or purposely churning any up either. Carl Sagan advised flowing with your emotions. If you need to cry than do it. If you are angry than be angry until it goes away on its own. If happy smile and laugh. This is genuine living and the most healthy for any organism. Animals never suppress their emotions and they have less diseases in the wild than we do except when we come and pollute their environment. You should always fallow your own path. If you are uncomfortable with one master than find another if that is what you want. You could also teach your self through books. Barns and Nobel book store offers many books on religions and their practices. They range from just the theology to hard core magical practices and meditations. In short you can find good instruction in the book store. It is slower this way but you are in complete control. No one tells you what to do or what to believe in a book. You read study many religions and make your own choice. You can even read physics books and learn hard science. By reading for your self you empower your self and make your own choice. You can pick the religion that best suits you or choose to be an atheist and believe none of it. You can choose agnosticism, meaning that you do not know weather God exists or not, if you like. The bottom line is you get to choose and run your own path. It is ok to have a master if that is what you want but always reserve your right to free choice.
Katie
You had a natural fear of Buhdhism interesting. I read a book that said many westerners have the same fear. Do you know what scared you? Is it because the lingo expresses their belief in an odd fashion. They use terms like emptiness which sounds like the void to western ears. The language is tricky sometimes it sounds like they are as atheist as I am then in the next phrase it sounds religious. Just curious.
I am like my hero Carl Sagan I like things rigorously tested and skeptically analized and then finaly proven in the lab.
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Post by JeRegretRiens on Jan 13, 2009 6:41:47 GMT -5
To really look back on it and think, I think it was the idea of distachment. I am very much in love with my wife, I -am- attached to her, and I do NOT want to strive to disattach myself from her.
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Post by Lord competent. on Jan 23, 2016 3:05:39 GMT -5
The terms of the best way of saying it would mean so much better for life in form.
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