tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post7621184603844460600..comments2024-02-06T22:19:13.028-08:00Comments on Mining Aśvaghoṣa's Gold: BUDDHACARITA 6.37: Levels of WorryingMike Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-54214383462303028502013-07-20T13:26:59.820-07:002013-07-20T13:26:59.820-07:00I appreciate your efforts, Mike.
Your advice is r...<br />I appreciate your efforts, Mike.<br /><br />Your advice is right on the money too. I think there's even a slogan for that: Don't figure others out.<br /><br />Thanks.真行 https://www.blogger.com/profile/09275768134243230516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-76920189842984285572013-07-20T01:04:51.804-07:002013-07-20T01:04:51.804-07:00Fucking hell, Gisela!
I'm knocking the marro...Fucking hell, Gisela! <br /><br />I'm knocking the marrow out of Aśvaghoṣa's bones with these translations and comments, and all the thanks I get from you is psycho-babble about the ego. <br /><br />Talk abuot looking a gift horse in the mouth...<br /><br />Why don't you enjoy Aśvaghoṣa's teaching for what it is, and leave the personal stuff out. Mike Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-77152811897277571722013-07-19T19:12:34.032-07:002013-07-19T19:12:34.032-07:00What does accepting the self and using the self we...What does accepting the self and using the self well feel like? <br /><br />Is there a difference in accepting and using the self well when cycling and when interacting with others? Being unself-conscious with an open heart or open awareness, as opposed to looking for a way to establish ‘self’? <br /><br />It’s difficult to tell in these on-line interactions which of those this comment is. Oft times when you’ve talked about your past, I’ve wanted you to be able to get free of your disappointments in life. Not only because that’s what I wish that for myself. I also wish it for you so that you are, if not happier, at least living more at ease.<br /><br />Perhaps I’ve been insensitive to what you want, which in fact may be to hold onto that suffering – and that sounds like ego. If it’s ego, it’s not consistent with my sense of what Buddha meant by aham. <br /><br />If you ever realize you no longer want to hold onto that suffering, it’s not that the ego disappears rather the suffering transforms into the energy of bodhicitta. It’s not instantaneous, it’s a kind of “dropping off.” I’m re-familiarizing myself with these teachings recently -- probably because I didn’t absorb the lesson thoroughly enough back in the days when I first learned it. The fact that that may have been a cause for extra harm to you is part of my motivation.<br />真行 https://www.blogger.com/profile/09275768134243230516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-18610555845076761172013-07-19T15:26:29.964-07:002013-07-19T15:26:29.964-07:00Ego is a Latin word that means I -- as in I cycled...<br />Ego is a Latin word that means I -- as in I cycled to the shops yesterday, which as a matter of fact I did. <br /><br />In Sanskrit the word is aham. When the Buddha said aham he meant "I" -- the whole of himself. <br />Mike Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-15656194102733916732013-07-19T13:42:27.020-07:002013-07-19T13:42:27.020-07:00Hi Mike -
What you wrote today and yesterday has ...Hi Mike -<br /><br />What you wrote today and yesterday has been on my mind. <br /><br />Life presents difficulties to every sentient being during the course of their lives. Both of us have had our share. Isn't the true battle actually with ourselves, with our own egos? Isn't it our own egos that get in the way of the healing that true self allows? Having compassion for and forgiving our own egos is an important step, in my view anyway.<br /><br />真行 https://www.blogger.com/profile/09275768134243230516noreply@blogger.com