Linkhttp://glidingdove.multiply.com/journal/item/4/In-the-footsteps-of-the-Buddha
ABHA FINALLY GOT SOME TIME TO WRITE A VIEW ON "In the footsteps of the Buddha". I think all my friends in the BT (Buddhist Travelers Group) will like to read it - so please click on the Link thing above and do read her comments.
Deepak
4 comments:
Thank you so much Abha for your comments on the article "In the footsteps of the Buddha" I enjoyed reading it very much, and particularly enjoyed your brief comparison of Hindu and Buddhist thought.
I don't know whether or not you read BT blogs ( you don't have to be a member to do so), for I just posted a video on the topic by Sogyal Rinpoche. that might interest you. I am also putting the link to it here, so you can go direct to the source if that is more convenient for you.
Once again, it was a pleasure to read your views.
Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw7Lo4zUAS4&feature=relate
Thanks for the link, Deepak.. I enjoyed reading it.
Ahba says:
The article “How to live a more meaningful life inspired by the Tibetan Book of Living & Dying” is very enlightening. A very lucid understanding of “EGO” emerges after reading this article. It explains how the “TRUE SELF” is “PURE AWARENESS” and must not be mistaken for traits, which are transient. Feeling good or bad is also acquired awareness. PURE AWARENESS (or if I may call it CONSCIOUSNESS) is “insubstantial and without identity” and therefore beyond the the purview of the cognizant mind. The GITA (The holy book of the Hindus where Lord Krishna gives a discourse about the philosophy of life to Arjuna (One of the Pandava’s) also explains the same understanding of PURE AWARENESS or CONSCIOUSNESS as separate from material and sensual self. It says I (the enlightened ones) AM CONSCIOUSNESS, and I see the world, the existence, pass by as a spectator and am not impacted by the positivity or the negativity.
The Gita as well this blog say, fundamentally, the same thing. Examine this passage from this article QUOTE – ” being in our natural and pure awareness is not just a solitary state that is removed from life, but that it can be integrated into all aspects of our lives. We can learn to perceive forms, sounds, smells, touch, tastes, thoughts or feelings with our full being. UNQUOTE.
In this context. the GITA conveys that in order to exist in a state of pure consciousness, one does not need to renounce the world. One can continue performing one’s duties and responsibilities with detachment while one’s consciousness remains only a spectator of one's thoughts, feelings and actions. One can construe this to mean that one can attain this state of consciousness or ‘pure awareness’ by performing one’s Karma with total commitment, without any expectation or anticipation of results.
"Kindness is as kindness does, my Momma used to say." F.Gump
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