--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk" <kirk_bernha...@...> wrote:
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> > If Buddhism honors no god, then where did the Buddha come from?
> > Mom and Dad Buddha?
> > R.G.
>
> ---That's the right question to be asking, but rather, where did you come
> from, also, when and which god solved suffering, disease, pain, conflict and
> fear and death. Which Deva dissolves these issues? These are the right
> questions to be pondering. That is how Buddha came to be, not by worshipping
> gods. But by questioning their aims, motives, actuality in reality rather
> than just thinking God this God that. Nobody can surely know any of that,
> and if they do, nobody can really know that either.
>
> The real question is how can one worship a Deva and be enlightened ...and
> not be a Buddha?! Not where or who God is. If one is enlightened then they
> have become a Buddha. If Maharishi was enlightened then Maharishi was a
> Buddha. Not the other way around. the human intellect and cognition can only
> fathom so much and then the mind stops. This is called state of Buddhahood,
> when cognition and knowledge have reached their end. Nirvana.
>
> Yoga Citta Vritti Nirodaha.
>
> Buddha said pondering God questions is like being shot by an arrow and
> worrying who shot you and why. What is not needed is an answer, but a cure
> for the arrow wound. Pondering who and why and what is not going to cure the
> arrow wound. What Buddha said was there is a cure. Then he outlined it in
> his 4 Noble Truths. They are hard to beat as far as meaning goes, also
> Buddha's answers are more humanitarian than otherworldly systems. Since his
> system is grounded in the solid state of direct perception and questioning,
> and worrying little about issues of faith, hope and so on.
>
> For most people they cannot simply just live with themselves. Instead they
> must make up all kinds of high falutin secret societies with hierarchies and
> unobtainable goals to keep the mind ever engaged in ever more discursive
> ratiocination. As if by broadening the net of the mind one can someday hold
> the sky. No. Mind cannot hold anything. Let the mind go and become a Buddha.
> Otherwise you are just rebirthing the continuum of mind over and over, thus
> reifying samskara.
>
> But because different people have different tendencies and aims there are
> many Buddhisms. Not just one. Thus I am a Buddhist who practices secret
> mantra yoga. I am a Buddhist who lives in the world amongst everyone else
> hiding in plain sight. Since Buddhism deals with finalizing ones solution to
> lifes problems it is said to be the end all of religions. Some Buddhists
> know the various devas and energies, others don't. This isn't really the
> point. The point is does the mind feel satisfied and does it then open to
> direct vision. That is a Buddha then. Not anything else.
>
Well, now I see, said the 'Blind Man'...
R.g.
