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syncro
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Re: What are your thoughts on this line of thinking? [Re: syncro]
#28520625 - 10/27/23 09:12 PM (2 months, 30 days ago) |
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Prayer is not a one time thing. It should be like regular practice until fulfilled. There it is honed. Martial arts don't work. Even three years is pretty noobish, the black belt just beginning to learn. Tennis pros didn't try it once or twice and say it doesn't work - 10 years later they are bearing fruit under the lights.
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AnattaAtman
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Re: What are your thoughts on this line of thinking? [Re: syncro]
#28520971 - 10/28/23 09:50 AM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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syncro said: Martial arts don't work. Even three years is pretty noobish, the black belt just beginning to learn.
I think martial arts work, if you are a monk. By training the body to the utmost limit, you also necessarily train the mind, which, ultimately, gives you a satori experience. I don't know if monks practice for gaining a belt, or if that is a western thing. People here tend to do martial arts for self defense or fitness, when, in fact, you have to practice for achieving enlightenment. It's the same with Yoga: They call it Power Yoga, and practice for fitness. In reality, spiritual yoga is meant to be a path to enlightenment.
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durian_2008
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Re: What are your thoughts on this line of thinking? [Re: AnattaAtman]
#28520982 - 10/28/23 10:03 AM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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The Bizarre World of Fake Martial Arts
This and all other arcane trades would collapse, as soon as failure is punished and not subject to debate or moral equivalence.
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durian_2008
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Re: What are your thoughts on this line of thinking? [Re: durian_2008]
#28520988 - 10/28/23 10:09 AM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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A couple of channels are saying that the end of the world is today.
For people taking that deadpan literally, it's a pass or fail proposition.
If you want it to have the same gravitas as physical law, there will be rules like for any mainstream science.
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AnattaAtman
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Re: What are your thoughts on this line of thinking? [Re: durian_2008]
#28521012 - 10/28/23 10:58 AM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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I can't open the video file. Care to summarize what it's about?
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syncro
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Re: What are your thoughts on this line of thinking? [Re: AnattaAtman]
#28521075 - 10/28/23 11:58 AM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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AnattaAtman said:
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syncro said: Martial arts don't work. Even three years is pretty noobish, the black belt just beginning to learn.
I think martial arts work, if you are a monk. By training the body to the utmost limit, you also necessarily train the mind, which, ultimately, gives you a satori experience. I don't know if monks practice for gaining a belt, or if that is a western thing. People here tend to do martial arts for self defense or fitness, when, in fact, you have to practice for achieving enlightenment. It's the same with Yoga: They call it Power Yoga, and practice for fitness. In reality, spiritual yoga is meant to be a path to enlightenment.
I was saying martial arts don't work as sarcasm, associating with saying prayer doesn't work, but can take long practice. I was half-present, not liking that I used sarcasm without humor.
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Blue Cthulhu
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Re: What are your thoughts on this line of thinking? [Re: durian_2008]
#28521630 - 10/28/23 08:36 PM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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durian_2008 said: A couple of channels are saying that the end of the world is today.
Yes I felt that happen too!
-------------------- "Things are true that I forget, but no one taught that to me yet." A disembodied-re-embodied consciousness be-ing (With all the accoutrements.)
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AnattaAtman
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Re: What are your thoughts on this line of thinking? [Re: syncro]
#28521926 - 10/29/23 02:50 AM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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syncro said: I was saying martial arts don't work as sarcasm
I see. You should use a smiley next time..
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