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What do I do when i overcame this world by not even trying but then it left me
In 2008 I was in a near accident were I was inspired to go to a book store and ask the employee to pick me out an inspiring book. I was very pleased as I began to read and shortly I began to feel light and vibrations enter my body. I began to give my things away and buy people things,thus it felt li...
In 2008 I was in a near accident were I was inspired to go to a book store and ask the employee to pick me out an inspiring book. I was very pleased as I began to read and shortly I began to feel light and vibrations enter my body. I began to give my things away and buy people things,thus it felt like I was in a state of bliss. There was no judging no trying to achieve anything. Now I was a happy person before but this felt holy . I began to walk the streets and ask if I could pray for/with them. Then an inner voice told me to do things like one instance I was told to follow the sun and I'd know where to go. Well it was a church and I began to cry and went into the church were a man was sitting. I put my hand on his knee and he startled and said this man is aa saint. It scared me. I wasn't eating and placed in a hospital. I'm forced to take medicine I hate and am miserable. What now....I can't go back in time,plus I remember praying to take on others pain. Plz help.so much more happened as well
Mike East
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Feb 1, 2025, 11:48 PM
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Parralels between Nietzschean morallity and Buddhism and their paths towards enlightenment
At first glance both of them might seem like 2 fundamentally diametrical opposites. Nietzsche believed that a fundamental truth of life was that "the strong always oppress the weak", and that morality is simply another means through which this is achieved (Christian morality vs the nobility). Throug...
At first glance both of them might seem like 2 fundamentally diametrical opposites. Nietzsche believed that a fundamental truth of life was that "the strong always oppress the weak", and that morality is simply another means through which this is achieved (Christian morality vs the nobility). Throughout his books, he heavily critizes the idea, that an objective truth and morality exists. He therefore rejects the absolute value of morality and comes up with the will of power, which ultimately guides all behaviour. The Ubermensch is the person who lets his behaviour be guided by the will of power and is not contstrained by morality, the idea of The Overman being the Nietzschean interpretation of Enlightenment, you could say.
Ultimately, a striking similarity between them is the lack of objective morals - according to buddhism, what is deemed good or not is relative to whether it brings an individual towards enlightenment or not, meaning that it rejects the idea of objective morality (corect me if im wrong). I think that both philosophies perceive morality in an utilitarian perspective, not an objective one. They both make the individual want to strive towards enlightenment, the means through which it's achieved being subjective and relative to each individual.
zeozea
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Apr 9, 2024, 10:45 AM
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Cultivating Rapture
How is one supposed to develop rapture? It doesn't seem like something you can just decide to attain. Any states that or may not have been rapture that Ive ever experienced happened during retreat when meditating all day everyday and even then it seemed to have happened by itself not because I was t...
How is one supposed to develop rapture? It doesn't seem like something you can just decide to attain. Any states that or may not have been rapture that Ive ever experienced happened during retreat when meditating all day everyday and even then it seemed to have happened by itself not because I was trying to make it happen.
Sati
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Jan 25, 2024, 02:16 AM
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