[MD] emptiness

[MarshaV]

Hi Mark,

It can be so hard to start a meditation practice.  In the beginning the mind is so active and restless.  One must endure a lot of frustration until it begins to calm down, but eventually it does calm down.  Eventually it does calm down.


Marsha 
 
 
 
 
On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:43 PM, 118 wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> A flash perhaps, but one has to prepare for it.  That is what the teachings of Buddhism are for, else wise they would not exist.  Mindfulness is one technique, I am glad that you like it, but it is not an end result, IMO.  Buddhism is verified in the same way everything is.  It is the gathering of satisfactory evidence.
> 
> Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
> Mark
> 
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:13 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Mark,
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Dec 19, 2011, at 2:39 AM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> My suggestion is that you read a few comprehensive books on Buddhism
>>> before you begin to try to analyze it.  I am sure that Marsha has some
>>> good web sites for people such as Wallace.  He is trying to create a
>>> Western Buddhism that we can perhaps understand.  However, those
>>> interested are going to have to unlearn an awful lot.  All the
>>> schooling we have been indoctrinated with from a very young age does
>>> leave its mark.
>> 
>> The best justification for Buddhism is found in the verification discovered through the practice of meditation/mindfulness.  If the Buddha taught anything, it was mindfulness.  You can unlearn everything in a flash, that is the beginning of awakening, imho.  Do you disagree?
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha



 
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