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Eating healthy plant-based foods will reduce the risk of COVID infection and its severity, a study finds.
The protective effect of a healthy plant-based diet against COVID appears to be even greater for those living in deprived areas.
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Like a parrot waiting patiently for silk-cotton fruit to ripen, you persist in your suffering. - Ramana Maharshi, Guruvachaka Kovai
Silk-cotton tree fruit doesn’t change color when it ripens.
When perfectly ripe, it’s green.
A parrot waiting for this fruit to ripen will be disappointed - the fruit will fall off the tree while he waits.
When we meditate to attain enlightenment, we wait for fruit to ripen that is already ripe.
Existence-consciousness-bliss is always present, but we won't accept it.
Working toward it is another form of resistance.
The world itself is an illusory distraction from infinite reality.
An imaginary ladder can’t get you back to the place you never left!
Only be as you are - the ever-present reality, pure consciousness, simple existence.
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E n my opinion enlightment is progressive but not conscient. IT BECOMES CONSCIENT when the realization of something that was there already becomes evident. I am 82 and all my life I have tried to understand what was enlightment. I FOUND A DEGREE OF Enlightment by reflexion and self examination. I could already establish a spiritual contact with nature, then I felt that it was my ego stopping my evolution. One morning I found that the most different thing to me and my body was a stone Ora rock, but when I thought of my ones made with the same material, something opened in my mind and in my heart, I could feel through my pores the whole universe.
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Thank you, Ayush. This is a wonderful question for advanced meditators, referring back to Patanjali’s very first sutra: “Yogas chitta vrittti nirodaha,” Yoga (union, is-ness, wholeness) is the cessation of the vrittis - ripples in the mind-stuff. It is often translated as cessation of ‘thoughts,’ but as Ayush notes here, resting in the Witness behind the thoughts, judgments, emotions and desires, we soon see all of them as nothing but mere sensations - rising & passing phenomena that have no intrinsic meaning or ‘need to respond’ of their own. Indeed, at one point this one started to see them as empty ripples…nothing more.
Yes, there may appear to be something still ‘aware’ of the base sensation and the gaps.
No, it’s not important to label it (mind,) or isolate it.
Whether “we” call it ‘mind,’ ‘another latent part of my mind,’ ‘pure awareness,’ the Witness, or one of the many Buddhist terms for levels of mind observation (Dhammānupassanā, Cittānupassanā, Sattipathana) or whatever, is not important.
What can be important for the advanced meditator, is the realization that what still appears to be present at that point is subject-object. “Something (subject) remains aware of those sensations/gaps (objects.) So there is still duality and a sense, albeit more subtle, of a ‘separate entity,’ an “I,” perceiving objects outside or inside of “itself.”
Which instantly makes your last question, “How should I proceed further?” into an oxymoron. It is the very remaining perception of “yourself” as a separate “I” and the desire for that “I” to go ‘further’….that is preventing you from proceeding further :-)
Obviously, that desire is for the “personal I” to reach a ‘higher state,’ it’s own “personal enlightenment or bliss.” And obviously, any “personal” desire can only inflate and perpetuate the ego-sense. “You” cannot proceed any further. “You” must die, must be willing to totally dissolve (which is an illusion because ”you” never existed as a separate entity with it’s own free will in the first place.:-)
And paradoxically, “you” cannot cause that. Anything “you” would attempt would only reinforce the illusion of a separate “you.”
So what can “you” do?
Just let go…
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ZEN witnessing the mind’s content objectively” cool, can you bite your own teeth too?
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If “I” let go of “you”, it is the “I” that still remains. Then you will tell me to let go of that “I” and it will again be that “I” that still remains,….ad infinitum. So, “letting go” won’t do.
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Because you insist that whatever we do, you say, here is the “me”, here is the “I”, so it isn’t gonna work. So when you say, “ you will have to let go as the “final straw”, then I will have to bring up “who is letting go?” So, it itself says “ somebody will be letting go”, so I will say, “T, you’re still having “somebody” in there and it can’t be right”. So since it goes “ad infinitum” maybe that is the way to follow through until the intensity of the “somebodiness” gradually diminishes until it is no more and there is no more of an argument to continue on.
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t’s all ‘poetic pointing,’ non-teachers doing the best they can with human language to counsel non-students. God talking to God about things God already knows and needs no reminding. Why so literal, Swami?
But this is a golden opportunity for “you,” S, to examine your addiction to mind, to breaking things down through that deductive mind, and how this addiction-to-mind causes you to waste a lot of time debating a totally moot point on Quora instead of just…letting go’:-)
Is not letting go another doing? This is where my struggle is. I know that I am the Awareness through actual experience. But there are lots of life situations where emotions like anger just take over. It’s just like a kid who has learnt biking and is able to handle heavy traffic but when traffic becomes overwhelming, the balance is lost.
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Rinpoche explains that having this one-time opportunity makes us unbelievably fortunate—a perfect human rebirth is more precious than the whole sky filled with wish-granting jewels. This is because even skies of wish-granting jewels don’t have the power to purify our negative karma and save us from the lower realms, nor can they give us liberation from samsara and enlightenment, but having a perfect human rebirth can do this.
We have been creating negative karma from beginningless rebirths, which is why it is so important to do purification practices in this life—before our negative karma ripens. Once it ripens, there’s nothing we can do; we must experience the result. Therefore, we need to do a purification practice every day. There are many practices we can do for purification, including Vajrasattva practice, prostrations to the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas, and others. Although these formal purification practices are extremely effective in purifying our negative karma, Rinpoche explains that the most powerful thing we can do to purify our negative karma is to follow our guru’s advice and please our guru. But if we don’t realize how valuable and important these practices are and that having a perfect human rebirth gives us the perfect opportunity to do them, we might think it is better to spend our time at the beach swimming in the water like a fish!
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