DWQA Questions › Tag: self-improvementFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesA practitioner asks: “As a longtime Buddhist practitioner and now a mindfulness teacher myself, I continue to struggle with trying to make sense of some of the core teachings in Buddhism. One of the three “marks of existence” that all Buddhist practices are centered around understanding through increasingly direct and deep insight/realizations on the path to enlightenment is “no self” or “not self” (annata), which includes that there is no such thing as a permanent, unchanging entity or “soul.” It is said that in his quest for enlightenment, the Buddha looked deeply for the “housebuilder,” the one behind the whole thing, this experience of “I, me, myself,” the doer, and he couldn’t find one, and found instead that all phenomena, including the experience of a fixed entity called a self or soul, were simply the result of interdependent causes and conditions coming together temporarily, including even consciousness itself, which arises temporarily to meet with sensory experiences (which includes the 6th sense of mind) and that this consciousness we experience, too, dies with the body. Of course, there is something that experiences rebirth, as Buddhism was very, very clear on that … Since the goal, enlightenment, involves the ONLY permanent death … The cessation of rebirth. One of my primary teachers stated that what gets reborn is not a “soul,” but our “habits.” I am really hoping that Creator can shed some light on these things, since the teachings of the Buddha are what I resonate with the most, and yet I am also an LHP practitioner and do believe in the divine realm and love the idea of having/being an “immortal soul.” The LHP itself I do see as basically a lovingkindness/compassion/sympathetic joy/equanimity (Divine Abodes) practice, and therefore an extension of Buddhist practice. I accept that especially because the teachings of the Buddha were not written down until hundreds of years after his death that they could have become corrupted, and that given the depth of dark manipulation on Earth they most certainly were. However, this teaching, that there is no soul, that there is no self, is basically THE most important teaching in all of Buddhism. The Suttas (sacred ancient Buddhist texts) quote the Buddha as saying, “Nothing whatsoever is to be taken as I, mine, myself. Whoever has understood this has understood all the teachings.” How are we to make sense of this?”ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Religions472 views0 answers0 votesDid the holy water itself have additional energetic properties and efficacy that made it an indispensable component for the cure? If somebody had, let’s say, opened and accidentally spilled the water, and replaced it with locally sourced water without telling the owner, would it have made ANY difference in effecting the cure?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Religions341 views0 answers0 votesIf we ask our higher self just before going to sleep to show us important past life trainings and inspirational experiences, can it help us recall such things and even retain the memory when we wake up?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Higher Self417 views0 answers0 votesYou have told us we can work with our higher selves to request reawakening past life skills we acquired. Would that be possible in the case of light being talents, like levitation, time travel, and moving objects with our mind?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Higher Self361 views0 answers0 votesMotivating people to share their abundance can be a challenge under the best of circumstances, and getting Congress to take the money away from them to help the needy is often limited by political gridlock, given that the US is actually bankrupt, burdened by unsustainable and growing debt that cannot be paid off, has decaying infrastructure, and growing health problems, with the aging moving increasingly into dementia, and even 46% of children having a chronic disease. Autism rates have doubled in the last six years to afflict one out of every 36 kids today and projections show that by 2030, one out of three children will be diagnosed somewhere on the autism spectrum. This alone is a giant economic care burden that is looming. How can we convince the American people to tolerate an ever-greater immigrant population burden?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Problems in Society345 views0 answers0 votesA viewer asks: “I believe prayer and meditation are quite similar; however, since I’ve been listening to you, this initiative strikes me as something, perhaps, not so good – or liable to be misused: Any teacher with a K-12 classroom can gain free access to a leading app for meditation and sleep. Teachers will get unlimited access to guided meditations and mindfulness exercises, including programs tailored for age groups from pre-Kindergarden through high school. The goal of this initiative is to provide teachers with the tools and resources they need to help kids to develop a lifelong capacity for greater self-awareness, concentration, patience, and resilience.” What are the benefits and risks of this practice?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Extraterrestrial Corruption of Human Institutions369 views0 answers0 votesA student, [name withheld], asks: I have been receiving “not safe to dowse” signals with my pendulum for months. I wonder why?ClosedNicola asked 6 years ago • Subconscious Mind559 views0 answers0 votes
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