tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8690635.post110266293921241568..comments2023-04-04T14:08:20.514+00:00Comments on Luminous Emptiness - a Mahamudra Blog: Where Do Thoughts Come From?Chodpahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533282351557497598noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8690635.post-1103100511854770502004-12-15T08:48:00.000+00:002004-12-15T08:48:00.000+00:00"kids and spouses are great Dharma teachers"
If y..."kids and spouses are great Dharma teachers"<br /><br />If you allow them to be !!!!<br /><br />:-)Chodpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533282351557497598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8690635.post-1102955176473621342004-12-13T16:26:00.000+00:002004-12-13T16:26:00.000+00:00Greetings Chodpa.
This is Jacqui, from the Kagyu ...Greetings Chodpa.<br /><br />This is Jacqui, from the Kagyu group. The interesting thing about being married is that you have a layer of habitual behavior that runs deeper than almost anything. My husband and I talk about this all the time. It's not such a matter of "who" is being pushed, as it is that the habitual cycle of allowing one's button to be pushed is in place. <br /><br />For example, all I have to do is mention moving furniture and my dear hubby gets defensive. We've fought about it before so that is his habitual response.<br /><br />I try ... often unsuccessfully ... to hear the message rather than protecting myself automatically. Is he "pushing my buttons" because he's frustrated and wants release? Is he trying to say something important but isn't doing it skillfully? How do I tell him he's being hurtful and table it for later without blowing my stack? <br /><br />Kids and spouses are great dharma teachers, aren't they? :)<br /><br />Metta,<br />JacquiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8690635.post-1102835106525336462004-12-12T07:05:00.000+00:002004-12-12T07:05:00.000+00:00We only think the thought "where do thoughts come ...We only think the thought "where do thoughts come from" outside of meditation ....<br /><br />In meditation .... direct seeing ...... no further thoughts are generated by just looking .... and thoughts self liberate and subside of their own accord :-)<br /><br />Outside of meditation, reflecting now, 2 days later .. did they arise at all? Where are they? ... are they any different from the dream I had last night? Where has that gone? They both had a sense of 'realness' at the time, but what substance remains of either? Both resonate, and leave an emotional echo, but was either more or less real than the other? .... both empty arisings .....Chodpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533282351557497598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8690635.post-1102751527535553582004-12-11T07:52:00.000+00:002004-12-11T07:52:00.000+00:00It's dizzying. You think the thought "Where do tho...It's dizzying. You think the thought "Where do thoughts come from?" and that's a thought, too. I can imagine synapses firing in my head like some kind of electrical storm, as if there is intelligence in lightening (enlightening?).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08233472492675055779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8690635.post-1102689426386522992004-12-10T14:37:00.000+00:002004-12-10T14:37:00.000+00:00Hi Al, many thanks for the link.
:-)Hi Al, many thanks for the link.<br /><br />:-)Chodpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533282351557497598noreply@blogger.com