Dani Bedrac - Thubten Nyingje - Sittin' on the dock of the bay...

Sittin' on the dock of the bay...

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:04:26 PM

...and nothing is goin' on within my mind! Even maybe some questions about my debts (early in the morning). I don't know, how to get rid of them. But at this very moment I do not care.
Today it seems, that it is enough to be alive.

At the beginning there were questions...About faith

Comments

Shyam Madhavan Saradareincarnut # Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:26:44 AM

hey dani, is it really? do you really believe that it is enough to be alive? i mean if it were, do you think it would be a good thing to say renounce everything and live in the jungles or the mountains?

i mean no offence

but i wanted to engage in a discussion on it if you are up to it. i do not believe in any particular religion, but i am kind of spiritual. i have been thinking for a while now and i more or less think we tend to be frightened of responsibilty more than anything else.

cause-effect, karma... that kind of thing. someone once said: "the harder i worked, the luckier i got". somewhat of a paradox but it makes so much sense...

is life based on the law of averages then?

oops, i think i'm trying to say too much in too little space

let's see where this goes.

Dani Bedrac - Thubten NyingjeNyingje # Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:56:47 AM

Hi, reincarnut!
A little misunderstanding: I said that "TODAY it seems that it is enough to be alive". Not every day or even the whole life!
Because (as an initiated buddhist) I have my everyday's obligations (meditations, practices, Mantras...) and I'm working with computers as well. A lot! Making web sites, installing systems... to survive. I lost my job in April this year. But there is a day sometimes (like sunday...), when I decide to do nothing. That's it.
I'm glad, that you like such discusions and I'm happy to share my opinion with others.
In short about Karma (please feel free to re-interpretate all this, I'm speaking as a buddhist): we all have a free will and it's up to us, what to do, how to decide, how to act... Here is the point: all that appear (situations, contacts...) is just a result of our pre-accumulated Karma seeds (we use such words). But it is up to us (because of our free will - we have it by default...), how to act. And we have a great responsibility, because with our acion we will collect bad or good Karma and we should experience result in the future!
The life is not based on the law of averages, it's based on the Emptynes (at least we believe so...) and the life "is going on" based on our (good or bad) Karma.
Uh... Am I too long?
Have a nice day.