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There's a recent video you can search, a woman walking out the door of her apartment building. A young man sneaks up behind her and puts a bullet in her head.
by ta8645 3y ago
There's a recent video you can search, a woman walking out the door of her apartment building. A young man sneaks up behind her and puts a bullet in her head. She died.
She didn't have to have any thought about the bullet. She didn't have to think ANYTHING about the physical world. Nothing about her state of mind affected the outcome.
Physical reality is independent of what we think of it.
> Maybe they really do see differently to you
I appreciate you think you see it differently. But your actions show you don't believe it as deeply as you think you do. You are a prisoner of the physical realm, not an inhabitant of a higher, more spiritual, plane. What good is it saying something is imaginary, if it affects everything you do, and you can't escape it. That sounds like something very real indeed.
- bowsamic 3y agoI can’t really infer anything about the internal world of the woman. Also according to Buddhism the state of her mind would affect into which realm she was reborn after death, and arguably getting shot itself was a manifestation of her mental state. Yogachara philosophy of Buddhism says that all appearances of external reality is created by our internal world
- ta8645 3y ago> I can’t really infer anything The point of the video, is that she had zero awareness of the bullet. It all happened in 2 seconds without attracting her attention. I'm sure if you're honest, you can think of 1000 other examples as well. Physical reality proceeds without your thoughts, it will continue after you and I die, it doesn't need our feelings or thoughts to exists and persist. > Yogachara philosophy of Buddhism says... Tony the Tiger says, "They're great!!"
- bowsamic 3y ago> Physical reality proceeds without your thoughts, it will continue after you and I die, it doesn't need our feelings or thoughts to exists and persist. Sorry, I simply don’t believe in this.
- ta8645 3y agoMy belief is it is unfounded and ultimately based in narcissism. "I am so important that I create the external reality, I really am the center of the universe, it wouldn't exist without my mind" It's an appeal to self-importance. It can't account for something like the fossil record, that existed before any human was on the planet; other than to say, "I dreamed that up in my own special imaginary fiction!!" Perhaps the primal nature of the world isn't physical matter, but to pretend that we create reality with our mind, is not only silly, it's dangerous and flies in the face of how everyone, even those who claim to believe otherwise, actually act in the world.
- bowsamic 3y agoWell, only deluded beings (including myself) act that way. Buddhas and bodhisattvas don’t. Indeed they can bend so called “physical reality” to their will, manifesting physical bodies and appearances in the minds of others. It’s just simply the following: form is emptiness, emptiness is form
- ta8645 3y agoWell, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one; time will tell. Wish you all the best. Thank you for talking with me.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agothe parent, bowsamic, is incorrect. This is not what Buddhism teaches.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoThat is NOT what the Buddha taught. It is expressly the opposite. Promoting these types of wrong understandings really distract people from further learning. This turns people away from further investigations that might help them. People that might be aided in their suffering by learning more about buddhism, read some weirdness posted about "buddha can earth bend, whoooo, I learned about buddhism from watching Avatar, I'm a bender", and are completely turned away. Read and meditate further before promoting something that is incorrect.