Reply #16: that is the way the world works, your mind latently creates your reality [View All]

[sam sarrha]

.. bad Karma is what happens when you influence other people to with you on your bad acid trip into Hell.

in my Buddhist practice book there is a 'Declaration" that goes like this..
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"From beginning-less samsara, in this and other lives, i have unwittingly committed many non-virtues or caused others to do the same.
Bewildered by the confusion of my ignorance, i have rejoiced in my own and others non-virtue. Seeing these mistakes, I declare all tho you protectors from the depth of my heart."
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i really like that part.. It is what helped me to quit drinking.. it helped me with the guilt and shame of 30 years of being an asshole obnoxious drunk.. which i found to be the major obstacle to sobriaty.. it also helps socially to stay positive, lacking the social skills that most people developed during the 30 i was only involved in aquiring and consuming alcohol.

after 3 years of attening 2 Dhama class a week and saturday meditation classes, and monthly meditation retreats..... i sitting was in a group meditation and had a "revelation" myself....

I realized that Buddhism was a lot like an A.A. Meeting for people Addicted to Conventional Thought.