01-26-2008, 09:45 AM
>>The Dalai Lama lived by those rules, and what'd it get him?
No rules, just precepts. :^) Maybe you need to know the difference. What did it get the Dali Lama? Which one? There were a few that had unconditional happiness. Even the 14th is content with the Chinese breathing down his neck.
>>And how did you escape a seething village or life as a begging monk, a little "worldly" aren't we!
Still in this world, but not suffering. There is no escape. Learn that and the need for escape drop away.
But still, recreationally smoking pot is unskillful. True?
Metta and Mahalo,
Do not follow a life of evil; do not live heedlessly; do not have false views; do not value worldly things. In this way one can get rid of suffering. - The Dhammapada
No rules, just precepts. :^) Maybe you need to know the difference. What did it get the Dali Lama? Which one? There were a few that had unconditional happiness. Even the 14th is content with the Chinese breathing down his neck.
>>And how did you escape a seething village or life as a begging monk, a little "worldly" aren't we!
Still in this world, but not suffering. There is no escape. Learn that and the need for escape drop away.
But still, recreationally smoking pot is unskillful. True?
Metta and Mahalo,
Do not follow a life of evil; do not live heedlessly; do not have false views; do not value worldly things. In this way one can get rid of suffering. - The Dhammapada
Do not follow a life of evil; do not live heedlessly; do not have false views; do not value worldly things. In this way one can get rid of suffering. - The Dhammapada