The 8 fold path

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You're asking a very good question. It's essentially the question that the first three noble truths ask, and that the fourth noble truth answers. If there's suffering, and if there's a cause of suffering, and if there's and end to suffering, then what's the end of suffering? The Buddha's answer was the noble eightfold path: right view, right intention, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. Put more simply, if we want to end suffering it matters how we meditate, how we conduct our daily lives, and how we view the world. Does that help?

@@ZenCommunityofOregon yes, it helps somehow... not entirely though... I try to be a very lovable person and not to harm any person. This is since I know myself. I let others win if that makes them happy, but I loose all the time in this manner. Well, I feel like I was punnished severely by the life itself... I was abandoned and had many loses and pain and grieff. It comes a time when I ask myself: how many other pains do I need to suffer. Is this the only way of life? Do I need to sacrifice this life entirely or there will come eventually some light at the end of the tunnel?

​@@cameliahudson6438 "Is this the only way of life?" The short answer is "no." The eightfold path, and buddhism in general, lay out a different way. It's a lifelong undertaking that benefits greatly from the support of a community and teachers. I would encourage you to find a buddhist community somewhere near you, or online, to which you can bring this question. Without knowing you and your unique life circumstances it's difficult to offer more specific advice. We have online offerings throughout the week that allow people to connect with our teachers and our community, and to find support for this very important work. You can find the links to those meetings on our website: www.zendust.org/calendar/ If the timing of those meetings doesn't work for you, there are many more communities all around the world that have similar offerings. Find a community. Find a teacher. Keep asking the question "What is the cause of my suffering?"

and you call liberation I call self-actualization this gets rid of the illusion of escape from the cyclical nature of life, or the idea that one can truly escape desire or belief when the mind is made of concepts or beliefs and that beliefs are ultimatly desires for the universe to conform to our philosophy, I wished to disolve belief or ego to be truly objective and found the impossiblity of it, yet the self improvement from this practice of disolveing has allowed for the most personal growth, so I keep at it knowing it's probably not possible, because I am a little bit better of a person for every once I put in, always improving knowing that perfection of an egoless/beliefless self is truly impossble, I learned to love the process of growth which is important because most people ressit so heavly, loved your video.

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Dear Hue, we are all connected in many ways. We all have some of each of the realms in us. Thich Naht Han calls this 'Interbeing.'

Thank you. Hogen

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Can u describe more what they looked like?? & what language did they speak... Hey just type & search buddhist hell video... & there r animations of those hell workers which r made based on the buddhas preachings of hell... See if it aligns with ur vision... Visions same as urs r in buddhist stories... Once a king saw a dreams of hell when he was commiting bad karma & asked the buddha what it was & said what he saw wasn't a dream but an actual gimplse of what he was leading to

Now that's is interesting.

Raised as a Catholic, I remember as a child having an innate sense that a eternal place of punishment was contradictory in the eternal light and love of God, it just didn’t seem right

There are also references in the Bible to reincarnation / rebirth - though they are veiled due to the fact that the Bible is a holy book that’s not so much literal, but metaphorical

There is no permanent Hell, and there is no permanent Heaven either. Because each person's karma is different. And the most noble thing is not Heaven, but Nirvana. , Must learn the 4 Noble Truths and Khan 5 and follow the path of the Noble Eightfold Path. There are 9 levels of concentration. Any level of concentration can be used to enter Nirvana. Consciousness is what leads to Nirvana. and the word Zen that Japan practiced rigorously is the 4th level of concentration, that is, the 4th contemplation

In a way, yes. The human realm is recognizeable by traits and experiences particular to it. The same goes for all other realms, in which we may experience blips of those qualities found in the realms that we don't occupy in that particular moment.

Yes why we see life differently in our youth then our adulthood.... the awareness is liberation to your karma... the wheel is controlled by your actions... I know the hell part witch we get stuck in an endless loop of suffering..

Thank you, at 27:36 he begins talking about the heavenly realm

Don't cling to the sinner self image, reality is blameless.

You can make a change now, bless you, irregardless of what you've done everyone is redeemable in my eyes.

And it is strange also because I was in college 1.5 years earlier, and my professor said there was an employee who sat in the same place as me that found God (and I was an employee when my dad gave that to me).

Yes, it is.

May you and others benefit from this aspiration. Hogen