PurpleTree

It's actually not "the" Buddha (well all is one anyway) But it's a novel named Siddhartha by Swiss/German author Hermann Hesse from 1922 About someone named Siddhartha, Buddha also has a small role in the novel though I've had some deep "glimpses" of that, not enough probably so it's not really my reality as of yet and just parrotting it wouldn't feel real

A quote from a nice book which made me think of this in the first place. "He came to the river and asked the old man to ferry him over, and when they got off the boat on the other side, he said to the old man: "You're very good to us monks and pilgrims, you have already ferried many of us across the river. Aren't you too, ferryman, a searcher for the right path?" Quoth Siddhartha, smiling from his old eyes: "Do you call yourself a searcher, oh venerable one, though you are already of an old in years and are wearing the robe of Gotama's monks?" "It's true, I'm old," spoke Govinda, "but I haven't stopped searching. Never I'll stop searching, this seems to be my destiny. You too, so it seems to me, have been searching. Would you like to tell me something, oh honourable one?" Quoth Siddhartha: "What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" "How come?" asked Govinda. "When someone is searching," said Siddhartha, "then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don't see, which are directly in front of your eyes." "I don't quite understand yet," asked Govinda, "what do you mean by this?" etc. "

Had a dream about not being able to go to a certain school (because of money etc.) and then it happened i wasn't blown away when it did happen because it was a real possibility but i had the worst feeling after waking up from that dream

Because i met a guy i know a few hours ago in the neighbourhood who told me that and some other stuff. He's basically known to be a little nuts sometimes though so i wasn't even surprised, still a nice guy. Costa Rica must be niice though

good luck pal

Is this enlightenment thing not working out for ya? getting frustrated? sorry to hear that pal maybe don't enter the topic if you don't want to waste our time with childish arguments, thanks buddy pal

I'm not enlightened, i'm just asking questions, you seem agitated calling people FOOLs in all caps etc.

if you always see yourself as seeker can you ever truly become a "finder"

you said the magic word please so i'm considering it.

Leo seems like a seeker from the videos i've seen thus far. (maybe he already became a "finder" though) He digests so much information (spiral dynamics etc.) and tries a lot of stuff, experiments on himself/consciousness etc. People like Tolle, Spira, Moji, Sadhguru seem not really interested in those things, they're also much older of course. Who knows what they've done when they were young. Is having a spiritual practice not seeking you asked? Depends maybe if you just enjoy sitting in stillness so much for the fuck of it then it's not necessarily for seeking purposes.

Ok in your case, can somebody who's awakened still be a seeker or is there no real need for seeking after waking up. So you're saying someone who's awakened can't really be a seeker because there's nothing to seek

alright , it confused me because you said it's such a selfish thing which is generally seen a something "bad" especially in a topic about world hunger

I made this topic because people like Tolle, Spira, Mooji, Buddha? etc. don't seem like seekers at all. They seem much less interested in seeking and learning and more in teaching what they found but i'm not sure

so making money is a bad thing and people should feel guilty for it?

do they also believe that trump is sent by "god" or whatever to clean up the mess and corruption?

I didn't think about any of that with the meditation group i visited. But i also wouldn't because these people seemed to be kind of set in their ways. Maybe if there was a question part, where people could have asked questions. I would have asked some deeper and "weird" questions

So you watched Leos videos and then you thought you should teach those guys some deeper thruths and they weren't happy about it? That's pretty funny you could have ended up like some modern Jesus

what's the difference? i'm not sure i understand your wording

Leo

how about attachment ?

That's what made me think of this topic @No Self

Yea i guess if someone's just Buddhist because his/her parent were Buddhist then there's even more just mechanical rambling of chants etc. without any search for truth.

It's not bs if you believe in it also it's a nice story with many layers which doesn't need to be taken literally for example some groups of people (luciferians?) think that the snake was actually on our side and showing us the light then there's another story that that there was another woman first before eve named lilith

It's interfering with his goals and work, giving haters ammunition

Yes but then if you let's say follow Buddhas path don't create Karma etc., and escape Samsara (incarnation) So then you're not re-born anymore which is their highest goal but isn't it more fun to be reborn than not? Because of the beauty etc. in this world. What actually happens in their teachings if you're not reborn, nothing or something? I don't know i haven't really looked into to it and it gets too theoretical and "religious" imo