ananda
Early Buddhist
No, I have not. That is the challenge for Christians to fulfill, since eternal life is one major end-goal. Increasing their life span as a result of practicing the Christian path would be major evidence that the Christian path could be effective & true.Hey hey ananda sorry my friend, i had a back log..thank you for your patience.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 5:13-14
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
1 John 5:13-14
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
For those who find me find life
and receive favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 8:35
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
1 Peter 5:10
The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
1 John 2:17
What say you my friend?
Also how do you know you have increased your life span?
Im curious. Are you aware of anyone who hasnincreased their life span?
A major end-goal of Buddhism is the cessation of suffering. I've observed in myself and others that the practice of the Buddhist path does result in great reductions in suffering.
Physical, mental, emotional, imagination, consciousness, subconsciousness, jhanic states, etc.What are stratas of reality? Could you give me an example?
I can suggest many alternatives.Excellant, then we know it was from the Christian God as you cannot supply an alternative. It was acheived using the Christian formula, at church (but doesnt always have to be), while i was being prayed for by 2 Spirit filled Christian women and while i was focusing my attention to God in deep prayer.
My end-goal is not to achieve a relationship with deity nor to become nothing, but the cessation of suffering.How? You can enage someone, dont pay a bill, randomly hug someone, seek out someone or just plan talk to them. Why? Interest, curiousity, attraction, anoyance, desperation, loneliness, pity, boredom, hunger, thirst, protection, jealousy. That was 10 seconds worth My friend, you can start your relationship with God at any time. What benefit is it for you to become nothing - dont say less suffering - give me something else?
No, I stated that we don't normally interact with bacteria; in Buddhism, devas don't normally interact with the human realm, as it is compared with a human being jumping into a cesspool of filth.So you cannot interact with a deva. See you just proved there was no alternative for my experiences.
The question about "who created the earth" is irrelevant to my end-goal of cessation of suffering. Anything I crave & cling to which is impermanent and not-self is suffering; its cessation is the cessation of that craving & clinging.Why is that question irrelevant? What is suffering and what is its cessation?
Because you need a personal, direct encounter with your deity, as you yourself claim you possess. No amount of evangelism, faith, or scripture will substitute for that direct encounter.Why does evangelism, faith and scripture become irrelevant?
It results from an admixture of skillful and unskillful causes.What kamma do i need to experience a human state?
I don't recall ever claiming this, so I don't understand your questions.But they are lesser beings like bacteria. How can we know them? Brahma is lesser than bacteria. You are greater than he, how could he create the world? A thing that may happen or be the case. Sounds like someone is not certain. So the earth was created by a lesser being called brahma. Why was it irrelevant before?
It's not bad. It's simply the result of unskillfulness. Unskillful kamma (actions & behavior) produces unskillful results, like a roach, which has lesser abilities to escape suffering, ignorance, and delusion.Is it true, If im bad kamma may dictates i could be a coakroach in my next life? How does one judge a cockroach as bad?
From a Buddhist perspective, the allusion refers to nibbana - the unbinding that cools the heat of suffering. The flame arises as a result of multiple causes (fuel, air, etc.), just as the being arises as a result of multiple causes (food, air, water, thought, etc.). Blowing out the flame causes the flame to cool as it ceases its clinging to its causes, just as the cessation of clinging and craving in a being causes the being to cool from its causes and sufferings.What does it mean 'to blow out the candle' or 'to blow away'?
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