Dalai Lama - What surprises me most about humanity

[Cormac]

How much buddhahood does it take before you become a Buddha? Does that instant flash of incoherent illumination, dissolution of subject object categories then a lifelong descent into the mundane and the grave count? Or does it only count when loads of people think that makes you special?

Does the Buddha have cat nature?

My understanding is it's anyone who has achieved total illumination/nirvana. Doesn't matter if anyone else hears about it-- though if they don't no one would be calling you a buddha, would they?

And of course Buddha's truth is only true to Buddha, so I think we can then assume that since L.S.D. is a dissociative hallucinogen and that it seems to mimic the same kind of neurological agitation and serotonin rushes than people who can pull off transcendental meditation claim, that indeed Rum is a Buddha, yes?

You'll get a nice orange sheet in Debenham's for about 25 quid Rum.

[hadespussercats]

That's RamaRumya to you, bub.

[rasetsu]

For what it's worth, I've experienced Samadhi twice, and didn't find it enabled me to hold forth on its nature. Enlightenment doesn't necessarily entail being able to explain or understand being enlightened or becoming enlightened. I find the Buddha profoundly right about some things, and profoundly wrong about some things. I prefer to leaven spiritual masters' understandings with insights gleaned from modern cognitive science and philosophy and physics.

[mistermack]

Dalai Lama's full of shit.

Some people do that stuff. Not most.

Most people work to raise their kids. Not something Lamas would understand.
Not his fault though. He was raised on that shit, he didn't ask for it.