"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thought. With our thoughts, we make our world"
- Siddhartha Gautama -
Thank you for your thoughts...
2006-09-29
04:54:28
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Shinkirou Hasukage
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➔ Religion & Spirituality
Georgeoustxwoman: Yes, you are
2006-09-29
05:01:28 ·
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Carol L: Buddha lived 500 years before Christianity came into being...
2006-09-29
05:05:16 ·
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i certainly believe that
for many years i believed myself to be plain boring and dumb ( through years of being told by others )
life held very little for me as i could not see anything in a possitive light
the day that I decided i was not what others thought me to be ... was the day i began to really really enjoy life and learning
now i set myself no limits and the world around me is wonderful
i will learn and learn as much as i can ... and with every piece of knowledge i aquire ... the world around me is more spectacular
2006-09-29 05:02:22
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answered by Peace 7
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I believe it and I believe the Buddha meant it literally rather than figuratively. Does a tree falling in the forest make any sound if there is no one there to hear it? Does matter exist in its solid form when there is no one there to perceive it or is the material world as he states quite literally a construct of human thought?
2006-09-29 12:33:24
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answered by Anonymous
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I have seen abused and embittered people become more bitter and hateful if they don't forgive and learn to heal, get closure and move on.
I have seen hopeful and peaceful people become inspirational when they be quiet and free thier mind of negative or harmful thoughts and began to meditate rather on creative and possible realities of love, kindness, joy, and balance then pursue it, make plans and chose actions based on this faith and hope in the transcendant
the darkness or light inside us emmanates, but it's our choosing of which to focus that shapes us.
without a will, there is no way, if we desire it, often we (with our inherant self interest) pursue it if it is what we want to be or become....just like being exposed to radiation, we continue to take on the effects and nature of what we surround ourselves with starting with our mind and thoughts...
2006-09-29 12:02:08
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answered by Anonymous
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What the Buddha meant was that how we view the world is determined by our perceptions of it. Perceptions being belief systems, attitudes, view points, and our own individual understanding of life.
We are what we think because most of what we like or don't like about the world is somehow reflected within ourselves.
2006-09-29 12:03:54
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answered by Perfectly Said 3
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Im not sure. I have been studying the "power of words" through a christian stand point. And I do believe that we can be or feel what we think we are or feel. For instance...How come as soon as someone has a headache or a cold they feel the need to tell someone. As soon as we voice our problem it becomes known meaning that we accept what's happening to us. instead of accepting it we should rebuke it ....In itself we can create our own outcome through our actions because everything has a consequence.
2006-09-29 12:00:58
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answered by Lovely Duckling 1
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Yes, I do believe it's true.
And God came up with it long before this guy put his name to the concept. Proverbs 23:7 says, "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."
2006-09-29 12:02:07
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answered by Carol L 3
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So as a man think, so is he. The mind can conceive it, it can become reality. Arms, legs, feet, and many robots are showing us about the mind today. The mind is a terrible thing to waste.
2006-09-29 12:06:15
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answered by Anonymous
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We are what we think, insofar as physicality is concerned. The truth of us cannot be altered by our thought, because we did not create ourselves. But we do make up our "reality" as we know it. I use the analogy of the child with imaginary friends. The physical world he/she operates in, is "real" in those terms, and the child knows it. But the child also knows his/her imaginary friends are not "real". In our case, we forgot that this world, which is imaginary, is not the real world.
2006-09-29 20:59:40
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answered by Sky in the Grass 5
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We make our world through the quest for knowledge. We can choose to be unhappy or we can choose to be happy. Dwell on the bad or enjoy the good. Am I in the ballpark?
2006-09-29 11:59:51
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answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7
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Yes. That is why I am a proponent of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. If our actions are unhealthy to us, it is due to a faulty thought system. If we can change the unhealthy, defective way of thinking, our unhealthy actions will stop as a result.
2006-09-29 11:58:27
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answered by Allison L 6
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