ASD and non-sectarian Buddhism

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Hello Makegod2020,

You may or may not claim anything. If you do not think Buddhism or anything else is right or it is wrong that is absolutely your personal right and I do not think this should be a basis for anyone to think negative.

Here I think principles before politics is important.

Warmth of heart- Buddhism does not have a monopoly, nor any other tradition.

If we look at Mother Theresa of Calcutta, we see a humble Catholic Nun who when asked about her beliefs she responded that-
"God is love". That's amazing........

If we read Mahatma Gandhi we also come to the message of Love and inter-connectedness.

If we read Albert Einstein again we are also introduced to Love and inter-connectedness.

The world really does not need more fighter's, it's needs more people resonate with a positive human heart.
Isn't there enough trouble already? why would we possibly need to add to it?

Whatever path we take it will lead us to both love and acceptance if it is a positive path of humanistic development.

We all respond well to kindness, it makes most people feel positive, good and accepted.

Share the light.

Grant South.

The same Albert Einstein successfully convinced the Roosevelt Administration to make an atom Bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Of course Einstein knew that making thermonuclear weapons was the lesser evil. He was not stupid

ruveyn

In the Buddha's original teachings we find the Buddha taught the luminous purity of minds nature [Pali: Padhassara citta], Further in the later historical developments of Buddhist teaching methods, or traditions, this 'luminous mind', was also described as Bodhicitta [Lit: 'Awakened Mind' and also 'altruistic spirit of awakening'] and further as Tathagatagarbha ['Enlightened-Seed or Essence'] in various Mahayana lineages. Here we see that beyond the confines and limitations of sectarianism, the various schools of Buddhism are all in essence referring to the very same quality of luminosity within.

"Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is defiled by incoming defilements" [Anguttara Nikaya [A.I. 8-10].

The minds natural luminosity or radiance can be seen through meditative experience. Here we practice the clarity of mindfulness and the special insight of pure luminous awareness.

This pure luminous awareness is both reflective ['The mind which knows'] and reflexive [Apperceptive Awareness: the mind which innately knows its own nature']. Thus it is caring/loving as it naturally responds to phenomena and it is compassionate as it works for our benefit and the benefit of others.

It is only our present thoughts and emotional habitual patterns which obscures its true light.

Grant.

Buddhism itself accepts that the continua of our minds are infact separate and alone, atleast until full enlightenment, in which it's said that all fixed concepts, including "alone" and "separate", become (somehow!) irrelevant. Moreover, the Buddhist Path has been presented as the 'Lonely Journey'. {C.f. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche}

What is 'same' about us is that we all share a fundamental capacity to 'experience' our lives; this 'container' function comes in the form of our intermittent conscious awareness - The contents of that awareness can and will stretch beyond anything that's conceivable to any ordinary mind (the variability of such minds being -needless to say- unimaginably vast), so only a narrow range of mind's infinite capacity can be witnessed within one lifetime. Therefore, a severely autistic person (for example) may share little meaningful common experience with an 'NT', but the awareness that gave rise to both sets of experience is identical, since it lacks any particular characteristics that could differentiate the two instances of itself.



Most of us who are autistic likely feel so and know so.