Buddha Sunday School with Buddha2525

What do YOU want out of life? What do you want to accomplish? What makes you unique? That's all that matters.Not what someone else wants and especially what any god wants. If some god is telling you what it wants you to do, that's not God but a succubus using you for their own good.

I don't suffer, that's just a state of mind we create which prevents us from accomplishing what we were meant to.

My mind is calm and still. When I need a particular thought it just comes, I don't force it.

Our emotions are also needed and come and go without forcing them.

Life is easy. You like most others make it out to be more complicated than it is.

I don't live in the now, but in the all. You need balance. Too much of any way of living leads to clinging. Even the want to not want to cling becomes the same problem.

Buddha2525 said:

Which names? Give me an example.

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Well from the link you provided me, there are words I don't really understand, like sutra, dharma, Tathagatas, devas and it would be useful for me to look them up somewhere that explains them a little. But then there are the proper names of people that I also don't know like Ananda and Sakyamuni, and I don't know how these people relate to Buddha. And speaking of Buddha, I did not realize there is more than one, is it more of a title? Sorry, so much of this is foreign to me and I struggle with names a bit. Maybe I need a Buddha for dummies book?

Bugeye said:

Well from the link you provided me, there are words I don't really understand, like sutra, dharma, Tathagatas, devas and it would be useful for me to look them up somewhere that explains them a little. But then there are the proper names of people that I also don't know like Ananda and Sakyamuni, and I don't know how these people relate to Buddha. And speaking of Buddha, I did not realize there is more than one, is it more of a title? Sorry, so much of this is foreign to me and I struggle with names a bit. Maybe I need a Buddha for dummies book?

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Sutra - thread, like this online thread, discourse. Where the English word suture to stich comes from.
Dharma - Buddha's teachings/ laws
Deva - demigod
Ananda - Buddha's cousin who learned his superior intelligence alone didn't lead to enlightenment
Shakyamuni- sage of the Shakya clan-- (Buddha)
Tathagata - arrive at (know) Brahma (the absolute)-- (Buddha)

https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/e-books/palidictionary.zip

Buddha2525 said:

Sutra - thread, like this online thread, discourse. Where the English word suture to stich comes from.
Dharma - Buddha's teachings/ laws
Deva - demigod
Ananda - Buddha's cousin who learned his superior intelligence alone didn't lead to enlightenment
Shakyamuni- sage of the Shakya clan-- (Buddha)
Tathagata - arrive at (know) Brahma (the absolute)-- (Buddha)

https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/e-books/palidictionary.zip

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Thanks for your patience! I appreciate it.

What I am saying shouldn't be too complicated, that's great that you don't suffer and that you find life to be easy, this is not the case for the majority. "You do not send a physician to those who are healthy"

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