A definition for loving-kindness and samadhi
ericparoissien

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an attitude where you let everyone around you believe in the niceynessthat "has to be" found at the heart of each creature ... thusminimizing the risk of being rejected, ignored, misunderstood, takenfor a fool, a madman or a simpleton. Considering that there is no mystery, no beyond, no transcendence, nocore to experience or humankind, thus no hope for evolution (thereforeno dissatisfaction or disillusion) ...at Dante's inferno's gate:"Leave all hope behind you, you who enter here"is a message of freedom .. but inferno for the seeker of truth; surely when nothing i carry or believe is my heart, is taken seriously, each moment takes care of itself. What if Buddha was so enlightenend that he did not need to believe in heavens and afterworlds and tomorrow will be better because of today's effort and meritorious deeds.

Why do all these teachers have to prepare us for something glorious to come, or take us out of an undesirable state in which we are enmuddled. As soon as we had the need/fear, we rushed out to a specialist...

Do we rely on him to tell us to question the need/fear, and how to achieve that? thus entrapping us in his wisdom to tell us how much wedon't need anybody's wisdom to make it on our own. Please don't give us, any more samadhis, trips, thrills, higher states, orgasms, experiences ...WE ARE FINE... all there is to know about the world is contained in one pause. Hey teachers leave those kids alone!