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 Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:12 pm
So, what would be the hardest part of the eightfold path for you guys? I guess the hardest for me would have to be Right Speech. It's really hard for me not to say something mean. Another one would be Right thought. Sometimes, my mind think really bad things. lol
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:59 pm
I think it is to keep a Right Mind. Not that I have evil or dark thoughts, it's just that I am something of a day dreamer or a dreamer in general, so my mind always wonders to the "what if"s and "could be"s and "if only"s. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:06 pm
Right speech. VERY much so. And occasionally right action. xD
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:31 pm
Struggling with depression makes Right Effort the most difficult part of the Eightfold Path for me. When it gets bad, I have no energy to put forth any kind of effort in action, speech or thought. I tend to give up practice, to give up studying and to ignore what I've already learned to be true and just to hope for swift death or oblivion.
Though it's been a while since I've had a bad spell of depression (the last was in December).
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:50 am
Right Efford. I am the most lazy person you can think of... Why do I hang out here rolleyes I should go practising....
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:34 am
Kigeko I think it is to keep a Right Mind. Not that I have evil or dark thoughts, it's just that I am something of a day dreamer or a dreamer in general, so my mind always wonders to the "what if"s and "could be"s and "if only"s. sweatdrop
Oh god, me too!
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:32 pm
Right Effort. I'm an unnaturally good procrastinator, and it makes doing things that much more difficult for me. I can come up with dozens of reasons why I shouldn't, off the cuff, study something or sit in meditation for awhile. So difficult! sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:11 pm
卍 Right Mind, probably. I daydream all the time and sometimes think things that are really mean (though I wouldn't say/act on those things and usually scold myself for thinking them xP).
But yeah. And sometimes that Effort bit really gets me. Sometimes I'm like a Super Buddhist and sometimes I'm just... "Well, maybe I'll do it tomorrow or next year or something".
xP 卍
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:40 pm
i would say what i am having the hardest time with is right concentration. oh the life of a college student.
but i would say when it all comes down to it... they are all the hardest.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:55 pm
lakshanas i would say what i am having the hardest time with is right concentration. oh the life of a college student. but i would say when it all comes down to it... they are all the hardest. I would have to agree with that. It's been so hard getting my college stuff together lately as well.... crying and my transfer stuff too....
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:06 pm
I think having the right mindfulness is a bit hard for me, i am no where near the state of even having the 'correct' mindset, let alone even being able to go near right consciousness sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:36 pm
I am not Buddhist, but applying the eightfold path to my own lifestyle and set of spiritual standards, I'd say right concentration. I often have a hard time focusing, be it on a project, chores, reading a book, (writing a post on Gaia,) or meditation. There's times when I can focus better than others, but it seems like it takes alot more mental focus than other people need to use.
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 3:55 pm
Right Speech and Right Mind.
I have ADHD, both of these are hard for me to rein in and control.
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 8:35 pm
For me it's the right mind and right speech I'm working on right now, as these seem to be the hardest to obtain but most useful in practice. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:16 am
For me, it's Right Effort, though in the opposite way. I don't have a lot of control over my wanting to do things...I can be obsessively (and obnoxiously) ambitious at times. I kinda overshot the "middle way" of the path.
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