Universe | Intimacy With Fear

Slipping Off The Road

So yesterday I slipped off my game, ended up watching porn for 2 hours. I was tempted to feel guilty and frustrated. Then I realized this is the same old pattern I’ve been repeating the past 6 years. Beating myself up after failing doesn’t work. It’s insane. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. When I give into my addiction, from now on, I’ll try to put it behind me as quickly as possible. Staying stuck in the past doesn’t help the addiction. IT MAKES IT WORSE. So the question iswhat’s the best action to take after I slip off the road to recovery and end up giving in? The answer is to just stay present, meditate and ask yourself why it happened. For me its because...

Posted by rad on Apr 9, 2012 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

Do Buddhists Believe in God?

Born and raised in a Buddhist family, my mother always told me how absurd it was that people believed in God. She always told me how many atrocities were committed in the name of God and Jesus Christ. However, she would always tell me that the purpose of the Buddhist practice was to become aligned with the “Rhythm” of the Universe. In the Gosho(the equivalent of the Holy Bible in my Buddhist sect). But when I started reading A Course in Miracles, I realized that God and the Universe are the same thing. Different word, different language but it pointing to the same thing. People are shocked when use the word God, because they believe that Buddhists don’t believe in God. All Buddhists believe in God, except we refer to it as the Universe. Others...