♦ Got PROBLEMS -- BIG DISCOMFORT -- May As Well START HERE - or Read Elsewhere -

♦ Got PROBLEMS ?

Snippets of commentary for

beginning Buddhist meditators

and a teacher with Big attitude.

Got PROBLEMS ? Live with it,

Be Compassionate, we Love ya’

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“There is no such thing

as a "Problem" without

somehow a ‘Gift’ for you

in its hands ---
Sometimes you have problems
because you need their Gifts.
It is through Gifts that you grow"

~ Richard Bach - “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”

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Buddhist  Therapy: 

It’s been done

very effectively 

for 2500 years

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♦ DEPRESSION and MISERY
"UNSATISFACTORINESS" 

Please Go See Someone ~

Go See Some Live Person.

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BIG DISCOMFORT 
Read  Slowly  Graze  Ponder  
CONTEMPLATE

with Self-Compassion using Calm

Mindfulness Meditation instruction

Sit quietly go inwardly be attentive

Read here or anywhere on this site

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"The Big Problem"
It's Way Familiar,Usually Ongoing

EMOTIONAL PAIN:

How Could We Develop Relief

and Experience True Clarity ?

--to our Better 'Understanding'
Please Go See Someone
Here There Somewhere 

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An UNHAPPY Diagnosis
SUFFERING

One Size Fits All

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DEPRESSION HIDES in a Delusion
In "My Very Special Situation Story” ~

in a Disappointment Game of Got'cha. 

Stop Getting 'Existence' So Mistaken   

Already, Taper It Off Now this buying

into your own agitated STORY Content

and ILLUSION of Unreal Permanency.

Mindfulness Meditation Can Calm you.  

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So I'm try'n to begin 

to “UNDERSTAND”

and Comprehend  

This Big Mistake -

This ‘Cultural’ factor

this Mis-informed

Mis-understanding 

-and Now 'Practice' 

a Simple Easy Way

to Get Myself Free.

We all need to

fully 'Get' this ! 

And we can still 

be Loving and Kind.

Enjoy This Moment

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♦ DISCOMFORT: Feeling Down

What Conditions May Be Going On
Emotionally Inside of  You ?

♦ DISCOMFORT: Thinking Skewed

What Confusion May Be Going On
In ”The Big Overwhelm” of Things for

Everyone “Born Into Distracting Times”

♦ An UNHAPPY Diagnosis of Bad Karma,

Chaos, Social and Cultural Upheaval 

Our Kids are Infected “A Millennial Virus”

Pandemic Inflamed Personal Chaos.
That's "A REAL Huge Big Problem" --Ouch !

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This is Serious Stuff to be Taken Seriously:

As Human Compassion’s Higher Wisdom with a 

Buddhist Concern for Endangered Kindness  

and Safety, Sanity and Survival of the Living

“Spirit” of Humanity's Wholesome Welfare --
There just has got to be a Kinder Better Path !

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So What Really May Be Going On Here

Well-- There’s a LOST Rescue Dog here…

We Do Complain A Lot. The Remedy --

Take Your LIFE Back-- 
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~ The American Poet Laureate Robert Bly suggests.
this quote below bears constant repeating, so we will

.

”THE REMEDY ~ 

BRING YOUR 

LIFE BACK

FROM THE ‘EXILE

OF YOUR SPIRIT --
and INTO AUTHENTIC

SACRED BALANCE AGAIN.”

THAT'S ABOUT IT 
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Please ZOOM In to 175 % +

  

Our Main

Obsession is 

Our SUFFERING 

Our inflamed 'Suffering'

of the vast never-ending
Unstable 'IMPERMANCE'  
and the 'Not-Self' of it ALL ! 
Other people’s places and things,
color an insecure 'impermanence'
which is, frankly, much too much for

most to bear -- but we do now have

the Dharma’s Insecurity Tool: Skillful

Insight Meditation that goes way deep

into the very Existential root-core of

Buddhist Insight psychology filled

with Supremely Positive Suffering --

-- Seriously.

Ate you too serious ? --or just

a poorly managed gravitas ?
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Buddha said
so many times --

"All Our Suffering in Life
is from our unconscious  
Mental-Attachments 

that Continually Mistake 
the 'Impermanent' 
for being ‘Permanent’."
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As you "UNDERSTAND" All This--

You Begin to Know with a Clarity,

a Doubtless Certainty of ‘Liberation’

-- that You Personally CAN Get Free !
We all need to fully 'Get' this !
We all need to 'understand'
that there is still 'some thing'
you need to comprehend --
at least carefully consider
thinking it through enough to
begin to clearly get the point -
to at least consider ‘to consider’
our totally subjective experience
of the raw working-concept
of ongoing 'impermanence'
-- or we all just might as well
Go Home ! It's called LOSS... 
There are currently millions of
types of Painful Loss worldwide
Everyone alive will suffer Loss.
Existence itself is Collateral Loss.
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" You are more attached to your
desire-thoughts'' themselves --
than you are attached to the
actual 'object' of desire itself."

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And Again --

We Continually Mistake 

the 'Impermanent'
for being ‘Permanent’

Every culture blew it

on this one -- Yep, 

even the Buddhists !

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“UNDERSTAND”

and Comprehend  

This Big Mistake

-- this Mis-informed

Deluded Moment of

Mis-understanding 

and Now 'Practice' 

Getting Free

We all need to

fully 'Get' this ! 

And we can still 

be Loving and Kind.

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( Edit ) " What Don't You Understand ? " -- 

This is all about understanding Understanding 'Better'. Buddhism calls this category "Right View / Right Understanding -- and the Resistances to ‘Getting It’ -- Hindrances that go along with it. Then what would I have ?  I’d have Nothing to K’Vetch about. I prefer the really difficult mental emotional wrangle tangle that pursuit of the real Truth offers us. Uncompromising. That’s a tough audience.-- but can be a genuine “COMPLETE” UNDERSTANDING using the 8-Fold Dharma Path as a grande resource tool: ( Booklist ) Briefly, in other better words, understanding better the actual working concept of the word 'Understanding' itself, and effectively having 'Better' - but not yet 'Best' - having good emotional Feelings, possibly as a result of better understanding / better communication. Having better body 'experiences', integrating better basic, positive thought-idea 'experiences' that are already "Bodhisattva" level of natural development afeta accompli --or almost there...

Small 'enlightenments' with the use of 'comprehension' / 'understanding' -- this could be understood better for your overall 'Good/Better' life-functioning and meditation, to one degree or another. 'Understanding' along with ignorance / not-knowing that there's a 'knowing' to be known -- and you not-knowing that you don’t know it. Almost NOT A CLUE ! Understanding is the key term that all Clarity swings on - so you gottta' have some teeny tiny 'understanding' of the operating principle of this whole arising and passing away 'experience' thing, somewhat first. Existence is presented 'Live' - a constantly, ever changing, emotional operatic dramatic flux, major feature -- or mostly just paralyzed -- here and gone, infatuation and heartbreak, gain and loss. Buddha talked a lot about "Loss" and "Impermanence" a lot. Really a lot. You really need to get this... then the basic discomfort of the emptiness of 'Empty' is better when there really is Nothing to stand on-- that's zen minimalism for ya'. Then there comes 'support' divinely in the form of Grace by the lessening of suffering and stress, a reduction because of the replacement approach to 'Letting Go' of semi-conscious primitive primal ideas of a vast, parenting, comforting, delusively solid stable 'Permanence' ( like a God ) - yet there is the Best of Understanding in our "Feeling Better" cache - and so to be Compassionately Kind and relatively Suffering Free. Self-healing and boundless benevolence to others -- spontaneously emerges.

Sure, It's ALL Relative, subjective and conditionally compromised from a Buddha's Absolute Enlightened point of view -- Life itself IS Relative. Existence itself is Relative. Feeling Better is relative for Better Livin' by the Living -- and "It" too is Relative. Death itself IS Relative -- 'cept there is no one around to verifiably, subjectively experience that relativity - tree falls in forest parable. The Mantra here at Laughing Buddha is "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" ---- strongly vocalized repeatedly every day or so, for just a few minutes, all strung together head to tail... in however the Ways that Spirits may apply ...Enjoy it Better while you've got it Good -- or Better. Buddhism suggests we all get into a better frame of mind about all this.  

~ Akasa Levi and Billy Bo Sat ( Caveat:

Don't ever take either of these mentors seriously ) 

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♦ SO, WHAT 

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Review

" You are more attached to your
desire-thoughts'' themselves --
than you are attached to the
actual 'object' of desire itself."
----------------------------------------

We Continually Mistake 
the 'Impermanent'
for being ‘Permanent’."
---------------------------------

Please,

UNDERSTAND  

This Big Mistake 

and Get Free of it.

We all need to

fully 'Get' this ! 

---------------------

It’s All About a

 "COMPLETE” 

UNDERSTANDING ~ 

YET,

We Do Live in an Agreed Upon, 

established ‘Relative Reality’. 

Did that mess things up or what ... ?

It's Still ALL So Relative, So Subjective and So Conditionally Compromised from a Buddha's Absolute Enlightened point of view -- Life itself IS Relative. Existence itself is Relative. Feeling Better is relative for Better Livin' by the Living -- and "It" too is Relative. Death itself IS Relative -- 'cept there is no one around to verifiably, subjectively share the experience that relativity - tree falls in forest parable. 

The Mantra here at Laughing Buddha is

"Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" -

"Let It Go" - "Set It Free”

-- "Set It Free”

True Happiness is still Relative,

True Joy is Circumstanceless !

-------------------------------------------------

Buddhist  Therapy: 

It’s been done

very effectively 

for 2500 years.

______________

♦

The 'Discomfort' you came in with...
a mindfulness meditation will clear,
cool and calm you down soon enough – 

you're also going to relax and open up 

to a fact: The fact is Here and Now --

The highly useful psychology aphorism 

"That it's OK that it's not OK" 

Well, that IS the 'What Is' of it – And,

you can’t really wait until the moment

is ideally right-- and so let's jump in -

and simply Meditate and Talk -  

It's really in the Deep Heart that we Heal -

It's not just words, it's a unique kind of

"wisdom conversation" we will be having. 

There's another thing -- HUMANITY: 

the precarious nature of the Human factor. 

Beyond the tenacious grip, often cruel grip,

clench of Denial, Excuses, Explanations,

Rationalizations, Justifications, 

and the quick to be so Critical --

is the presumptuous, insensitive 

"Judging-mind" -- well, you're 

just plain Hurting. And, of course, 

you've got some neglected healing. 

Together, we've gotta go in 'there' -

somewhat willingly in there' --

WITH a TOTAL STRANGER 

to do some Inner-Questing -- 

-- Together.

This is a TOGETHER thing
....and a STRANGER thing. 

And above all else -- 

a Safety and a Trust thing !
Going to see some 'Other'

for help is a very personal thing.

I respect that in you.

---------------------------------- 

Really Good "Therapy" 

is not found in even

the best of print material,

or online in electronic media.

It is a very 'Live' Interactive

totally private Relating-Process

between client and counselor or teacher.

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end …. sorta’

unused clips

Go Read Elsewhhere !

♦ We

Continually

Mistake 

the

'Impermanent' 
for being

‘Permanent’ 

DEPRESSION and Misery
"UNSATISFACTORINESS" 

Please Go See Someone

BIG DISCOMFORT 
Read  Slowly  Graze  Ponder  
 CONTEMPLATE

sit quietly inwardly meaningfully  

EMOTIONAL PAIN:

An UNHAPPY Diagnosis
SUFFERING

One Size Fits All

”The Big Overwhelm”

“Born Into Distracting Times”

♦ An UNHAPPY Diagnosis: 

Bad Karma, Chaos, Social

and Cultural Upheaval 

Suffering personal Chaos.
"A REAL Big Problem" --Ouch !

------------------------------------------------
There’s a LOST Rescue Dog:

The Remedy: Sunday Bar-B-Cue

Sorry PC People:

Being Snarky --  I’m Bad

Take Your LIFE Back-- 

”THE REMEDY ~ 

BRING YOUR 

LIFE BACK

FROM THE ‘EXILE

OF YOUR SPIRIT --
and INTO AUTHENTIC

SACRED BALANCE AGAIN.”

THAT'S ABOUT IT 
--------------------------

   

DEPRESSION HIDES in Delusion
In So Many NAMA RUPA FORMS in 

a Disappointment Game of Got'cha. 

Stop Getting 'Existance' So Wrong 

Already and STOP buying into  

the ILLUSION of Permanency. 

----------------------------------------- 

So try'n begin to 

“UNDERSTAND”

and Comprehend  

This Big Mistake -

this Mis-informed

Mis-understanding 

and Now 'Practice' 

Getting Yourself Free

We all need to

fully 'Get' this ! 

And we can still 

be Loving and Kind.

Enjoy This Moment

-------------------------------

We

Continually

Mistake 

the

'Impermanent' 
for being

‘Permanent’

( Edit ) " What Don't You Understand ? " -- This is all about understanding Understanding 'Better'. Buddhism calls this category "Right View / Right Understanding -- and the Resistances to ‘Getting It’ -- Hindrances that go along with it. Then what would I have ?  I’d have Nothing to K’Vetch about. I prefer the really difficult mental emotional wrangle tangle that pursuit of the real Truth offers us. Uncompromising. That’s a tough audience.-- but can be a genuine “COMPLETE” UNDERSTANDING using the 8-Fold Dharma Path as a grande resource tool: ( Booklist ) Briefly, in other better words, understanding better the actual working concept of the word 'Understanding' itself, and effectively having 'Better' - but not yet 'Best' - having good emotional Feelings, possibly as a result of better understanding / better communication. Having better body 'experiences', integrating better basic, positive thought-idea 'experiences' that are already "Bodhisattva" level of natural development afeta accompli --or almost there...

Small 'enlightenments' with the use of 'comprehension' / 'understanding' -- this could be understood better for your overall 'Good/Better' life-functioning and meditation, to one degree or another. 'Understanding' along with ignorance / not-knowing that there's a 'knowing' to be known -- and you not-knowing that you don’t know it. Almost NOT A CLUE ! Understanding is the key term that all Clarity swings on - so you gottta' have some teeny tiny 'understanding' of the operating principle of this whole arising and passing away 'experience' thing, somewhat first. Existence is presented 'Live' - a constantly, ever changing, emotional operatic dramatic flux, major feature -- or mostly just paralyzed -- here and gone, infatuation and heartbreak, gain and loss. Buddha talked a lot about "Loss" and "Impermanence" a lot. Really a lot. You really need to get this... then the basic discomfort of the emptiness of 'Empty' is better when there really is Nothing to stand on-- that's zen minimalism for ya'. Then there comes 'support' divinely in the form of Grace by the lessening of suffering and stress, a reduction because of the replacement approach to 'Letting Go' of semi-conscious primitive primal ideas of a vast, parenting, comforting, delusively solid stable 'Permanence' ( like a God ) - yet there is the Best of Understanding in our "Feeling Better" cache - and so to be Compassionately Kind and relatively Suffering Free. Self-healing and boundless benevolence to others -- spontaneously emerges.

Sure, It's ALL Relative, subjective and conditionally compromised from a Buddha's Absolute Enlightened point of view -- Life itself IS Relative. Existence itself is Relative. Feeling Better is relative for Better Livin' by the Living -- and "It" too is Relative. Death itself IS Relative -- 'cept there is no one around to verifiably, subjectively experience that relativity - tree falls in forest parable. The Mantra here at Laughing Buddha is "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" ---- strongly vocalized repeatedly every day or so, for just a few minutes, all strung together head to tail... in however the Ways that Spirits may apply ...Enjoy it Better while you've got it Good -- or Better. Buddhism suggests we all get into a better frame of mind about all this.  ~ Akasa Levi with Billy Bo Sat ( Caveat: Don't ever take either of these mentors seriously ) 

------------------ 

"COMPLETE 

UNDERSTANDING" ~ YET,

We Do Live in an Agreed Upon, 

established Relative Reality. 

Did that mess things up or what ... ?

It's Still ALL So Relative, So Subjective and So Conditionally Compromised from a Buddha's Absolute Enlightened point of view -- Life itself IS Relative. Existence itself is Relative. Feeling Better is relative for Better Livin' by the Living -- and "It" too is Relative. Death itself IS Relative -- 'cept there is no one around to verifiably, subjectively share the experience that relativity - tree falls in forest parable. The Mantra here at Laughing Buddha is "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "SET IT FREE" ---- True Happiness and Joy is Circumstanceless !

-----------------------------

Buddhist Therapy:
It’s been done
very effectively
for 2500 years 

_______________ 

♦ The 'Discomfort' you came in with...
a mindfulness meditation will clear,
cool and calm you down soon enough – 

you're also going to relax and open up 

to a fact: 

The highly useful old psychology aphorism 

"That it's OK that it's not OK" 

Well, that is the 'What Is' of it – and so 

let's jump in - and simply Meditate and Talk -  

It's really in the Deep Heart that we Heal -

It's not just words, it's a unique kind o

f "wisdom conversation" we will be having.

There's another thing -- HUMANITY: 

the precarious nature of the Human factor. 

Beyond the tenacious grip, often cruel

grip of Denial, Excuses, Explanations,

Rationalizations, Justifications, 

and the quick to be so Critical --

is the presumptuous, insensitive 

"Judging-mind" -- well, you're 

just plain Hurting. And, of course, 

you've got some neglected healing. 

Together, we've gotta go in 'there' -

somewhat willingly in there' --

WITH a TOTAL STRANGER 

to do some Inner-Questing -- 

-- Together.

This is a TOGETHER thing
....and a STRANGER thing. 

And above all else -- 

a Safety and a Trust thing !
Going to see some 'Other'

for help is a very personal thing.

I respect that in you. 

Really Good "Therapy" 

is not found in even

the best of print books,

or in the electronic media.

It is a very 'Live' Interactive

totally private Relating-Process

between client and counselor or teacher.

--------------------------------------------------------