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Old 07-22-2010, 12:37 AM
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Default What role does selflessness play in Taoism?

How does Taoism teach selflessness? According to Taoism, how does one become less self centered?
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Old 07-23-2010, 12:37 AM
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Haduken!
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Old 07-24-2010, 12:37 AM
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they dint give instructions...you do it.

check out Buddhist ethics...or Christs gospels


Joyce Meyer...wrong thinking

TD Jake's, free your mind

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Old 07-29-2010, 12:37 AM
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By thinking in terms of what you can give not what you can get.Thats selflessness.Its the opposite of selfishness.
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Old 07-30-2010, 12:37 AM
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S - Satsang (Company of Self Realized people), Self Control, Self Contentment, Study Scriptures to inquire about Spirit and Surrender to the God
P - Pray, Purify, Peace, Pranayama and Pratyahara to thin the mind and realize the Supreme Purushottama
M - Meditate, Concentrate of the God Consciousness and Merge with the infinite Consciousness when the mind becomes no-mind

The state of Selfless, mindless, ego less, desire less state where the divine love is given unconditionally to all beings is Jivanmukta - liberated while in the Body.

Desire merges into the non-dual unmanliest formless God Consciousness = Desireless state
Mind merges into the non-dual unmanliest formless God Consciousness = No-Mind state
Ego (the I-Nessa, attachment) merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = Egoless State
Self merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = Selfless state
Conditioned love merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = Unconditioned divine love
Body merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = Bodiless stateS - Satsang (Company of Self Realized people), Self Control, Self Contentment, Study Scriptures to inquire about Spirit and Surrender to the God
P - Pray, Purify, Peace, Pranayama and Pratyahara to thin the mind and realize the Supreme Purushottama
M - Meditate, Concentrate of the God Consciousness and Merge with the infinite Consciousness when the mind becomes no-mind

The state of Selfless, mindless, egoless, desireless state where the divine love is given unconditionally to all beings is Jivanmukta

When the Jivanmukta transcends the bodily state by becoming bodiless, he attains to Videhamukta state.

Desire merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = Desireless state
Mind merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = No-Mind state
Ego (the I-ness, attachment) merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = Egoless State
Self merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = Selfless state
Conditioned love merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = Unconditioned divine love
Body merges into the non-dual unmanifest formless God Consciousness = Bodiless state
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