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do people have pressure get pressured to be accepted?
i'm thinking. what does it matter to get people's approval. we want to look good or be seen positively. but what makes the person so important that we need their approval. the budha says eventually we'll get old. we'll lose our vitality and strength. not just me, but me you everybody.
what i think is that it's evolution. evolution made us have certain traits so that we may do what's right for evolution - which is to keep the species going. not on purpose (keep the species going) but just do things that allow for it. for instance, we may like to get a fancy car or a playstation. if you have a playstation - all of a sudden, the friends want to come over to your house to play it. if you have a car, people will want to hang out with you. that goes well for evolution because then you end up protected (by having friends) and end up having children (by having people interested in you).
look, all i'm saying is: despite all the hardships in life, i.e., getting chewed out by your boss, having parents that fight, not getting along with your brothers and sisters, things not going well, does that still mean we care about whether people approve of us, or is that on the back burner.
children care about toys and stuff. they have no sense of their parent's tough life.
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- j153eLv 72 weeks ago
Am unsure what "do people have pressure get pressure to be accepted?" clearly means.
You quote the Buddha; in the Pali Canon, He is recorded stating He teaches neti, neti (not this materialism, not this mortal mindedness), knowing that he is anchored in Atman. Like Jesus and other avatars of similar caliber, they know from whence they come, their ordained mission, and to whence they return.
The Buddha, like the apostle Paul, knows He ascends daily, and that God's promises are renewed daily. Buddha: "Each morning, we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."
The human body temple is of the earth, earthy. Each has a use-by date, an arc, like rising in the morning as a child of Light, and passing on in the evening from the screen of life, wiser and more properly humbled. The temple built without hands is our Light of God, our robe of Light, our seamless garment, our unconditioned Mindfulness, our freedom, our treasures in heaven, our causal body.
Related: "Quietly Comes the Buddha"
