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Hi! I'm relatively new to Buddhism and most of my education has been from Theravadan teachers. What is Dharmakaya, and why would someone show it off?

I've been absent from this account for a long time so I apologise if this question has gone unanswered for a few weeks/months/ years.

Dharmakaya cannot be encapsulated in words because words, by their nature, are limiting and therefor exclusionary. The best clumsy-lay-person explanation I can manage is that it is the featureless-fabric that underlines all that takes form. The most base reality from which everything with form or differentiation springs. It's not an empty field dereft of anything, more it is a field of everything and every possibility.

Take care not to mentally create some barrier between the Dharmakaya and Samsara, fundamentally there is no difference.

Why would someone show it off? Because they haven't personally observed it themselves; if they had, it would be like gloating to someone that the sky is blue when the other person could see it clearly for themselves.

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Any practice that helps you, is by its nature a good practice.

It doesn't matter if it originates from a different school of the Dharma or if it is something you have come up with yourself, because the Dharma does not have a boundary.

If it is done in the spirit of seeking truth, and alleviation of suffering then it is a good practice.

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Dharmakaya is so basic, fundamental and flavourless that any need to show it off or announce it is a clear signal of not really knowing it

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You Must Have Seen One Of The Spirits Of The Forest, And That Means You’re A Very Lucky Girl. You Can Only See The Spirits If They Want You To. My Neighbor Totoro となりのトトロ, 1988

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There is no end to desire, it just goes on and on and on. Is there any way to completely gratify a desire? If we satiate ourselves — if, for example we eat so much that we stuff ourselves full of food — then suddenly we have no more desire for food, we have an aversion to it. But before long the desire is there again and so we eat more, and then we do not want any more . . . And we keep going on like that — gratifying desire without understanding it. ​

Sometimes meditators think they should not have desires or should not have greed or lust, or they think they should not like beautiful things, or should not be this way or that way. But these are more concepts. Thinking we should not be, we should not have, we should not be the way we are — the moods, the faults, or whatever — this is wrong view. Things are just as they are.

-Ajahn Sumedho

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"This work defies the dreary but prevalent notion that the serious is the important, that the playful is the inconsequential, and above all that we are under some obligation to draw conclusions about ourselves and our world and then stick to them."

- Chuang Zhu

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Spiritual life is not about becoming someone special but discovering a greatness of heart within us and every being. It is an invitation to inwardly drop our opinions, our views, our ideas, our thoughts, our whole sense of time and ourselves, and come to rest in no fixed position.

- Jack Kornfield

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Tension is one of the most common blockages to practice and mindfulness that we encounter. Whether it appears as anxiety, frustration, anger, expectation or sadness, most of us carry around a lot of tension. Perhaps we find moments of peace and relaxation (and therefore concentration and open mindedness) when we meditate - for some of us maybe not even then! When the body and mind are tense, it is much harder to practice in all areas - patience, mindfulness, kindness - all of the practices and perfections become harder when we are not relaxed.

Master Guo Gu recommends progressive bodily relaxation, as well as grounding oneself in the body. If we are exceedingly anxious, we can use breath counting or meditate on sound as a way to bring down the heart rate and refocus the mind in the here and now.

When the body and mind are relaxed, they can focus, open and also let go of arisings. The mind can become like a gentle clear brook, rather than a raging river which sweeps up everything in its path.

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You know what? It’s really like that sometimes.

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Beautiful mornings in Switzerland | ( by Marvin Walter )

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Melakwa - Pratt Traverse, September 2021

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Since the original nature of mind is spaciousness without obstruction, all things reflected there liberate themselves moment to moment regardless of their characteristics. However, it is due to our clinging and attachment that various things become stuck and recurrent.

If we can remain detached and allow things to come and go freely within the spaciousness of mind, then all things will liberate themselves. Whether hurtful or pleasant, quick or long lasting, mental or physical: all will liberate themselves and cause us no hindrance whatsoever as long as we can remain in contented detachment. All of our karmic patterns will be like shadows on a blank wall - unable to disturb us or hinder our clear seeing.

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Alex Brisbey

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Because the nature of all things is that of emptiness and impermanence, life will never be perfect.

You may have fleeting moments where all things seem to come together just the way you want them to, but this moment will also pass.

This being so, we should seek inwardly to find lasting contentment and peace. We already hold within our hands that greatest treasure of all, if only we would look to see it. Incomperable to any other pleasure or treasure we may find anywhere on Earth or in the far galaxies, our own Unborn Mind stands above all else as the greatest source of unending joy.

Being blessed with this rare human existence, we should seek to realise our true Unborn nature like a desert wanderer looking for water; rather than be turned around and about endlessly by transitory attachments and illusory pleasures that offer us no lasting comfort.

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