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I have no idea about your trading system - however, the rest of the stuff you posted is pretty spot-on imo.....
I believe the first tenet of Buddhists is "Life is suffering" - not in a fatalistic way, but as a motivation to sublimate what would only be seen as bad into a learning experience.
There is, however, the story from India of an Indra who freed up the locked-up waters of the world by throwing a lightning bolt on a drought monster, and after the world was refreshed, thought - "What a great boy am I" and behaved that way.
A Blue-Boy god appears to enlighten him, and as the story goes...
"While the boy was talking, an army of ants parades across the floor. The boy laughs when he sees them, and Indra's hair stands on end, and he says to the boy, "Why do you laugh?" The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."
Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) And so the boy points to the ants and says, "Former Indras all. Through many lifetimes they rise from the lowest conditions to the highest illumination. And then they drop their thunderbolt on a monster, and they think, 'What a good boy am I.' And down they go again."
From Joseph Campbell's "The Power Of Myths"
http://www.wisdomportal.com/Enlightenment/IndraUniverses.html
very good, thank you.
Samsara aka the never ending cycle of pain, birth - life - sickness and death, is a fact, nothing will ever change that.
IMO, also not if you go the way of buddha, the golden middle way to get enlightment, cause you do not know what happens after death and if you will be reborn is not up to you, or maybe yes, but thats a thing we only can know, when we went into the light, after we left our body.
So what, my relation to religion and all that sense of existence question, is always to answer it with a strong mushrooms trip.
People who tripped hard a few times, know what i mean.
The universe will open up to you and all quesions will be answered, although the most of them you will forget after you have come down.
But once i had this trip and just as in the beginning when the first visual hallizunations started to form patterns, i had that, you could call it enlightment, it was a feeling, or better word is a knowledge, that whatever happens in my life, whatever i have to go through, after death, there will be happiness and no more pain and just love. And that gave me such strong power for my life, from this point and whenever i trip, i hope the get that experience again. But the trips are always different, sometimes it kicks me out of my body, what is pretty heave if you experience that the first time, but the second time, if you are not afraid, you can handle it, problem is that you control your soul moving with your thought, and if you be afraid, you are just one second again into your body and open your eyes.
But one of the most heavy experiences, beside all that hardcore beautiful coloured pattern that move in each other in the oriental style, is the process of dying, when yourself is dying and you reunite with the whole universe, until there is no you anymore, while time stops for a few hours. After that to be reborn and be thankful to still be alive and be normal again, is just the best of all this mushrooms - flesh of god.
Most of you, will think i am a druggy and sick in my head.
But i do this stuff since i am 15 years old and i learned a lot of it, also read a lot of shamans book and how they thread all this stuff.
Just wanted to say, i am not really sure that buddhas enlightment is the answer.
