Buddhism vs Law of Attraction

Buddhism is focused heavily on internal mastery (which is very good), and The Law of Attraction is based around the strategic use of intent to manifest desires. The Law of Attraction is at work right now, whether you believe it or not; every single thought in your head is “pulling” probable futures towards you as you read this.

It’s a matter of broken logic, really. There is no problem anymore than there is a problem with eating a tomato or a cucumber; nobody says you have to choose just one. Put them together into a salad and see what happens ; )

Law of A is running constantly, whether you deliberately use it or not. Buddhism is so full of religious dogma, I doubt that the actual buddha really advocated that extinguishing of desire.

Desire is life, it’s the connection that turns the duality into a whole.

Using the law of A is also a part of inner mastery. Ignoring things like these, and even saying these things are wrong, that’s not enlightened at all. That’s fear, nothing but fear.

Check out this thread http://www.highexistence.com/discussions/topic/possessions-and-desires/

to me it seems like one of those situations where you either have to drop one of these ideas, or be able to hold two contradictory terms at the same time.

I don’t know Alex. From what little I understand of Buddhism, it seems pretty specific in what it means by freeing one’s self from materialistic desires.

And mANIMAl, just because you don’t agree with the dogma of Buddhism doesn’t mean you have to paint a different picture of what it is. You say life is desire: to me, that is exactly why Buddhism seeks to free one from the cycle of reincarnation- because both life and desire are held to be ultimately meaningless.

^”We might know that quantum physics has revealed solid matter to be forms of energy and process, but we prefer not to consider the implications of the fact that, with such discoveries, materialism is transcending itself.”

Jackpot.

Also, I don’t know why more scientists don’t hypothesize that the big bang was just the ass-end of a black hole, dumping matter into a new space, where it has evolved into the universe we observe today. We know these things are the only phenomena capable of completely destroying the constant that is the speed of light, so this seems very, very logical to me.

I’m halfway in The Power of Now, and I think this book kind of talks about this too. Being present is a good way to feel good, you shouldn’t have your sights on the future thinking reaching your goals will make you happy.
Maybe read a few pages of the book to see if you like it. I’m gonna try to reread the beak after I’m finished to really soak in the information and apply it to real life.

@Joris. Download the audiobook & play it in your car. It really sinks in then.

@ajgg, I think the Buddhist precept that desirelessness is desirable (lol) has been misunderstood.

The purpose of life is to fulfil desires. It is impossible to live a physical life without desire. Even the desire to eat or pee or sleep will eventually rear itself, won’t it?

Therefore, I believe Buddhism is teaching that desirelessness is ultimate fulfilment – a state of nirvana where even the desire to be alive in physical form is no longer present.

Meanwhile, whilst we are in physical form, the law of attraction teaches that the attainment of all our desires is possible for us. Desires are there so that we may follow our personal dharma, (path), not so that they can be thwarted and we end up living frustrated and unfulfilled. As we grasp this teaching and begin to live it we are also progressing towards our personal nirvana because we come increasingly to the understanding that life’s only purpose is to experience desires and have fun with the challenge of fulfilling them.

Eventually we will reach a point – perhaps many lifetimes from now or maybe in this one – where a desire will be fulfilled at the same instant it is experienced, thus making desire itself irrelevant … and the Buddhist ideal will then have been achieved.

There is therefore no conflict between the two teachings.

Hope that makes sense!
Trevor.

http://wizardofwisdom.com