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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: North America (USA & Canada)
- Topic: 🌻BUDDHISM CLASS FOR CHILDREN(Age 6-12) BY VEN. THICH TAM TIEN 🌻
- Replies: 1
- Views: 183
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Faking it
- Replies: 37
- Views: 789
Re: Faking it
First a specific comment - I don't know if you can judge based on those kinds of framing phrases. They may be kind of formalities - "Thank you for asking." etc. But they may also be conveying their true base feelings, deliberately trying to show appreciation. Its not my style, and I wouldn...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Mahayana texts for beginners
- Replies: 5
- Views: 586
Re: Mahayana texts for beginners
I like to recommend the Vimalakirti Sutra. Its relatively short, entertaining, showcasing a sense of humor, and hits some of the more profound teachings of Mahayana. Also, the main character is a layman, kind of the Mahayana version of Anathapindika. Thanks. I just downloaded this: https://84000.co...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Mahayana texts for beginners
- Replies: 5
- Views: 586
Re: Mahayana texts for beginners
I like to recommend the Vimalakirti Sutra. Its relatively short, entertaining, showcasing a sense of humor, and hits some of the more profound teachings of Mahayana. Also, the main character is a layman, kind of the Mahayana version of Anathapindika.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 809
Re: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?
something is always made up of opposing factors or qualities,thus is non-essential,space cannot really be a entity or thing or it would be essential,which would mean essentiality and emptiness would both be coherent,which is absurd because emptiness is clearly the nature of things. Nirvana is also ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Tendai
- Topic: Transmission of the Lineage within the Tiantai/Tendai School
- Replies: 3
- Views: 348
Re: Transmission of the Lineage within the Tiantai/Tendai School
Yes, I think I'd be happy to put together something similar for the Mikkyo lineages. It would probably be a little longer, though that isn't too much of an issue. Off the top of my head we'd be looking at something like: part one China, part two Saicho, part three Ennin/Enchin, Part four Medieval L...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Tendai
- Topic: Transmission of the Lineage within the Tiantai/Tendai School
- Replies: 3
- Views: 348
Re: Transmission of the Lineage within the Tiantai/Tendai School
Thank you.
Any chance you'd put one together for the mikkyo lineages, down to the present? Would be very interested in the Mikkyo lineages that presently exist.
Any chance you'd put one together for the mikkyo lineages, down to the present? Would be very interested in the Mikkyo lineages that presently exist.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 809
Re: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?
There are some unconditioned dharmas, such as space. something is always made up of opposing factors or qualities,thus is non-essential,space cannot really be a entity or thing or it would be essential,which would mean essentiality and emptiness would both be coherent,which is absurd because emptin...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:36 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What advice would you give yourself 10-20 years ago?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 728
Re: What advice would you give yourself 10-20 years ago?
Stop worrying about ideas. Go practice better.
But I'm stubborn and I would have smiled at myself, nodded, and gone on doing what I was going to do anyway because I have to learn things for myself.
But I'm stubborn and I would have smiled at myself, nodded, and gone on doing what I was going to do anyway because I have to learn things for myself.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Counting breaths while meditation
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2275
Re: Counting breaths while meditation
Six Dharma Gates to the Sublime
https://www.kalavinka.org/kp_book_pages ... k_page.htm
Excellent little manual on how to meditate, starting with breath counting.
https://www.kalavinka.org/kp_book_pages ... k_page.htm
Excellent little manual on how to meditate, starting with breath counting.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1487
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2003
Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
I like to be a Mahayana chauvinist and not get called out for it.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1487
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
The conversation has certainly moved on, so I don't think I want to rehash any of this. But I agree that there isn't a "renaissance." I think what I meant is that you can see better attendance at events held by temples or Buddhist organisations when people go a bit outside of the same old...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1487
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
:alien: At Dai Bosatsu Zendo during sesshin and guest student residence, comprehensive introduction was presented to me personally by Eido Roshi. Friend, unless that was a years long residence, I think you've kind of made his point. The foundations of Buddhism are not readily transmitted in a "...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 3:07 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism among Asian Americans-Pew Research Center
- Replies: 1
- Views: 174
Re: Buddhism among Asian Americans-Pew Research Center
Very interesting. Thank you. The breakdown by national origin is much more meaningful. I mean, unless they are ethnically Chinese, I would not expect any Filipinos to be connected to Buddhism by heritage. Higher affiliation with Buddhism seems to coincide with the vitality of Buddhism in the home co...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:55 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1487
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
:alien: No, that's right, and it's maybe my biggest criticism of Zen in the West. I think we do a terrible job of introducing new practitioners to the foundations of Buddhist practice. In a lot of places, you get a ten-minute Zazen lesson and a book list, and away we go. And IME when people are int...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:30 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1487
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Thanks, interesting insights on Japanese culture, I’ve actually had a similar thought at times about the general emphasis on altruism, what’s perceived as “politeness”, etc. According to the earliest Chinese accounts of the Japanese, they were always communitarian, but I am sure that this was enhan...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1487
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
This is purely personal opinion, but my take is that you can find implicit or embryonic versions of most big Mahayana concepts in Pali literature, but that's looking at Pali stuff through Mahayana eyes I guess. IME looking at original Pali sources is not common in Tibetan schools either, but the in...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1487
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
I don't know if there is an equivalent pedagogical scheme in East Asian Mahayana (I've always sort of assumed there was), but in Tibetan traditions everyone starts with the sravakayana, albeit in a fairly abbreviated form. Sravakayana/Hinayana fits "within" the larger Mahayana scheme and ...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1487
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
I think as Mahayanists, we sometimes have an allergy to going back to the basics and talking about Buddhism from the śrāvakayāna perspective (including a kind of narrative of the Buddha from a "historical" POV that could be built upon later), but actually, that's needed first for people t...