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- Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:59 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why do Buddhas never joke?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3548
- Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:52 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Scary Liberal Views and Policy Positions?
- Replies: 126
- Views: 17951
Re: Scary Liberal Views and Policy Positions?
Here's my bleeding-heart-liberal take on this issue, as it relates to the USA (I'm not familiar enough with other cultures to make any assertions about them): - IMO, any religious dogma which includes damnation or any other synonymous dehumanization of people based on: sexual or gender orientation, ...
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:14 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: What type of empathy leads to action?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3579
Re: What type of empathy leads to action?
empathy (n.) 1908, modeled on German Einfühlung (from ein "in" + Fühlung "feeling"), which was coined 1858 by German philosopher Rudolf Lotze (1817-1881) as a translation of Greek empatheia "passion, state of emotion," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en...
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:31 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: What type of empathy leads to action?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3579
Re: What type of empathy leads to action?
empathy (n.) 1908, modeled on German Einfühlung (from ein "in" + Fühlung "feeling"), which was coined 1858 by German philosopher Rudolf Lotze (1817-1881) as a translation of Greek empatheia "passion, state of emotion," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en...
- Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:12 pm
- Forum: Dharma Stories
- Topic: Thread with no words
- Replies: 162
- Views: 145436
- Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:43 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: What type of empathy leads to action?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3579
- Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:02 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: What type of empathy leads to action?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3579
- Tue Jun 26, 2018 4:55 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: What type of empathy leads to action?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3579
What type of empathy leads to action?
So... I've been thinking a lot about empathy lately. I've been trying to figure out why I know people that are simultaneously emotionally empathetic and completely devoid of motivation to take action to help. Serendipity! I listened to an episode of the podcast Radiolab entitled "How to Be a He...
- Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:04 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: TRUCK FUMP
- Replies: 165
- Views: 27667
Re: TRUCK FUMP
There are over 7000 refugees just on the island where I live (the island had a total population of 86,000). Hungary (total population of 9.9 million), with it's current ultra-right wing anti-migrant hysteria, only took in 4,691 in 2016 (at the peak of the refugee/migration wave). I was told by a Sl...
- Mon Jun 25, 2018 8:27 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Big messages to deplorables ???
- Replies: 139
- Views: 22464
Re: Big messages to deplorables ???
You take seriously the concerns of the Trump base that led them to vote for him in the first place, which are primarily economic. You stop calling them morons, stupid, deplorables, and racists, which alienates them further and keeps reconciliation at bay. If you use these insults around dharma cent...
- Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:22 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Big messages to deplorables ???
- Replies: 139
- Views: 22464
Re: Big messages to deplorables ???
Just wait for round two when he blames the coming global depression he has "engineered" on the liberal enemies within and Europe. We are truly at a place where civil war is the least bad option. Oh really? The least bad option? If that's true, are you going to be the first one who signs u...
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 6:55 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1932
Re: Greetings!
I've been to a local zendo a few times and I'm trying to learn more. That's good! :smile: Kevin... I haven't wrapped my head around the ritual of it, and certainly felt odd chanting things that I didn't understand. But I did love the meditation. The ordained person was friendly enough, but he wasn'...
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:16 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1932
Re: Greetings!
Hi folks! I'm very curious about Mahayana, specifically Zen at the moment. I've been to a local zendo a few times and I'm trying to learn more. Also, my metta practice has been aided by learning about other people and what's important to them, so I'll be lurking around here quite a bit, I imagine. ...
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:55 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1932
Greetings!
Hi folks! I'm very curious about Mahayana, specifically Zen at the moment. I've been to a local zendo a few times and I'm trying to learn more. Also, my metta practice has been aided by learning about other people and what's important to them, so I'll be lurking around here quite a bit, I imagine. I...
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:57 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Dharma Wheel (Engaged)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 27742
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:10 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Dharma Wheel (Engaged)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 27742
Re: Dharma Wheel (Engaged)
Hello everyone! I'm pretty active on DWE and I've registered here at DWM in an effort to explore the Mahayana tradition... which I only have a very basic understanding of. My practice is only a few months old, so really I only have a basic understanding of the whole shebang. Mostly modern Insight mo...