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- Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:46 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: where to go to seek confirmation of attainment?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13466
Re: where to go to seek confirmation of attainment?
Be it attainment, revelation or realization of any spiritual idea/stage/state/etc. if it is real, one needs no conformation from outside. You will know it beyond rational and irrational doubts by that inherent luminosity of the mind. Outside authority might conform errors of views or practices, but ...
- Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:37 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism and Western Culture
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10377
Re: Buddhism and Western Culture
I think that it necessarily depends on the text. If it would be the pali canon then a development similar to the one that occurred during the last 2500 years would start again. But it would take much more time since people nowadays are not very interested in religious stuff. A text of a later phase...
- Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:01 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism and Western Culture
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10377
Re: Buddhism and Western Culture
From the discussion above it is clear that we need to differentiate between Buddhism as religion and Buddhism as a personal practice.
Thornbush, which of the two your original question was about?
Thornbush, which of the two your original question was about?
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:36 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism and Western Culture
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10377
Re: Buddhism and Western Culture
Dnet... " Ron, does not this imply that the ideas and practices of Buddhism as preserved in scriptures are not sufficient, for following the Noble Path?" There is no such implication..... The confusing of a personal path with a professional path is occuring. Thanks for the clarification. ...
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:15 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism and Western Culture
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10377
Re: Buddhism and Western Culture
If the west abandons lineage, enmass or at large, to my opinion western Buddhism is over as a Buddhist faith. Ron, does not this imply that the ideas and practices of Buddhism as preserved in scriptures are not sufficient, for following the Noble Path? Seems a bit overboard. Lineages tend to overes...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:43 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism and Western Culture
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10377
Re: Buddhism and Western Culture
One problem with the question is that "Western culture" is considered as something static, something frozen in time. And that is probably one of the biggest misconception about "Western culture". In fact, it is quite liquid. Given how many people in "Western culture" pr...
- Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:43 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Padmasambhava's Song on Natural Liberation
- Replies: 0
- Views: 909
Padmasambhava's Song on Natural Liberation
What English translation would you recommend?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
- Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:34 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello to all new avatars
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1871
Hello to all new avatars
of those whom I met before.
Dmitri
Dmitri