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- Tue Jan 08, 2013 3:58 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
- Replies: 87
- Views: 47182
Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Thanks for your replies, Lowlydog and Johnny. I ask because I have met a kundalini practitioner who speaks of various stages of "enlightenment" corresponding to the opening of various chakras, with "full enlightenment" occurring when all chakras have been opened and the flow of e...
- Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:18 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
- Replies: 87
- Views: 47182
Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Are these the same or different? If there is some overlap between them, to what extent does this extend? I have heard that some Tibetan Vajrayana practices incorporate energy work (i.e. Tummo), but does this have the same goals as Kundalini Yoga? What about other, non Tibetan or non Vajrayana tradti...
- Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:55 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: "Zen is Going to Hell and It’s the Boomers’ Fault!"
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6887
Re: "Zen is Going to Hell and It’s the Boomers’ Fault!"
Somehow you have the misapprehension that Zen Buddhists are running the country and making the decisions you so rightfully abhor. And, no, I won't apologize for the policies of Clinton/Bush/Obama, though I will join you if you plan a protest.. It's not "Zen Boomers" who are running the co...
- Sun Jan 06, 2013 3:05 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: "Zen is Going to Hell and It’s the Boomers’ Fault!"
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6887
Re: "Zen is Going to Hell and It’s the Boomers’ Fault!"
Speaking as a "millennial" (born in the 1980s) I have to agree there is definitely a generation gap. It is a bit of a turn off for me to see a sangha composed almost entirely of older white people; and a lot of the "style" of these communities definitely seems like it comes from ...
- Tue Jan 01, 2013 7:01 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Termas and Cultural Paradigms
- Replies: 104
- Views: 20527
Re: Termas and Cultural Paradigms
I predict a "scripture only" orthodoxy movement for Theravada westerners and a logic driven Nalanda type Buddhism for Tibetan Buddhist westerners. E.g. instead of "this guru/lineage founder/sutra says this; therefore it is correct" it will be "this is correct because of a, ...
- Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:51 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Termas and Cultural Paradigms
- Replies: 104
- Views: 20527
Re: tibetan buddhist monasticism in the west
I said nothing about ethnicity. I said cultural paradigm. Ethnicity, cultural paradigm, whatever. In this case I think they amount to the same thing. Not to nitpick, but these are very distinct from each other and it is important that we recognize the difference. There are people of many different ...
- Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:10 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: I thought Buddhism wasn't about threatening people with Hell
- Replies: 209
- Views: 49984
Re: I thought Buddhism wasn't about threatening people with Hell
The OP is a little confusing, to me. First of all "Buddhism" is not a monolithic bloc. It differs greatly from tradition to tradition, country to country, institution to institution. Thus one's mileage may vary when it comes to what "Buddhism" is "about", based on these...
- Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:01 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Offering for a teacher
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1062
Re: Offering for a teacher
Hello Annaliese,
You are probably better off talking to somebody at the monastery about these issues, rather than looking online, since every institution does things a little differently and has different expectations.
You are probably better off talking to somebody at the monastery about these issues, rather than looking online, since every institution does things a little differently and has different expectations.
- Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:46 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: existence of objects/form
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10242
Re: existence of objects/form
Hi Johnny, You might find this helpful: For Nagarjuna and his followers, this point is connected deeply and directly with the emptiness of phenomena. That is, for instance, when a Madhyamika philosopher says of a table that it is empty, that assertion by itself is incomplete. It invites the question...
- Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:34 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Climate Change: We're Doomed
- Replies: 871
- Views: 174197
Re: Climate Change: We're Doomed
Okay - I'm back. "an increasingly degenerate age" : you have decided that these are (to use Christian terms) the End Times. This is not a rational decision (if it were, you would have more company) but your own individual summation of what you see around you. Oh, wow, really? I didn't kno...
- Sun Dec 09, 2012 9:09 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2679
Re: Hello
Thanks for the kind welcome everyone
- Sun Dec 09, 2012 9:00 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is "meditation"?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4866
Re: What is "meditation"?
This might be helpful: Anapanasati Sutta Note how mindfulness of the breath is linked up to the 'four frames of reference' (satipatthana) - which the Shakyamuni describes elsewhere as the direct path to nirvana. Basically anapanasati is supposed to be used to establish the Four Frames of Reference a...
- Sat Dec 08, 2012 1:51 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: KIVA - Microloans
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7323
Re: KIVA - Microloans
Is there a way to just give these people funds without making it a "loan"? I ask because it seems that larger and more predatory financial institutions are moving in to profit off microloans, with the result of people being trapped in debt. Altruism or Exploitation? Microloans: Mega Profit...
- Sat Dec 08, 2012 1:12 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Why are the candidates weeping during the ordination?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7018
Re: Why are the candidates weeping during the ordination?
In Chinese Buddhism the long ceremonies and build up to the finale complete with music, incense and ritual theatre can have a deep impact on people. Confucius himself believed in the transformative power of rites and music. This was transferred into Buddhism. Having attended a Chinese Buddhist cere...
- Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:48 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Accepting Attachments/Household Life
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13375
Re: Accepting Attachments/Household Life
ethics is nothing more than a manifestation of a dual mind what is good? what is evil? are they not concepts conjured up by a dual mind? in the eyes of a truly enlightened mind, nothing is truly good or evil... What a bunch of nihilism. It makes for a good fascist ideology, though. I guess it was a...
- Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:43 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Curious Chinese painting.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2337
Re: Curious Chinese painting.
He looks like an anime character...Huseng wrote:I imagine the artist read that Maudgalyāyana was fair skinned. Śāriputra also has really big eyes.
- Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:26 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: sharing Dharma
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2380
Re: sharing Dharma
I would say the foremost thing is to maintain strong bodhicitta. That helps us not act from a place of ego or pride when talking to people about the path. Its best to refer to books, authors, texts and teachers. If you can place a book in their hands without any attachment to getting it back (even ...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:48 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Climate Change: We're Doomed
- Replies: 871
- Views: 174197
Re: Climate Change: We're Doomed
Another brilliant bit of miserablism!!!! The fact that you consider Huseng's views to be "miserable" or "gloomy" does not make them incorrect. I haven't seen anything you've posted here that really challenges the facts as he's laid them out; all you've done is characterize them ...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:26 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Is Buddhism just as irrational as other beliefs?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15436
Re: Is Buddhism just as irrational as other beliefs?
Which then begs the question: What the criterion for the truth? How do we know if something is true? Is it an agreement between people? That it enhances love? That is stirs the emotions? That it pleases the mind? Great question. Shakyamuni Buddha's response has always struck me as the most reasonab...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:15 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Is Buddhism just as irrational as other beliefs?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15436
Re: Is Buddhism just as irrational as other beliefs?
It's enough to simply follow the precepts and live a good life; why believe in things that ignorant people from the past believed? I didn't know the point of Buddhism was to "live a good life"; I thought the point of Buddhism was liberation from suffering. The precepts are obviously part ...