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- Thu Mar 31, 2022 3:39 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
I can certainly decide who I will consider a follower of Buddhadharma, and feel completely free to share that opinion. You are free to disagree. However, you have now come out and admitted that you think Buddhadharma is just an ancient doctrine of unsophisticated people like the Buddha, unlike the ...
- Thu Mar 31, 2022 3:35 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
Those claiming the banner of rebirth/karma sound just like Christians lovingly telling others how they will be going to hell for not believing in Christ. It’s actually you who began the proselytizing in this thread by claiming that karma and rebirth weren’t useful concepts, that they weren’t needed...
- Thu Mar 31, 2022 3:29 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
Yes, he decided that Buddhadharma was pushing people away from Buddhism. No I claimed your rampant arrogance - claiming to possess the authority to decide who is, and who is not a buddhist - drives people away from the Dharma. I can certainly decide who I will consider a follower of Buddhadharma, a...
- Thu Mar 31, 2022 3:11 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
He decided what the essence of Buddhism is. People here have been pointing out that he is wrong. Yes, he decided that Buddhadharma was pushing people away from Buddhism. No I claimed your rampant arrogance - claiming to possess the authority to decide who is, and who is not a buddhist - drives peop...
- Thu Mar 31, 2022 3:06 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
Those claiming the banner of rebirth/karma sound just like Christians lovingly telling others how they will be going to hell for not believing in Christ. The Buddha defined liberation in terms of rebirth (stream entrants, seven rebirths in desire realm, once-returners, one, etc.). You don't accept ...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:55 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:43 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
This is not really about who is or is not a Buddhist, but what teachings actually say. No, it is not. Interesting discussion. Jesse and Clyde, while I think your concerns are not uncommon, I don't think they are particularly relevant in Buddhist circles for the simple reason that most people like y...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:21 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
These qualifications amount to moot, you can spend your entire life engaged in book learning, hopping around between teachers and never gain an iota of realization. So my point stands, neither of you are in a qualified position to judge whom is, or is not a Buddhist - Nor whom the Path is open to. ...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:09 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
It is precisely correct. There are a lot of spiritual tourists in the West, who get the tee shirt, and then post about their wonderful experience on Instagram. However, tourists can go native, but there are some things they need to absorb, like the actual cause of suffering: affliction and karma. S...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:55 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
It is precisely correct. There are a lot of spiritual tourists in the West, who get the tee shirt, and then post about their wonderful experience on Instagram. However, tourists can go native, but there are some things they need to absorb, like the actual cause of suffering: affliction and karma. S...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:50 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
Tourist, Not a Buddhist, The path is closed to us. It is precisely correct. There are a lot of spiritual tourists in the West, who get the tee shirt, and then post about their wonderful experience on Instagram. However, tourists can go native, but there are some things they need to absorb, like the...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:28 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:23 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
Interesting discussion. Jesse and Clyde, while I think your concerns are not uncommon, I don't think they are particularly relevant in Buddhist circles for the simple reason that most people like you will simply self-select out of Buddhist communities. Perhaps its too much woo for you. Without that...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:15 am
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
I have no doubt of the Dharma of anicca, anatta (& sunnatta), and dukkha, also dependent origination in its simplest form, “from the arising of this, that arises” and “when this ceases, that ceases”; and the benefit of meditation. That is enough for me. Great, no problem. Again the issue is try...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:53 am
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
We believe "if I can just this, if I can just that" - THEN I can be happy. Seeing the utter futility in this type of thinking, perceiving, and behavior is probably the most important realization to have. That realization is fully experiencing the fruit of the Bodhisattva path (Nirvana) - ...
- Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:54 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Life extension not far off (partially here now)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1627
Re: Life extension not far off (partially here now)
Within the next 50 years or so, research into life extension will very likely pay off ... Yes. At least 15 years ago people were saying that "some people now alive may never die". Here's a set of articles about it (if the links haven't died :tongue: ) - https://www.newscientist.com/articl...
- Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:06 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
Do you know where to look? The fact that you are an adult and no longer a three year old is in fact proof of karma and rebirth. The fact I am an adult is a product of basic biology. A child could be a Buddha, and an elderly person can still remain a sentient being, it has nothing to do with rebirth...
- Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:26 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
The fact that you are an adult and no longer a three year old is in fact proof of karma and rebirth. The fact I am an adult is a product of basic biology. A child could be a Buddha, and an elderly person can still remain a sentient being, it has nothing to do with rebirth. What do you think then, a...
- Tue Mar 29, 2022 7:49 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
how many of us have perceived the actual workings of rebirth, or karma? Yet practice just fine. Do you know where to look? The fact that you are an adult and no longer a three year old is in fact proof of karma and rebirth. The fact I am an adult is a product of basic biology. A child could be a Bu...
- Tue Mar 29, 2022 7:46 pm
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: The Future of American Buddhism
- Replies: 430
- Views: 30939
Re: The Future of American Buddhism
If suffering is momentary and ends on the breakup of the body, then Samsara is just kind of a bummer. That's exactly the sort of view that arises from self. Suffering is infinite, only because beings are infinite. There is no transmigration of a soul, there is no rebirth that happens in such a way ...