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- Wed Nov 16, 2016 5:03 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: Leonard Cohen: 1934-2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2867
Re: Leonard Cohen: 1934-2016
So this is the level.
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:13 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: Leonard Cohen: 1934-2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2867
Re: Leonard Cohen: 1934-2016
But why not pose this fair question in another new thread about that topic? I understood the sense of this topic here to be an hommage and rememberance, since he just died some days ago. I think, it is not difficult to have such a discussion elsewhere and keep peace and respect in this one? thank y...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:15 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: Leonard Cohen: 1934-2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2867
Re: Leonard Cohen: 1934-2016
His teahers behaviour has had treads about already. I dont think its worth a whole new tread. Someone just asked (not me) if Leonard new about his misdeeds. Thats a fair question.Ayu wrote:frank123 wrote:This place is strict.Ayu wrote:[... Feel free to start a topic in the zen subforum.]
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 10:47 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: Leonard Cohen: 1934-2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2867
Re: Leonard Cohen: 1934-2016
This place is strict.
- Wed Oct 26, 2016 10:00 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: If Vajrayana is superior to Hinayana, how come no stories of Dipa Ma-like siddhis?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 11232
Re: If Vajrayana is superior to Hinayana, how come no stories of Dipa Ma-like siddhis?
Yes, I understood. I'm just saying that it's an interesting siddhi. It could resolve all sorts of questions, e.g. what language(s) did the Buddha teach in? I'm not sure if that would work. There've been accounts of other masters who can remember past lives when they were monastics during Sakyamuni'...
- Wed Oct 26, 2016 3:28 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: How do buddhas contact people?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7211
Re: How do buddhas contact people?
Buddha's don't contact you. Your own mind is the Buddha.Luke wrote:If we assume for a moment that Buddhas like Amitabha, Akshobya, etc. exist in different parallel universes, what is the mechanism through we which they can contact us and we can contact them?
It's clearly some faster-than-light mechanism...
- Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:30 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Enlightenment success rate
- Replies: 248
- Views: 21895
Re: Enlightenment success rate
Dzogchen, 100%. Just after empowerment? before or later? Is not Rainbow body the stage of full enlightement? Forgive my ignorance... No problem. There are 21 capacities of Dzogchen practitioners divided into best, medium and average. The best achieve buddhahood in this life. The next 19 achieve bud...
- Tue Jun 14, 2016 2:49 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3577
Re: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
If the way seems perilous, it is. You're right to consider not only how easy it is to fall out of practice, but the time involved. Ten years from now is unfathomable, let alone several lifetimes. So that is why some practitioners aspire for rebirth in realms like Amitabha's Pure Land, which are con...
- Tue Jun 14, 2016 2:48 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3577
Re: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
Hey, how dare you mr smcj accuse me of having a down beat attitude, how dare you dear sirsmcj wrote:That's no attitude to have. Who is to say you haven't already spent the last 2.99999... aeons practicing Mahayana? You wouldn't want to waste all that work now, would ya?

- Tue Jun 14, 2016 2:46 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3577
Re: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
Comical post dude!Sherab Dorje wrote:Yeah, coz all the Vajrayana practitioners I know are at the absolute tipping point that, with the slightest hint of a Dharma breeze (a Buddha passing gas, for example), they will be pushed into Buddhahood. Any minute now!BuddhaFollower wrote:Hence Vajrayana
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:27 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3577
- Sun Jun 12, 2016 11:11 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3577
Re: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
I have heard it said again and again that it takes three incalculable eons in standard Mahayana to reach Budhahood.If this is the case what are the chances in all practicality of one coming into contact with and practicing the dharma lifetime and lifetime after lifetime for three incalculable eons....
- Sun Jun 12, 2016 8:17 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3577
Buddhahood in three incalculable eons an improbable venture.
I have heard it said again and again that it takes three incalculable eons in standard Mahayana to reach Budhahood.If this is the case what are the chances in all practicality of one coming into contact with and practicing the dharma lifetime and lifetime after lifetime for three incalculable eons.I...
- Mon May 16, 2016 3:03 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Why is it okay for Mahayana Buddhists to be actors?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1993
Re: Why is it okay for Mahayana Buddhists to be actors?
Maybe there is a general hesitation to interfere in lay peoples superficial way of life? The Mahayana teachings focus on inner states of mind mainly, as far as I understand. The advices for right behavior are valid for the ten unwholesome deeds, not killing, no stealing, no lying, no harsh speech e...
- Fri May 13, 2016 9:05 pm
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: Help With Judgmental Family
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2507
Re: Help With Judgmental Family
Hi everyone! I have been practicing Buddhism for almost 2 years now and for the most part have kept it private. One side if my family is Lutheran and very strict, while the other is atheist and also very strict. Family members on both sides have noticed that I own a meditation cushion, mala beads, ...
- Sat May 07, 2016 7:56 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: POTUS 2016, part 2
- Replies: 311
- Views: 30523
Re: POTUS 2016, part 2
Hillary is going to have her work cut out for her. Numbers wise, at this point Trump is the one with a big deficit to make up in the general election, he is currently polling well below her. Anything can happen of course, but as it stands now that's the case. Hard to tell this early on of course. I...
- Thu May 05, 2016 5:02 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: POTUS 2016, part 2
- Replies: 311
- Views: 30523
Re: POTUS 2016, part 2
Hillary is going to have her work cut out for her.
- Wed May 04, 2016 12:54 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Preparing for Zen
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1358
Re: Preparing for Zen
gavenv wrote:What do you do to prepare for sitting Zen?
You're cushion.
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:05 am
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: POTUS 2016, part 2
- Replies: 311
- Views: 30523
Re: POTUS 2016, part 2
Donald Trump is hillary clinton's worst nightmare.
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:22 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: POTUS 2016, part 2
- Replies: 311
- Views: 30523
Re: POTUS 2016, part 2
If the Republican party are not successful in sabotaging Trump at the finishing line, he beats Hilary.