Dharma Wheel

Grigoris wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:26 pm

It seems the fact that Bosnia, Herzegovina and Albania are Muslim majority European nations, has bypassed all the ubermensch in this thread calling for European purity.

And?

The Dalai Lama spoke about refugees coming to Europe, not about the native population of two relativly small countries.

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/dalai-lama-says-europe-belongs-to-europeans Quite honestly, I have to agree with H.H. I am not super happy about it but I am starting to be afraid that their religion driven culture will prove to be incompatible with our European ones. What do you...

Malcolm wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:05 pm

You are free. You can do whatever you want. Everyone else does. It's up to students to decide who is a qualified teacher. It is also up to teachers to decide who is a qualified student.

Impermenance is the very nature of all phenomena. Of course this does not change when we are in rigpa. Quite the opposite (as Magnus already said). Yeah, not quite. In dzogchen is totally different. Your primordially pure state is the nature of all dharmas. The Kunjed Gyalpo says:" I am the root of...

Impermenance is the very nature of all phenomena. Of course this does not change when we are in rigpa. Quite the opposite (as Magnus already said).

PeterC wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 23, 2018 4:42 am

It was great to see Uruguay being successful again this year after so long out of the spotlight. But the other countries do need to raise their game.

Uruguay finished 4th in 2010 world cup, too.

Motova wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:53 pm

Dharma sees our human bodies as wish fulfilling jewels.

Just to add: This is only true for Mahayana and Vajrayana. In Hinayana, the Body is also seen as dirty. There are even practices around this theme.

KY

So what are your thoughts about today's final?

I guess France will win, because their style fits really well against the way Croatia is playing.

I think we need some change on the side of players. Germany has many players that won more or less everything there is (Özil, Müller, Hummels, Khedira, Kroos, Neuer...). They are just not that hungry any more (which I can totally understand). So if Löw and Bierhoff (who plays an important role, too)...

I think you need to look at your World Cup history again. Eight Nations have won the World Cup and England is among them. Once, yes. Uruguay has won it more. (Actually Uruguay was a serious team up to the 70s - it was good to see them do well this time.) The problem with England is their almost unl...

amanitamusc wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:18 am

ford_truckin wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 11, 2018 11:27 pm

Amazing run by England. I thought they would of gotten knocked out in the earlier rounds. France will now defeat Croatia.

Croatia will win 3-1

Close. But not quite there

Inner peace is nice, but not sufficient.
Buddhism sounds more like a religion than a path.

The path is to realise wisdom and compassion.

Yeshe

ChNN is a master of Buddhist philosophy. He is not saying the two teachings are equivalent or lead to the same goal. Kevin... But he is saying that: "They don’t know that God is in our real nature. If you have that knowledge and you are reading the bible, you can see there are many words that indic...

Not sure if I'm getting your point here, Karma_Yeshe. What I said was that some, or actually quite a few Christian Theologians have an understanding of God that is compatible with Buddhist teachings about the alaya / kun gzhi. If you say that some others don't, OK, it doesn't really contradict me, ...

Remains the problem that Rinpoche's understanding of god has little to do with the christian concept of god. It has, if you read e.g. Nicolaus Cusanus, Meister Eckhardt, St. Augustin or Tillich. I'll wether stick to Bonhöffer or Rahner when it comes to christian understanding of god. I mean you als...

This quote stretches the upaya aspect too far, imo. It does not make any reference to or imply that the christian teachings are upaya. It just explains how someone with knowledge or someone practicing Dzogchen can understand the christian concept of god. Remains the problem that Rinpoche's understa...

This quote stretches the upaya aspect too far, imo.

There's a sutta where the Buddha basically says that the Dharma will disappear when monks are more interested in other forms of entertainment than in actually listening to Dharma teachings. So, I guess a lot of things are a threat to the Dharma... The sutra is about the source of the teachings. Bud...

There's a sutta where the Buddha basically says that the Dharma will disappear when monks are more interested in other forms of entertainment than in actually listening to Dharma teachings. So, I guess a lot of things are a threat to the Dharma... The sutra is about the source of the teachings. Bud...

From the Kāraṇḍa­vyūha : Those who continually gather and offer flowers and incense to Bodhisattva Mahāsattva Avalokiteśvara will become cakravartin kings who possess the seven jewels. The seven jewels are: the precious wheel, the precious horse, the precious elephant, the precious jewel, the preci...