Dharma Wheel

Would you say the same of other beliefs, like the five elements and the forces of yin and yang? Then Zou Yan might be that "some dude". But there are several other "energy" views out there, so just as combination with Chinese concepts can be acceptable, we might as well integrate readily available ...

Tradition is no proof, otherwise the Vedas should be accepted as well. Tradition and living lineage is not the same thing. At least not in the sense that the pali canon uses the term. Some did, some did not, and some rejected them. So, instead of relying on one's choice of great masters, why not on...

Scholars have their motivations of course. But other people seem largely motivated by their own affinities/aversions. For example, people who study Zen for some years but never learned or heard about such practices are hesitant to admit that perhaps their lineages lost something , or didn't preserv...

I think Osho has some sort of spiritual awakening, then made the cardinal sin of thinking this was the end of the matter and that all actions of his from there on out were enlightened actions. His own carte Blanche for complete spiritual bypass and utter lack of morality. Quite sad really.

It is a set of commitments one makes to the guru, one's vajra siblings, and the path in general. Though they are in fact secret, they are openly discussed by many people here all the time. karma-mechanically speaking, it is more than that though, right? What role do they play as an essential compon...

I do wonder why it is so difficult to give a straightforward explanation of it. It seems like something that ought to be taken on with clear comprehension. The samaya vows are actually secret and technically, should only be explained during or after the empowerment. M Ok, so that's the content of S...

Frankly, the only way to understand samaya is to receive empowerment and practice assiduously . Just as an example, in Sarma practices one recites the various aspects and vows of Samaya during "self-empowerment" rituals, and these are the same as those given during the empowerment. One of the commo...

It is quite unlikely that the Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra is a composition of Nāgārjuna. See Bronkhorst, Language and Reality: On an Episode in Indian Thought , from page 56 on. Apologies. I was simply going with a traditional attribution. We can call him Pseudo-Nāgārjuna until there is consensus on w...

Unannounced maintenance window? Doesn't sound like they know what they are doing.

Down for the nonce though. Did something happen?

Grigoris wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 24, 2017 12:47 pm

Who said that Buddhism is non-violent?

Is this is a joke? Ahimsa is a foundational tenet of Buddhism.

Nāgārāja Sāgara's daughter first transforms her gender from female and male in Shariputra's presence, then he (formerly she) goes off the the world system Vimala and attains Buddhahood. It is really quite clear in the text. In Sariputra's perception. Yes, in the undistorted, i.e., veridical direct ...

Commensurate means equivalent. Buddhanature is not equivalent to buddhahood. [semantic nazi]Not quite, but close enough I guess for the purpose of this discussion. I'd say the degree of equivalency between 'commensurate' and 'equivalent' is about commensurate with the degree of equivalence between ...

This is actually a Lotus Sutra school teaching attributable to Zhiyi, and its not just Mappo - its all times. And actually, this is the message of the Lotus Sutra itself. Its just that in Mappo, this sublime teaching is most appropriate. Sound familiar? Right, I don't accept either Zhiyi;s interpre...

Apart from having issues with the accuracy of the translation you are using (Kumarajiva) What issues do you have with Kumarajiva? Last I checked, most scholars who expressed doubts about the quality of his translations did so because they compared his translations to later sanskrit versions of thos...

He didn't say Nagarjuna was a closet Theravadin. He said he was probably thoroughly familiar with it. While the exact quote of a Theravada association probably comes from an interview with him, there are quotes in his writings that attempt to make the case that he was not in fact a Mahayani. In fac...

seems out of touch- whatever the evidence might be to make such an argument, it assumes that thousands of realized teachers utilizing this teaching have been mistaken Jake How are they supposed to know if it is apocrypha? I don't think either scenario changes the validity of the message. Which is a...

A psychotherapist friend who has a deep background in Zen said he's come to believe after decades of work with Buddhist practitioners that spiritual health and psychological health are really quite different, that one doesn't at all necessarily follow the other. In particular, he thinks, people who...

jake wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:41 pm

Why do you think people prefer FB?

real identities helps to keep things real.

The same will happen to DW sooner or later.

it has been immeasurable, boundless hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, millions of nayutas of kalpas since I in fact attained buddhahood. Ever since then I have been constantly in this saha world, preaching the Law, teaching, and converting. ...I appear in different places and preach to them under...