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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1113
Re: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
Rather than mango, I feel more like the curate's egg: some parts are excellent! Yeah unfortunately Nagarjuna focused on mangos. But I feel you, practice has so many components, and each of them has its own level of development. I am very happy to hear that you are confident about some parts of your...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1113
Re: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
Rather than mango, I feel more like the curate's egg: some parts are excellent!
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
- Replies: 20
- Views: 581
Re: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
So, those activities are less important than ethics, study, and meditation on the Dharma. Yes, I agree. But my point is, it's more important than our small good deeds in our daily lives. Voting for good/bad politician creates much greater amount of good/bad karma. I don't mean judging who is out of...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
- Replies: 20
- Views: 581
Re: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
So voting for such politicians is worse than having a bad conduct, likewise studying politics (so one can vote for the objectively least bad politician/good politician) is more important than studying how to make our behavior better. No, because we shouldn't seek answers to samsara outside of ourse...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
- Replies: 20
- Views: 581
Re: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
Buddhism takes for granted which actions are bad, and further explains that the consequences of said actions are bad because those actions are bad. I disagree. In my studies of Buddhist ethics and systems of rules, particularly in the Vinaya, I have found that every rule is accompanied by an origin...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1200
Re: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"
No.
Based on what I’ve understood from the teachings I’ve received and what I’ve read, both a and b statements are not explanations of what is meant by emptiness in Buddhism. So it follows your statement c also falls outside of Buddhist teachings.
Based on what I’ve understood from the teachings I’ve received and what I’ve read, both a and b statements are not explanations of what is meant by emptiness in Buddhism. So it follows your statement c also falls outside of Buddhist teachings.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 932
Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Would it? To me, both are equally neutral in tone. In what way do you find other less respectful?serenitykv wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:09 pm “Does not apply” would be more respectful wording than “Other”, at least.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Amitabha Phowa and faith
- Replies: 9
- Views: 471
Re: Amitabha Phowa and faith
Hello, I have a question regarding Amitabha Phowa (that Phowa practice which goal is a rebirth in Amitabha's Pure Land). How do faith and vow to be reborn in Amitabha's Pure Land, affect rebirth using Phowa? In Tibetan Buddhism, teachings on Sukhavati and Buddha Amitabha don't speak much about fait...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:51 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
- Replies: 202
- Views: 8133
Re: Politics in dharma center - article
This reminds me of my first year at University: my friends who were studying with the Geography faculty were told, "Everything is Geography!" my friends who were studying with the Physics faculty were told, "Everything is Physics!" my friends who were studying with the Chemistry ...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Please tell me how a meditator is supposed to sleep
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2038
Re: Please tell me how a meditator is supposed to sleep
When I can’t sleep, I drink a cup of espresso coffee and then I can sleep. Obviously this is not a remedy for most people. Hah! Me too. I quickly learned at University, trying to complete essays due the next morning, that coffee acts like sleeping tablets to me! If I need to stay awake, I'm far bet...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Relationship Between Mahayana Sutras And Abhidharma
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1734
Re: Relationship Between Mahayana Sutras And Abhidharma
It's clear that Madhyamaka and Yogacara are reactionary responses to Abhidharma. okay, so it's your idea. What is strange is that some Mahayana monks adopt Abhidharma concepts. I just saw a Tibetan monk using the Abhidharma to explain karma. It's only strange if you think Madhyamika and Yogacara ar...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Relationship Between Mahayana Sutras And Abhidharma
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1734
Re: Relationship Between Mahayana Sutras And Abhidharma
Mahayana was a counteraction to the doctrines of the Abhidharma scriptures. Is this your own idea or one you have read? From a scholarly point of view, there are several competing theories about the origin of the Mahayana but as yet, no definitive evidence. Most experts suggest that rather than bei...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Which of the following activities do you consider sexual misconduct? (continued)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2616
Re: Which of the following activities do you consider sexual misconduct? (continued)
First they cite Buddha who was rather vague and thus they are vague. Or they cite shastras and especially Gampopa and Tsongkhapa who enjoyed the topic a bit too much and forbid orificies, times of day, etc etc. Or they ignore that its even a question thus evading controvers but not helping the dial...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: tombstones
- Replies: 4
- Views: 555
Re: tombstones
Perhaps, rather than leaving a virtual flower online somewhere, you can sponsor some prayers for their good rebirth with a temple you know and trust.
When my mother and father both died, I asked Kopan Monastery for prayers on their behalf.
When my mother and father both died, I asked Kopan Monastery for prayers on their behalf.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Where do ETs/NHI fit into Tibetan Buddhist cosmology?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 801
Re: Where do ETs/NHI fit into Tibetan Buddhist cosmology?
Whatever this UAP/USO phenomena are, Pentagon whistleblowers, if accurate/honest, say these things are interacting with humans regularly in observable and tangible ways. It might make them more relevant to us than some of the beings regularly discussed in Buddhist cosmology. If such beings are not ...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Luminosity and Reflexive Awareness in Ratnākaraśānti’s Teachings
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1234
Re: Luminosity and Reflexive Awareness in Ratnākaraśānti’s Teachings
In dependence on “mind only,” External objects become unintelligible. Having focused on suchness, One should also pass beyond “mind only.” Having passed beyond “mere mind,” One should pass into non-appearance. The yogi who abides in non-appearance Sees the Great Vehicle. from Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra Can ...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Luminosity and Reflexive Awareness in Ratnākaraśānti’s Teachings
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1234
Re: Luminosity and Reflexive Awareness in Ratnākaraśānti’s Teachings
In what way does it make sense to you? In what way would dharmas originate independently and, therefore, inherently exist?Vajrasvapna wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:36 pm If there are dharmas that are originated dependently, therefore empty of inherent existence, it makes sense that their opposite exists.
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Exercise - Rucking
- Replies: 13
- Views: 892
Re: Exercise - Rucking
This does just sound like doing any hike or hill walk properly, i.e. carrying the proper safety supplies and appropriate spare clothing with maybe a camera and a couple of lenses. I guess it's a way of easing those who only walk in city parks or on treadmills into going somewhere more strenuous. The...
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:31 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Logical refutations of a permanent self
- Replies: 75
- Views: 3333
Re: Logical refutations of a permanent self
what about a monad which eternally generates(as a natural consequence of it's undivided one act of being) the world of conditioned things and composites,that indeed does not interact with things,it is unchanging, How can something eternally generate the world of conditioned things AND be unchanging...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 10:04 am
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Appearing and Empty and a million knowers!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1027
Re: Appearing and Empty and a million knowers!
I think you might find it's not as unfamiliar as it seems - just new phraseology/translation choice. I think this is mostly referring to the seven types of awareness from lorig: THE SEVEN TYPES OF AWARENESS – these are: 1. direct perceivers 2. inferential cognizers 3. subsequent cognizers 4. correct...