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by Caoimhghín
Wed Nov 02, 2022 8:07 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Music time
Replies: 5271
Views: 879512

Re: Music time

"Just the right cheese" is "the highest of all arts:"

by Caoimhghín
Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:05 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Someone go tell DJKR
Replies: 163
Views: 11683

Re: Someone go tell DJKR

enough musicians, conductors, ... willingly cooperated to gain or maintain standing. Richard Strauss. Very talented. Very foolish. I have no opinion of DJKR outside of his writings, mostly on social media. The first thing I read of his was his book (really a compilation of an oral teaching series) ...
by Caoimhghín
Tue Jul 05, 2022 11:32 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Music time
Replies: 5271
Views: 879512

Re: Music time

by Caoimhghín
Tue Jun 28, 2022 10:59 pm
Forum: Nichiren
Topic: Did Nichiren introduced yogachara concept in his teaching or were they already part of tendai?
Replies: 62
Views: 6520

Re: Did Nichiren introduced yogachara concept in his teaching or were they already part of tendai?

This was a good thread to return to DharmaWheel for. :popcorn: Short answer: they were already a part of Tendai, but that doesn't mean that historical Tiāntāi didn't at one point place itself in opposition to Yogācāra teachings. The Tendai sect has also been at different times in opposition to the H...
by Caoimhghín
Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:33 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Music time
Replies: 5271
Views: 879512

Re: Music time

by Caoimhghín
Wed May 25, 2022 12:37 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Trouble reconciling Pali/Sanskrit teachings
Replies: 11
Views: 744

Re: Trouble reconciling Pali/Sanskrit teachings

There are a few hints that tell us that the "Sanskrit" tradition of Buddhism is actually a "Sanskritized" tradition, hence the current term "Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit." Sometimes Buddhist texts are in a "pure" pseudo-Brahmanical Sanskrit. Sometimes they are in ...
by Caoimhghín
Thu May 19, 2022 2:24 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Chakravartin, Indian myth of a Flying Saucer King
Replies: 34
Views: 1723

Re: Chakravartin, Indian myth of a Flying Saucer King

I'm looking at it this way: Physical objects cannot actually travel at light-speed, at faster-than-light-speed, or even substantially near light-speed. Objects become energy. Matter dematerializes. If they can re-materialize a spaceship, they might as well just re-materialize their bodies, which the...
by Caoimhghín
Thu May 19, 2022 1:48 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Chakravartin, Indian myth of a Flying Saucer King
Replies: 34
Views: 1723

Re: Chakravartin, Indian myth of a Flying Saucer King

Travelling to earth through deep space, in a physical craft, i.e. a "flying saucer," is completely fantastical, so they might as well be from parallel dimensions or even the airs of the sky somehow. It's a very "human" thing, IMO, to suggest that they would need a "spacecraf...
by Caoimhghín
Mon Apr 25, 2022 10:56 am
Forum: Zen
Topic: another question about rebirth
Replies: 194
Views: 11171

Re: another question about rebirth

He goes on to note that speculation like those described above lead to consideration of metaphysical views - something the Buddha did not engage in. That which is "meta" physical is that which is beyond the physical, or "after" the physical. Consciousness, the dharmas, and even ...
by Caoimhghín
Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:50 am
Forum: Nichiren
Topic: Gohonzon and buddha estatue
Replies: 5
Views: 1423

Re: Gohonzon and buddha estatue

IMO, if you're practicing Nichiren Buddhism, you should do the practice as the Daishōnin directed. Certainly, there's nothing wrong with chanting the daimoku in front of a buddharūpa. There's nothing wrong with chanting it in the shower. But IMO (and I am not a Nichiren Buddhist, so keep that in min...
by Caoimhghín
Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:24 am
Forum: Zen
Topic: another question about rebirth
Replies: 194
Views: 11171

Re: another question about rebirth

Malcolm wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 11:01 pmDzogchen cosmogony is simply a variation on the the cyclical cosmogony of the Abdharmakoṣabhaśya, and I can prove it.
I don't particularly dispute this, but it would be interesting to see it proven. Don't they have a cosmic egg myth similar to some strands of Chinese creation myth?
by Caoimhghín
Sat Apr 23, 2022 11:43 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: another question about rebirth
Replies: 194
Views: 11171

Re: another question about rebirth

PadmaVonSamba wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 10:59 am1. I don’t think there’s anything to support the idea of ‘mind stuff’ but then, I’m not sure what that is.
One could argue that the "mind stuff" is nāman, like how the "body stuff" is rūpa.
by Caoimhghín
Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:00 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6337

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

justsit wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:13 pmLol, if that's the worst thing I'd ever been called I'd call it a win.
"Just don't call me late for dinner while you misgender me!"
:group:
by Caoimhghín
Fri Apr 22, 2022 2:52 pm
Forum: Dying and Death
Topic: Opinions on Roger Jackson's "Rebirth"?
Replies: 36
Views: 4553

Re: Opinions on Roger Jackson's "Rebirth"?

Him and Nanavira Bhikkhu.
by Caoimhghín
Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:38 pm
Forum: Dying and Death
Topic: Opinions on Roger Jackson's "Rebirth"?
Replies: 36
Views: 4553

Re: Opinions on Roger Jackson's "Rebirth"?

It’s not a question of belief in rebirth, but an acknowledgement that the existential question the Buddha sought to remedy was the question of rebirth. IMO, the issue with Buddhist modernists, the sorts of modernists who jettison anything that seems "too ethnic/Indian/superstitious," is t...
by Caoimhghín
Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:54 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Someone go tell DJKR
Replies: 163
Views: 11683

Re: Someone go tell DJKR

The fact that you think that there's rampant "trash-talking" of him, to me, means that your perspective might be a bit skewed.

Do you think that this post is "trash-talk" of you?
by Caoimhghín
Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:46 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Oscars shocker!
Replies: 108
Views: 7432

Re: Oscars shocker!

Captain save a hoe to the rescue. Chris Rock should of responded by beating the piss out of him. He couldn't have done so even if he had "the balls to," as the kids say. Lots of people daily say things that they ought to be slapped for. This court jester, Rock, got slapped by an aristocra...
by Caoimhghín
Fri Mar 25, 2022 10:35 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Proclamations of Attainment
Replies: 28
Views: 1789

Re: Proclamations of Attainment

There's also the issue of impersonating a member of the Āryasaṃgha. This is a big no-no as far as I've been taught the Dharma. It's interesting how this is so easy to find in the prātimokṣa, but difficult to find outrightly stated in the bodhisattvaśīla. My tentative conclusion is that it was consi...
by Caoimhghín
Fri Mar 25, 2022 9:07 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Proclamations of Attainment
Replies: 28
Views: 1789

Re: Proclamations of Attainment

There's also the issue of impersonating a member of the Āryasaṃgha. This is a big no-no as far as I've been taught the Dharma. It's interesting how this is so easy to find in the prātimokṣa, but difficult to find outrightly stated in the bodhisattvaśīla. My tentative conclusion is that it was consid...
by Caoimhghín
Fri Mar 25, 2022 12:39 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Proclamations of Attainment
Replies: 28
Views: 1789

Re: Proclamations of Attainment

Yes, the trouble is that this isn't covered in the root downfalls, or anywhere in the Akasagarbhasutra that I see here. I'll go look again, however.

Back in the day, when the monastic Bodhisattva community was also observing the vinaya, it would be a non-issue.

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