Yes, there is ignorance also. I agree.Grigoris wrote:It's also "entrenched" in ignorance, so why do you not ask about notions of justified stupidity and foolishness in Buddhism?Joka wrote:I ask because of practical reasons regarding the world we live in that is entrenched in violence and conflict.
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- Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:43 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
- Replies: 55
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Re: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:38 pm
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: The Goal Of Meditation.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4623
Re: The Goal Of Meditation.
When one meditates, what is its goal for the individual? What is its purpose? What is meditation fulfilling? Zanmai-o-zanmai (SBGZ, BDK ed, vol 3, p 371): To transcend the whole universe at once, to live a great and valuable life in the house of the Buddhist patriarchs, is to sit in the full lotus ...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:35 pm
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: The Goal Of Meditation.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4623
Re: The Goal Of Meditation.
Since this was posted in the soto section, I'll give the soto take on it. I like how Alan Watts once expressed it: "...Zazen is most fundamentally not a method for achieving anything. It is, like dancing, an expression of achievement". When I heard that, it clicked for me why Dogen insist...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:46 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13754
Re: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
Can you extrapolate on that more? I think that I understand what you're saying but more would be helpful.Nemo wrote:Sometimes the best course of action if losing. Being brave does not only mean fighting and winning. Winning always comes with a cost.
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:40 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13754
Re: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
Another reason I created this thread because in ancient past Buddhist warrior monks like the Sohei fought very passionately for what they believed in. I'm told (sorry, can't source it) that originally you could not be a monk and a soldier. Professional killers were excluded from the sangha. I would...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:38 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13754
Re: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
Can you explain that further?tiagolps wrote:Most japanese never liked the sohei, they were controversial back then as well. They were mafia disguised as monksJoka wrote:Somehow I think Japanese people would disagree.Malcolm wrote:This is a Japanese corruption of Buddhadharma.
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:34 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5271
- Views: 879553
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:28 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhist Anarchism
- Replies: 1002
- Views: 166723
Re: Buddhist Anarchism
Anarchism is where nobody gets to pick.Malcolm wrote:So, who is going to pick winners and losers?Joka wrote:Maybe so, but this inequality is only increasing with the modern world being the epitome or apex of it.Malcolm wrote:
There will always be inequality. This is a result of karma.
Karma is unerring.
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:18 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13754
Re: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
There's quite a few Buddhist countries in the world. They've all got a military, police force and judicial system. That tells me that buddhist or not sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do. Unfortunately it's a real world we live in not a Buddhist utopia. And that is one of the points I'm...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:13 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13754
Re: Notion Of Justified War Or Violence.
What is a Buddhist to do say in the presence of a group of people that above all else desire power and will do anything to keep that power including all spectrums of human unspeakable acts or behaviors? Buddhists probably say that such is karma, with everything that entails. Does the Buddhist sit o...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:59 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5271
- Views: 879553
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:52 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5271
- Views: 879553
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:49 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhist Anarchism
- Replies: 1002
- Views: 166723
Re: Buddhist Anarchism
Direct democracy does not scale well. It works fine at the village and town level, but that's about it. Secondly, the success of any democracy depends on the education level of its constituents. Poorly educated people tend to make poor choices. That is why I support small time localism within a sor...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:13 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5271
- Views: 879553
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:50 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhist Anarchism
- Replies: 1002
- Views: 166723
Re: Buddhist Anarchism
The theory of the necessity of an authoritarian vanguard party is not common to all strains of Marxist political thought, but is particularly associated with Marxism-Leninism. Many Marxists, on the contrary, seek to establish a social order in which the means of production, and all other institutio...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 2:52 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhist Anarchism
- Replies: 1002
- Views: 166723
Re: Buddhist Anarchism
When one meditates, are they not connecting to nature its primordial connection to everything in totality? Much of the problems human beings face are self-inflicted within the constrained realms of civilization because of turning our backs on nature. Yes, turning our back to nature and we go to liv...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 2:48 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhist Anarchism
- Replies: 1002
- Views: 166723
Re: Buddhist Anarchism
When the Dalai Lama was asked he put it like this: Q: You have often stated that you would like to achieve a synthesis between Buddhism and Marxism. What is the appeal of Marxism for you? HHDL: Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles, while...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:48 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhist Anarchism
- Replies: 1002
- Views: 166723
Re: Buddhist Anarchism
When the Dalai Lama was asked he put it like this: Q: You have often stated that you would like to achieve a synthesis between Buddhism and Marxism. What is the appeal of Marxism for you? HHDL: Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles, while...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:28 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhist Anarchism
- Replies: 1002
- Views: 166723
Re: Buddhist Anarchism
All conversations revolve around opinions.
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:22 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhist Anarchism
- Replies: 1002
- Views: 166723
Re: Buddhist Anarchism
Sounds like you are describing Nationalism here, and yet... strangely enough... it seems you are talking about Marxism... For me a lot of Marxism is racially and culturally divisive concerning its analysis of both race or culture. The ultimate analysis of Marxism based on class conflict, not race o...