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by PadmaVonSamba
Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:27 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Symbolism of Master sitting on chair
Replies: 1
Views: 45

Re: Symbolism of Master sitting on chair

workbalance wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:07 am I have noticed that in many depictions Zen masters sit on a chair with legs folded, i.e., not touching the ground, while the shoes are clearly visible and conspicuously empty.
Can you post an example?
by PadmaVonSamba
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:37 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
Replies: 15
Views: 1248

Re: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive

As the West takes over the entire planet, temples in places where Buddhism thrived for centuries are facing the same problems, though at different scales. I don’t that think western influence is what is causing whatever difficulties temples are facing in the east. China has probably had the biggest...
by PadmaVonSamba
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:24 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
Replies: 4
Views: 198

Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra

do I have to just grit my teeth and bear the absurdity of the Lotus Sutra? 1. No, just base your practice on either the longer or shorter Amitabha Sutras. 2. Thinking, “I don’t like it because it reminds me of…” —something totally unrelated such as Christianity, this has to do with you and your own...
by PadmaVonSamba
Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:56 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Do you get rid of suffering for good with Dzogchen ?
Replies: 6
Views: 326

Re: Do you get rid of suffering for good with Dzogchen ?

- The suffering of the pressure of the senses, such as craving to eat good food, craving to turn the head to watch a beautiful girl/man, craving to hear good music, wanting to do sport for the sake of aesthetics or beautification. Craving to react with anger in a given situation. - The suffering of...
by PadmaVonSamba
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:07 pm
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: Love
Replies: 6
Views: 545

Re: Love

When we talk about love; is it love of humanity, love of a girl, existence or love of what? What are you talking about? Trying to examine the word love. ı hadn't think it's meaning before. when look in inside and not the direction it points...still strange. Look in a dictionary. If you feel love fo...
by PadmaVonSamba
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: How to respond to theistic/deistic arguments from a Madhyamaka point of view?
Replies: 21
Views: 1125

Re: How to respond to theistic/deistic arguments from a Madhyamaka point of view?

I know that Vasubhandu accepted that space and tathata are compounded and uncreated, and just exist with no parts or causes. 1. You can’t say something is compounded and also exists with no parts. 2. Don’t equate space with being a “first cause” unless it causes something. Space doesn’t cause thing...
by PadmaVonSamba
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:13 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: How to respond to theistic/deistic arguments from a Madhyamaka point of view?
Replies: 21
Views: 1125

Re: How to respond to theistic/deistic arguments from a Madhyamaka point of view?

I came across an atheist's counter-argument to the Aristotelian idea of the unmoved mover/initial cause, with parallels with Indian culture. This counter-argument aligns with Buddhism and current cosmology. It suggests placing space and time as the unmoved mover, where instead of a cause, we would ...
by PadmaVonSamba
Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:24 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: another question about rebirth (continued)
Replies: 3
Views: 173

Re: another question about rebirth (continued)

Let me see if I understand your analogy of feelings and emotions that transmigrate, rather than a “Self”. The point is, we make the mistake of thinking There is an “I”( self) who, in this lifetime has qualities that will then belong to “I” (self) in a subsequent lifetime. But there is no separate o...
by PadmaVonSamba
Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:17 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5590

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

We have the opposite problem, where there is not even enough basis to get started and hooked into the teachings. Has anyone asked the lama why ? I’m asking because very often western students are reluctant to confront lamas directly. I think it’s because of how delicately we think we are supposed t...
by PadmaVonSamba
Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:27 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?
Replies: 5
Views: 337

Re: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?

it's interesting that even tirhtikas acknowledge that something permanent and self sufficient must be unconditioned and thus have no qualities,madhyamika takes it a step further it seems and says since it has no qualities it has no existance. It’s the other way around: For something to be unconditi...
by PadmaVonSamba
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:18 pm
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: The metaphorical character of the Dhamma.
Replies: 9
Views: 626

Re: The metaphorical character of the Dhamma.

the Buddha treats the notion of the Self as something illusory, conditioned and impermanent, so why would the “reality” of the teachings on rebirth be any less illusory, conditioned and impermanent? If the six realms were taught as a "reality", is that reality as real as the notion of a S...
by PadmaVonSamba
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:59 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?
Replies: 5
Views: 337

Re: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?

Artziebetter1 wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:48 am is it because a permanent thing has to be unconditioned,and thus since it has no qualities,it cannot have knowledge or consciousness?
Can you please cite the source for context?
by PadmaVonSamba
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5590

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

One lama, when asked to teach, asked why he should teach when there were already some recordings of his teachings available to the sangha. I’m going to argue for the moment that this lama makes an excellent point, and that this may be a key to answering the whole question. What’s wrong with just li...
by PadmaVonSamba
Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:08 am
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: The metaphorical character of the Dhamma.
Replies: 9
Views: 626

Re: The metaphorical character of the Dhamma.

I can only take the teachings of the Ten realms as something metaphorical and nothing supernatural, just a teaching about the stages of consciousness of human beings. I think the reason why Buddha did not give direct answers to some questions is that ultimately they are the wrong questions, meaning...
by PadmaVonSamba
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:00 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Poll idea - who is your teacher
Replies: 5
Views: 168

Re: Poll idea - who is your teacher

But for me, the benefits are: 1. Getting to know about the existence of teachers I did not know before 2. Seeing that there are more people on this forum who share the same teacher as me 1. Finding out about new teachers, there are probably better ways using the internet. Or, you could mention spec...
by PadmaVonSamba
Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:53 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Poll idea - who is your teacher
Replies: 5
Views: 168

Re: Poll idea - who is your teacher

I won’t say who my teacher is because I am such a lousy student and it might reflect back on him. I think that’s a built-in problem with this idea. It is very difficult to avoid appearing as though one is boasting. I do think that one could suggest teachers they think are good, who may not be their ...
by PadmaVonSamba
Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:25 pm
Forum: Dying and Death
Topic: Rebirth in the past
Replies: 23
Views: 1463

Re: Rebirth in the past

If you look at the Big Dipper constellation (Ursa Major) constellation right now, in the present, you are seeing what it looked like about a century ago. If you lived on a planet orbiting the north star and right now you could see people on Earth, you would see us as we were (what would seem to us a...
by PadmaVonSamba
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:31 am
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Question about hair in Tibetan medicine
Replies: 1
Views: 341

Re: Question about hair in Tibetan medicine

I've always been interested in finding out Why ask about Tibetan medicine? Although it is possible that the gene mutation causing that might also indicate a likelihood of other conditions to look out for, genomic research hadn’t gotten that specific yet. And I don’t think Tibetan medicine has branc...
by PadmaVonSamba
Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:44 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5590

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

I just can’t see it justifying the extreme self-aggrandizing approach of the book. Welcome to the modern version of filling the first 20 pages of a sutra with the names of countless Buddhas, bodhisattvas, celestial beings as well as every possible aggrandizement and accolade imaginable. The more im...
by PadmaVonSamba
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:03 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Vajrayana in the spectrum
Replies: 41
Views: 2835

Re: Vajrayana in the spectrum

jet.urgyen wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:57 pm what they know about autism? nothing. only what a book can tell.
I don’t undtstand what this means.

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