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Does this mean we can't print out the text to use in our practice, or is this just boilerplate legalese that we can ignore? Not even sure why it's there in the first place - I've seen Buddhist books with notices in the same place stating that they can be freely distributed but not sold. The publish...

I would it not make more sense to see all masters as equal and not place any above? Including avoiding attachment to the Guru as an object? Would not the ultimate Guru be the Dharmakaya? “Would not the ultimate Guru be the Dharmakaya?” Yes, of course. But this needs to be seen as a sort of poetic r...

I have been researching the concept of a root guru and whether it even makes sense. . . . . The issue I see is that this concept seems to only serve to generate attachment and afflictions. I think you need to look at not only the concept, but the context as well. Otherwise, your speculations concer...

Any thoughts welcome My thought is that the same things that cause beings to be stuck in samsara are the things that prevent such a dream from becoming a reality. People have had this dream for a long time. Particularly right after the end of WW1 when most of the planet had been conquered by the mo...

Vajrasvapna wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:47 pm I have been studying the phenomenon of Buddhist Karma and Causality.

I think you will get a lot from this podcast teaching:
https://urbandharmancpodcast.wordpress. ... it-part-1/

I get a lot of Hindu resources, which take a different approach than Buddhism, because they ultimately see Ganesha as a form of a capital-G God and Buddhism sees Ganesha as a deva being and dharma protector. Conversely, many Hindus regard the Buddha as a manifestation of Shiva and keep Buddha image...

“भारतीय” (bharati) it means someone from India. भारतीय would be bhāratīya, which is someone from India. भारती is bhāratī, which can have different meanings. It could be something like a female descendant of Bhārat (if we take Bhārat to refer to the historical Indian king), or Mother India (if we ta...

I'm not trying to emphasise some sort of vague similarity between different religious teachings on the ultimate nature of reality while blatantly ignoring the obvious, stark differences. What I try to emphasise is that regardless of the content of any formulation, it is drawn from/in response to ex...

About one-in-ten Asian American adults (11%) say their religion is Buddhism, a slight decline from 14% in 2012. A much larger share (21%) currently say that, aside from religion, they feel close to Buddhism for reasons such as ancestry or culture. In total, one-third of Asian Americans express at le...

Does using Dharma names create positive karma? If I address someone with their Dharma name or others address me by mine. Karma depends on the motivation. Calling somebody's name is an empty thing so far. The connotation creates the color of good, bad or neutral. Thank you for your answer. That's lo...

>whether any teachings are valid or not doesn’t rely on testing them out yourself, but strictly because of who gave them. That's very true, you see it fast when you start a debate with both sides. It’s a common approach among many who follow the Mahayana path as well: That Because the Buddha perfor...

wensumreed wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:23 pm The creative power of karma - 'karma can create things'.

Right. Karma doesn’t actually ‘create’ things.

Emptiness is something to be realized in a direct perception. Nagarjuna went to great lengths to deny that emptiness is something. It cannot be directly perceived. “Something” is a vague term here and you are both correct Insofar as emptiness can be realized, as in “I realize that phenomena have no...

Sorry, what is your meaning of DNS? Oh man, you're serious? DNS is the acronym of the guy who owns Dharmawheel, Dhamawheel, etc: https://www.dharmawheel.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2 Sorry I wasn’t ‘hip’ to that. I never concerned myself with who owns this thing. So then… Is he the ma...

It's only due to a couple of misunderstandings, e. g. the idea that the palicanon is the first and only authentic buddhist source and the only direct word of the Buddha himself. I think along with this is the idea that the teachings are true only because the historical Buddha taught them (an extens...

mutsuk wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:50 pm

Ummmm…. DNS is a computer protocol system that connects domain names with servers.
It’s not a person.

You're wasting our time, man...

Sorry, what is your meaning of DNS?

Pot, meet kettle. I'm not singling you out, but, many of your critiques in this thread could apply to you in this thread... Oh yeah? I don't think I have voiced any conservative or alt-right opinion in any of my thread. I've just voiced concern about the ease with which some manifest hatred towards...

I perceive alt-right people - everywhere - whining about how they were not free to say the the things they want to say. But actually, they cannot stand that opponents call out their speech as misanthropic, unfair and dangerous. One could laugh about this twisting of facts, if it wasn't so demagogic...

Are you quite sure you aren’t simply being cited for making unsubstantiated accusations? How could I know? You have to ask those who cite me. Your question is pretty weird. So, you don’t know exactly why your posts are omitted. Do you know for a fact that the moderators are members of left wing org...

:jawdrop: I wasn’t saying that Dharma isn’t applicable in all Aspects of life. That’s kind of the point of it, in fact. All I am saying is that it would be helpful to keep conversations meaningful and somewhat on track (not to mention pertinent to the purpose of this forum) if people would try to p...