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Hi everyone! I have been very taken by Zen Buddhism and particularly the teachings of Suzuki Roshi. His words have moved me incredibly. That said, speaking to my family about some of these topics and the story of Suzuki Roshi moving to San Francisco, the drama that eventually happened there…there i...

Yes, I read Tipitaka and came to this conclusion because I have an agnostic bias (I am an agnostic), and honestly with this bias I gained many benefits for practical life, with the literal view in my case this would not be possible. You read the Tripitaka but not did accurately recall the Sutta you...

Most certainly in the Pali Canon multiple realms, rebirth, etc. are taught as regular features, say nothing of Mahayana sources. Saying “oh well it’s because he was teaching to Hindus” is a poor claim and not one that even many secular scholars would take seriously- even if it confirmed their own be...

I think this is not a particularly great idea, for a number of reasons. If you want to connect with other students of certain teachers it’s probably best just to ask. For example, it is easy to assume there are many followers of ChNNR here. But how many followers of Khandro Rinpoche or Dolpo Tulku R...

I was once forced in a class (seriously) to watch The Secret, which is sort of the “root text” of a lot of that garbage. Me too, last semester! We talked about it a bit before my class started. My class, honestly, ended up being really good. Regardless of differences of opinion, the teacher was ver...

One of my teachers is a Tibetan also trained in Western psych and therapy. He actually has adopted some of the horizontal “Western”teaching style. I have another ethnically Tibet teacher who has done the same. I feel like despite being very traditional in some ways ChNN had a style favorably dispose...

Genuinely curious as to what type of class would show that. You don't strike me as the sort of person who studies in Liberty U or similar places... I don’t think Liberty U would show it, it’s more a new age thing. It looks like there’s some family looking movie called the secret vaguely based on it...

I was once forced in a class (seriously) to watch The Secret, which is sort of the “root text” of a lot of that garbage. Genuinely curious as to what type of class would show that. You don't strike me as the sort of person who studies in Liberty U or similar places... I don’t think Liberty U would ...

But the majority of younger seekers will be drawn to youtube videos and all-inclusive, universalist mindfulness type things, and "manifesting". God I hate the "manifesting" world. lol. But thats a whole other thing. I was once forced in a class (seriously) to watch The Secret, w...

This is a classic misunderstanding. Stick your hand into a fire and you will find out that there is a big difference between an intellectual grasp of the concept of non-substantiality and the reality you experience. Anyway, Buddhism has never said that life IS an illusion (compared to what?), but r...

Just sitting up there and doing it the same old way that is not working and just insisting that the students are flawed is not the way we get past the gray dharma centers. The teachers need to adapt. Teaching is not a collaborative enterprise. When I used to go to dharma centers, it would annoy me ...

That’s why I go by whether a condition involving cognitive functioning actually dis-ables a person (makes them unable) and my criteria for that is being able to advocate for oneself independently. My son could spell words before he was 2 years old. He liked learning foreign languages. But he would ...

Wish Malcolm was here to give his view on this, I’ve always assumed that from a Tibetan medicine pov ADHD, Autism and related conditions would be sort of connected to deviations of “normal” lung (not the organ) functioning. I quit medication for ADHD in my 30s due to health risks, since then I used ...

Gee... 3 people out of 2.4 billion expressed a particular view. don't equate yourself with 2.4 billion people. so far that's 3 vs your opinion why would you bother with commonly accepted dogma to understand what the vast majority of Christians think, correct? i was interested to hear what qualified...

Does anyone know if this myth has a particular origin? I don't know of its initial origin but in the English-speaking world there's a long history of saying such things. In Victorian and Edwardian times it was rather common among non-Buddhist writers who were well-disposed towards the Buddha but no...

Come to Greece, and I will introduce you to a few million Greek Orthodox Christians that believe that God is an entity. you sure? because one of the guys i inquired was a monk at mount Athos for 6 years. Are you sure they were sharing your definition of entity? Part of the doctrine of all the Abrah...

If you are trying to set up a societal system, that sort of defeats the purpose of anarchism. Mostly it’s an identity trip. Buddhism is bad for identity trips. Go read some anarchist authors, this is so far off the mark of what anarchism is historically, it's basically the (incorrect) pop culture d...

If you are trying to set up a societal system, that sort of defeats the purpose of anarchism. Mostly it’s an identity trip. Buddhism is bad for identity trips. Go read some anarchist authors, this is so far off the mark of what anarchism is historically, it's basically the (incorrect) pop culture d...

One of the main therapies for ASD is very controversial because it basically involves training kids to “not act autistic”, the argument is that this often has more to do with social expectations than with the welfare of the patient. That’s Behavioral Intervention therapy, which I will defend (based...

I have close contact with two with autism spectrum, both very intelligent. The first is not able to show some empathy, sees the world as stupid. The other is very much caring, sees a bleeding wounded pigeon along the way in winter, takes her pullover off to put the bleeding one in it and take it wi...