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- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5271
- Views: 879475
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2490
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
So, when you are not busy setting up straw men, you are moving goal posts.
You asked a freaking question, you got a freaking answer.
Now go Sea Lion somebody else.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2490
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
What has the AntiFa movement achieved? The antifa movment in Greece spearheaded the resistance to Golden Dawn (GD) forcing the New Democracy government to take legal action against GD, which led to the leadership being jailed and the party being banned. The tipping point was the GD assassination of...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2490
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
A communist is just an anarchist with a multigenerational plan to reach anarchy. There are no successful anarchist projects. Vietnam and Cuba are ML and have promising futures. China produced the longest strongest period of growth and lifted the most people out of poverty ever seen in history. Libe...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 916
Re: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
Eastern Christians even invented two saints (Barlaam and Iosaphat) in order to present the life of the Buddha as being that of a Christian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlaam_and_Josaphat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlaam_and_Josaphat
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2490
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
One of the key characteristics of a poser, is that they consider everybody else a poser.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 916
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The Ngakpa Tradition - An interview with Lama Rangbar Nyima Özer
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1078
Re: The Ngakpa Tradition - An interview with Lama Rangbar Nyima Özer
You must be from the US. You're like the Donald Trump of buddhists. You think Americans know about football legends?🤣 Try again. Southern country and would be proud if you call me by our idol🤣 For a moment I was trying to imagine what the Maradona of ngakpas would look like, then realized that was ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 916
Re: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
he was still a monk, just no longer on mount Athos. anyways, i got my answers from 3 separate people, 2 eastern orthodox monks and 1 catholic bishop. i guess christians dont have uniform beliefs? bummer) Gee... 3 people out of 2.4 billion expressed a particular view. Sounds to me like a solid basis...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2490
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
What a myopic statement. The IWW had a significant influence on the history of organized labor in the US. Similarly, you can read about anarchists in the Spanish civil war fighting fascists, etc. You are basically just taking a stereotype and claiming it applies universally. Sure, lots of activists...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 916
Re: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
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. Dude. I was brought up in a religious minded Greek Orthodox Christian family. Went to Sunday sc...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:33 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2490
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Must be difficult being the only one "keeping it real" in a landscape littered with posers.PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:56 pmAnd it was an identity trip for all the green anarchists I hung out with. Almost as much of an identity trip as vegans today.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 916
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2490
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Does this exist or no? Is this a viable option, as both a lifestyle and a system of society? Yes, it does exist. Green Anarchism takes a number of different forms. If you go to this site and type "green" in the search box, you will get over 250 pages of articles. https://theanarchistlibra...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: A geometric analogy for understanding emptiness. Is it valid?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 333
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:06 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
- Replies: 202
- Views: 7703
Re: Politics in dharma center - article
But by your reasoning regarding everything being political, likewise I can say that everything, cola of not, is in one way or another already related to sweetness. That only needs to be realized. Everything can be considered in terms of its sugar content or lack of. The only difference is that your...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:47 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
- Replies: 202
- Views: 7703
Re: Politics in dharma center - article
But if your position is that the sangha is already a political entity, then either there’s nothing more that a sangha needs to do, or, a sangha needs some self-inspection to see specifically how it exists politically. I call that “sanghas focusing on getting more political”. So, for you, recognisin...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
- Replies: 202
- Views: 7703
Re: Politics in dharma center - article
I was just explaining the words in Tibetan. True Reality and Ultimate Reality are just my translations of ཡང་དག་པའི་གནས་ལུགས་ from the dictionary definition I provided. The technical translation would be: The authentic mode of abiding [of phenomena]. And what is the authentic mode of abiding [of ph...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
- Replies: 202
- Views: 7703
Re: Politics in dharma center - article
And if that’s the case, then instead of Buddhist sanghas needing to focus on becoming more political... Who said this? Not me! So, it is another (the fourth) straw man. I said Sangha are political, whether they believe they are, or not. Whether they like it, or not. Who said that Dharma should not ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
- Replies: 202
- Views: 7703
Re: Politics in dharma center - article
We have to learn to deal effectively with our own afflictions to contribute to alleviating the suffering of others, at least sometimes. Especially if we are Mahayana practitioners. Sometimes playing it safe is the least ethical choice. It’s all relative. In Mahamudra, this is known as the error of ...