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by Grigoris
Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:32 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Music time
Replies: 5271
Views: 879475

Re: Music time

by Grigoris
Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2490

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

PadmaVonSamba wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:42 pmBut what does it have to do with Buddhism?
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.
by Grigoris
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...
by Grigoris
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...
by Grigoris
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
by Grigoris
Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2490

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

PadmaVonSamba wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:49 pmNot difficult at all. I was one of them too!
One of the key characteristics of a poser, is that they consider everybody else a poser. :rolling:
by Grigoris
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:33 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.

yagmort wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:16 amdon't equate yourself with 2.4 billion people. so far that's 3 vs your opinion
The Dunning-Kruger Effect comes to mind when I read statements like that.


I will now leave you with your delusion.
by Grigoris
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 ...
by Grigoris
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...
by Grigoris
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...
by Grigoris
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...
by Grigoris
Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:33 am
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2490

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

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.
Must be difficult being the only one "keeping it real" in a landscape littered with posers. :roll:
by Grigoris
Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:47 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.

yagmort wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:12 pmjust to note that i have talked to 2 eastern orthodox chirstians and they told me they have no idea of god as an entity.
Come to Greece, and I will introduce you to a few million Greek Orthodox Christians that believe that God is an entity.
by Grigoris
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...
by Grigoris
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:38 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: A geometric analogy for understanding emptiness. Is it valid?
Replies: 8
Views: 333

Re: A geometric analogy for understanding emptiness. Is it valid?

narhwal90 wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:35 pm I'd say as soon as there are ideas it is no longer emptiness.
Ideas are empty too. ;)
by Grigoris
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...
by Grigoris
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...
by Grigoris
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...
by Grigoris
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 ...
by Grigoris
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 ...

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