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- Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:05 pm
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263373
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:26 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: India vs Pakistan
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1637
Re: India vs Pakistan
Relax. The Donald probly owns a hotel in each of those cities. He won't put them at risk. Will he?
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:06 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: India vs Pakistan
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1637
Re: India vs Pakistan
Can you imagine what would happen if a Pakistani terrorist group attacked the US congress? After the initial outrage maybe something similar would happen. Someone would surely point out that that Pakistanis have had nuclear technology for quite some time, Then someone else might point out that ever...
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:46 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: sentient beings-enlightenment-evolution
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3250
Re: sentient beings-enlightenment-evolution
Dear sisters and brothers, If all sentient beings have potential to become a buddha, can we say that the most simple forms of life will evolve till one were they can manifest enlightenment ? If yes, does it not implies a beginning to consciousness evolution ? Nope, you missed a possibility. What if...
- Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:55 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: India vs Pakistan
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1637
India vs Pakistan
Lovely news to start the day, we have two nuclear-armed countries shooting down each other's jets and firing artillery across the border. This has me wondering just how small a mistake could cause a nuclear war with tensions this high. Maybe simple miscommunication would do it. Or some small faulty ...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:37 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: A Question Concerning 'Self'
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3743
Re: A Question Concerning 'Self'
I probably need to stop distracting myself with A Question of 'Self'. It's possibly just 'too metaphysical' to dwell on - and possibly serves no useful purpose. I think it does serve a useful purpose. Grasping the way emptiness applies to the self seems to me the very centre of the path to enlighte...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:32 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Dedicating Merit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1338
Re: Dedicating Merit
I think I'd settle for the classic "May I be well, may I be happy, may I be free from suffering". Just to avoid any chance of narcissism creeping in.
Anyhoo it's all part of standard metta bhavana practice IIRC, and widely practiced under that and other names.
Anyhoo it's all part of standard metta bhavana practice IIRC, and widely practiced under that and other names.
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:24 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The nature of European monarchies
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6712
Re: The nature of European monarchies
Perhaps also check the forum rules on right speech while you're at it. I'm not sure the repeated use of "English inbreds" is particularly becoming of a moderator. Yes, you are quite right. I should have said: Inbred English thieving leeches. That would be more apt. If you tell me which pa...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:28 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Diana Mukpo’s potent letter re: Shambhala
- Replies: 167
- Views: 26516
Re: Diana Mukpo’s potent letter re: Shambhala
What a shit fest! It's rather similar to what happens when the cargo cable snaps on a helicopter flying over the Super Bowl, and the cargo of sixteen overloaded Porta Potties carpet bombs the marching band below. Why did this all happen? Cast your mind back to when the Buddha was dying. "Who w...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:14 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The nature of European monarchies
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6712
Re: The nature of European monarchies
[/quote]Their ancestors sent their vassals to commit genocide on at least two continents and a number of sub-continents and they raked in the gains. Remember when I posted the photo earlier of the queen and asked people if they knew where she got the gold piano from? Nobody offered an answer so I wi...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:29 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The nature of European monarchies
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6712
Re: The nature of European monarchies
Well let's look at some examples. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates got their money by inventing the personal computer. Sure, but they don't build the computers by working in Third World sweatshops do they? Some other sucker does that. So after ripping the suckers off blind, if Steve and Bill donate someth...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:13 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: A Question Concerning 'Self'
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3743
Re: A Question Concerning 'Self'
It's interesting that Shantideva consistently avoids the term "illusion", using instead "illusion-like". Calling something an illusion implies that the thing we think we are seeing does not exist at all, which is the nihilist error. The self is a classic example. Clearly there is...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:54 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The nature of European monarchies
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6712
Re: The nature of European monarchies
[/quote]That's nice, but you also have to ask yourself where they get their money from in the first place. ;) [/quote] Well let's look at some examples. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates got their money by inventing the personal computer. Warren Buffet made his fortune by expert investment. The Trump fortun...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:22 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Livable Alien Planet Finally Discovered
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4850
Re: Livable Alien Planet Finally Discovered
I was just thinking (always dangerous) about the Project Orion nuclear pulse type of propulsion. If you build the thing in orbit, and successfully get it farting small nukes - wouldn't that EMP half the planet? Could any satellites survive the radiation? Would you want to be in a jet at 35,000 feet ...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:54 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Becoming a moderator?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4475
Re: Becoming a moderator?
Wow my eyesight is really going to the dogs,. It's so bad that, to me, your white robe looks like a grey sweater with blue stripes. Well. I shouldn't be trusting appearances anyways.
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:39 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Livable Alien Planet Finally Discovered
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4850
Re: Livable Alien Planet Finally Discovered
‘Only 20 light years’. The famous little probe that passed out of the Solar System after having travelled for 30 years or something - point it towards that planet, and it will take hundreds of millions of years to get there. A light year is an astronomical distance. We’re never going to get there i...
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:47 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What is a Duck?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 12979
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:43 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Taking the Dharma to ... Minecraft? Rly?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3719
Re: Taking the Dharma to ... Minecraft? Rly?
Hmm. Nobody ever answered any of my questions about how to set up a stupa. Curious.
- Sat Feb 24, 2018 4:12 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Dharma Wheel Heavy Weights
- Replies: 73
- Views: 14582
Re: Dharma Wheel Heavy Weights
That's nothing. I lift a whole planet every time I stand up. It's all about your frame of reference you see.
- Fri Feb 23, 2018 12:59 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Taking the Dharma to ... Minecraft? Rly?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3719
Re: Taking the Dharma to ... Minecraft? Rly?
I posted the screenshots you asked for....