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by Kim O'Hara
Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:36 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8149

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

...I've been known to explain and defend Crit Race Theory to Republican relatives. It usually goes something like this: "Its just looking at how black people have gotten screwed over the years." "White people get screwed, too!" "That's true. But everyone gets screwed in dif...
by Kim O'Hara
Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:09 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: English translation collection of basic sutras that has had its language adapted for modern readers
Replies: 29
Views: 1150

Re: English translation collection of basic sutras that has had its language adapted for modern readers

... Not everyone was literate ... You could put that much more strongly: Hardly anyone was literate. That was true all round the world, right up until the nineteenth century. Literacy was generally limited to the clergy, the aristocracy and (where it existed) the merchant class. And books (manuscri...
by Kim O'Hara
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:41 am
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 849
Views: 263312

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

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by Kim O'Hara
Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:54 am
Forum: Ethical Conduct
Topic: Does the doctrine of karma blame victims for their own suffering?
Replies: 16
Views: 2227

Re: Does the doctrine of karma blame victims for their own suffering?

I recall a long discussion here which concluded (if I remember rightly) with general agreement that there is no such thing as "group" or "collective" karma. If that's the case, "the Jews" can't suffer karmic consequences (and nor can "the Palestinians"). That'...
by Kim O'Hara
Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8149

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

Totalizing politics makes it incoherent. If everything is political then politics loses meaning. Or personal experience changes its meaning. That is what Second Wave Feminism taught. It took issues like domestic violence and marital rape and placed them squarely (where they belong) within the struc...
by Kim O'Hara
Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:09 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8149

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

For those interested, Malcolm posted a response to the tricycle article on his FB page. In the comments, I also had a long argument with him about whether bodhisattva practitioners are required to “engage in politics.” https://www.facebook.com/share/Rbrgqiw1U72BCa8c/?mibextid=WC7FNe :thanks: but I ...
by Kim O'Hara
Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:10 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8149

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

Queequeg wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:19 am ...If everything is political then politics loses meaning. ...
:thumbsup:

I'm with you and PVS on this.
Words are tools and they are most useful if we keep them sharp.

:namaste:
Kim
by Kim O'Hara
Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:50 am
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 849
Views: 263312

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

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by Kim O'Hara
Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:08 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Kipling
Replies: 42
Views: 1657

Re: Kipling

It's a nice read. I forgot who said about Pallis - perhaps John Blofeld? - that the Tibetans called him "Mr Tradition" behind his back and found his attitude quite bizarre. That's interesting - and actually doesn't surprise me. The traditionalists do have a tendency to try to "teach&...
by Kim O'Hara
Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:42 am
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 849
Views: 263312

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

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by Kim O'Hara
Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:35 am
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: Looking to become a Buddhist, but I'm concerned about ideas of Heaven/Hell
Replies: 53
Views: 2408

Re: Looking to become a Buddhist, but I'm concerned about ideas of Heaven/Hell

Because I need to asses all the differences and concepts for myself before committing!! What is committing exactly, to you? Hm, I think finding what I think is true and then practicing it for life. :smile: Most of us have done that in our teens, after simply accepting what we were taught up until t...
by Kim O'Hara
Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:46 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8149

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

There are instances where ethics and politics have nothing do with each other except in some vague, indirect way. If someone needs help to change a tire on the side of the road, I will help them because I think it is the right thing to do - we ought be helpful to our fellows. There is no political ...
by Kim O'Hara
Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:05 pm
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 849
Views: 263312

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

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by Kim O'Hara
Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:39 am
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: The Spirit Level (book)
Replies: 0
Views: 188

The Spirit Level (book)

This isn't a book review but a Wikipedia article about a book which gives even more information about the book. I haven't read the book but it has been recommended to me and certainly looks good from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book) The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societi...
by Kim O'Hara
Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:25 am
Forum: Zen
Topic: Book: The Philosophy of No-Mind
Replies: 1
Views: 284

Re: Book: The Philosophy of No-Mind

Thanks for not posting a link to the pirated edition.
:thanks:

Anyone who wants to ask, "But why shouldn't we?" should read this recent thread about it before asking. https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?t=43530

:coffee:
Kim
by Kim O'Hara
Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:41 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8149

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

I'm not sure how far apart we are on all this. My argument in earlier posts has been that we should, as Buddhists, start with the individual and work outwards to the social and political. You seem to be saying that we must 'tame our mind' completely before considering the movement outwards. If so, ...
by Kim O'Hara
Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:55 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8149

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

One of the most basic things in Buddhism that makes it different from other religions is that the individual working with his or her own mind is at the religion's core. Many or most religions have equivalents of "do only virtuous acts, avoid non-virtuous acts" in their foundational belief...
by Kim O'Hara
Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:26 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8149

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

... Tricycle used to limit itself to translations of recognized works and commentaries by established teachers. Either that was not selling enough magazines, or, as I suspect, the editors have an agenda outside Buddhism. :smile: Surely "selling [more] magazines" is "an agenda outside...
by Kim O'Hara
Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:29 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8149

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

...In a representative democracy, presumably the ethics of the citizens are expressed in the laws and regulations through the political process, however that is constitutionally established. :rolleye: I'm sorry, but that's an incredibly idealised view of the situation. In the real world, the legal ...
by Kim O'Hara
Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:43 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Chenrezig Differences
Replies: 39
Views: 1587

Re: Chenrezig Differences

the Buddha taught four different types of "birth": womb-born, egg-born, moisture-born (maybe the lotus birth?) and spontaneous-born. My understanding is that moisture-born refers to very tiny creatures which suddenly appear in damp environments or shallow water (mosquitoes) but whose caus...

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