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- 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...
- 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...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263312
- 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'...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:10 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
- Replies: 202
- Views: 8149
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:50 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263312
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&...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:42 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263312
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263312
- 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...
- 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.
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
Kim
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
Kim
- 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, ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...