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by ThreeVows
Wed Oct 25, 2023 2:09 am
Forum: Creative Writing
Topic: Prasang
Replies: 0
Views: 280

Prasang

I have a friend, her name is
Many

But one name
is noteworthy.

Prasangika, prasangika

She takes you to
the end
and
pushes you off.

Flying you go flying
by ThreeVows
Tue Oct 24, 2023 3:32 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self
Replies: 171
Views: 6420

Re: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self

If one is in a state of clarity and prajña, there won’t be a struggle. Then one has understood properly, and then one doesn't really need to engage with the dialectics in the first place. I was referring to prior to proper discernment of the essence. If one has not realized the path of seeing, then...
by ThreeVows
Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:22 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self
Replies: 171
Views: 6420

Re: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self

Even if it were possible for me to become enlightened and fully understand the doctrine of no-self, I would still suffer the effects of negative thoughts and emotions. Poison is poison. It affects the whole system. Define “negative thoughts and emotions”. Ultimately, thoughts and emotions are neutr...
by ThreeVows
Thu Oct 19, 2023 2:42 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self
Replies: 171
Views: 6420

Re: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self

If one is in a state of clarity and prajña, there won’t be a struggle. Then one has understood properly, and then one doesn't really need to engage with the dialectics in the first place. I was referring to prior to proper discernment of the essence. If one has not realized the path of seeing, then...
by ThreeVows
Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:26 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self
Replies: 171
Views: 6420

Re: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self

Agree. But this may be a difference between Madhyamaka practice with regard to emptiness and Theravada practice with regard to no-self. My personal sense, basically, is that essentially put you could say that Nagarjuna's second turning work could be considered to essentially be a commentary on Righ...
by ThreeVows
Mon Oct 16, 2023 2:31 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self
Replies: 171
Views: 6420

Re: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self

"To understand not-self, you have to meditate. If you only intellectualize, your head will explode." ~Ajahn Chah: A Still Forest Pool. My all time favorite quote regarding non-self. :lol: Isn't the point to make your head figuratively explode? Isn't the teaching having its intended effect...
by ThreeVows
Wed Oct 11, 2023 2:12 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Classical examples for "svabhava" as a "epistemological defect"
Replies: 5
Views: 595

Re: Classical examples for "svabhava" as a "epistemological defect"

This isn't a scholarly answer, which is perhaps what you're looking for, but I think it wouldn't be particularly unreasonable to say that basically the entire point of madhyamaka is to overturn a view (not simply intellectually, but in terms of actual realization/discernment) of svabhava in all dhar...
by ThreeVows
Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:00 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Buddha Nature is a way to attract people
Replies: 84
Views: 9160

Re: Buddha Nature is a way to attract people

Just thought to add this to the thread, from Longchenpa: Those who have a mistaken view regarding the buddha nature assume an arrogant demeanor. Their faces are covered with the golden net of wrong opinions, and they turn their backs on the sūtras of definitive meaning and the view of the Secret Man...
by ThreeVows
Tue Oct 03, 2023 11:54 am
Forum: Creative Writing
Topic: Pieces
Replies: 0
Views: 390

Pieces

We are all broken people.

“The heart of Wisdom is great Compassion”, says the 16th Karmapa.

Kintsugi cups.
by ThreeVows
Thu Sep 28, 2023 4:36 pm
Forum: Creative Writing
Topic: The Curse
Replies: 0
Views: 340

The Curse

He came in
Echoes
Echoes
Echoes
Sex hurt, showers hurt.
In a past life, cursing another, a spitting curse, an eternal curse.
Now it hurts.
How long until the curse is renounced?
by ThreeVows
Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:48 pm
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Prayer / Dedication of Merit for Financial Difficulties
Replies: 4
Views: 567

Re: Prayer / Dedication of Merit for Financial Difficulties

All your karma is in « me my my ». When you hold onto bodicitta you leave me my, my, you leave karma and many things become possible. At a certain point I think it is considered that any focus other than bodhicitta is basically a deviation, a short-sighted and suboptimal one. Which isn't to say one...
by ThreeVows
Mon Sep 25, 2023 3:36 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Permissibility of manga with sexual content for a Buddhist
Replies: 38
Views: 2227

Re: Permissibility of manga with sexual content for a Buddhist

Ok thank you for the clarification. So I imagine I wouldn’t be committing a wrong if there’s no prohibition but does this mean if I view it will I be in a “bad state” (i don’t know how to describe it) where I’ll be in the rebirth cycle? Generally speaking, at a certain point it is understood that i...
by ThreeVows
Mon Sep 25, 2023 2:57 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Permissibility of manga with sexual content for a Buddhist
Replies: 38
Views: 2227

Re: Permissibility of manga with sexual content for a Buddhist

Hi I’m new to Buddhism and enjoy manga. My one problem is a lot of manga has sexual content called “fan service” which is usually like scenes and character designs that aren’t full pornographic just sexual. My question is, is it ok to read these mangas for their story even though they can contain t...
by ThreeVows
Thu Sep 21, 2023 5:06 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.
Replies: 65
Views: 3374

Re: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.

Johnny Dangerous wrote: Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:59 pm My personal bias is that our culture puts way too much emphasis on solving complex problems by taking a pill.
I agree with this very strongly. It's a significant issue.
by ThreeVows
Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:43 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.
Replies: 65
Views: 3374

Re: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.

>Three Vows is not advocating stronger drugs, but talking about very specific uses of specific substances under very controlled >circumstances, usually in an environment where therapy is taking place. > I’m skeptical of them, but it’s an emerging body of science, not someone simply advocating for m...
by ThreeVows
Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:37 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.
Replies: 65
Views: 3374

Re: Pointing out instructions

Well, as someone who works in the center of our current addiction and mental health crisis, I remain skeptical that these substances will be as useful as people think they will be. Again, from my perspective it’s the therapy and lowered inhibitions probably doing the work. I also think that there i...
by ThreeVows
Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:18 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.
Replies: 65
Views: 3374

Re: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.

I might agree with both. Because I dont know the answer (or answers) So, the solution for this is stronger drugs? We should address the origin... dont we? A big change is needed in mental health... Generally we should use all tools available to us that are beneficial, and there are multiple layers....
by ThreeVows
Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:14 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.
Replies: 65
Views: 3374

Re: Pointing out instructions

All the studies I’ve seen so far have been small sample sizes with a prevalence of confounding variables, particularly given that the entire approach involves a layer of therapy in addition to the substance. I'm well aware that currently the data is limited, but that doesn't change anything that I ...
by ThreeVows
Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.
Replies: 65
Views: 3374

Re: Western pysch, trauma and MDMA, etc.

Why so many mental issues nowadays? it's getting worse and worse and suicide rates growing, etc...soon it will be the big epidemic of XXI IMO a big part of it is a pervasive materialist, nihilist viewpoint which is largely unexamined. Generally speaking many people in our world in their day-to-day ...

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