Dharma Wheel

buddhism is just like any other religion. Or, “people are people” as they say. I disagree with the former statement. The latter seems about right. I agree with the former statement because institutional Buddhism IS like any other religion with a need to support itself, its vinaya with resources and...

Now I WANT TO DO PARKOUR!!!

The amount of money that tattoo cost could have fed a hundred monks for a year Depends on what country you live in... 45 hrs of tattooing cost me the equivalent of about 200USD. I suspect maybe this is an error and you meant 4-5 hrs... unless you got one helluva deal. I had a former thangka artist ...

Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 7:03 am The amount of money that tattoo cost could have fed a hundred monks for a year

Depends on what country you live in... 45 hrs of tattooing cost me the equivalent of about 200USD.

Faith as it said in Christianity results in heaven but also the virtues and their results as spoken in the dharma. Its a religion designed to avoid the hells so on that merit alone I think it has its own relative value. Wrong View whether it be Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, voodoo etc produces wrong...

Grigoris wrote: ↑Wed May 16, 2018 3:09 pm

amanitamusc wrote: ↑Tue May 15, 2018 4:48 amCan we see?

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Gorgeous. I love this.

Ogyen Tattoos.jpg Nothing secret here, but it is my core practice (in case I have an accident and get amnesia). 7 line prayer, 100 syllable vajrasattva mantra, song of vajra and some symbolized items in my red seals - one is a stylized yabyum to NOT depict actual union, which is inappropriate, but ...

Glancing at the article, I think it’s a neologism of recent invention. I think Madhyamika is indeed inherently dialectical but I don’t think ‘monistic’ is a good descriptor. I don’t think that Wikipedia article is worth the electrons it’s printed on. Wikipedia articles can be changed by any contrib...

Do you gentlefolk, chicas, and assorted critters mind if I take a crack at this poetry thing? No need to respond—here goes: Pick at You Fat, oval, Pokemon face Brown Pikachu complete with cheeks You and your stupid capris. One of eight daughters, one of two Why did I pay for what was never done By ...

Just a note; sorry for the depressing poems. I'm just writing to vent; and I hope someone out there can relate to the content. Otherwise I am OK. Just dealing with things as they come nowdays.. I'm a poetry geek. I read a lot because it opens a channel in which I can process things that aren't made...

so, in both cases, do we loose our identity? Yes. Identity is a construct that arises out of the aggregates and the conditioning in the experience of living life that any individual has. Many parts of it change within the course of a lifetime, others remain more fixed (like the hardwiring of the ph...

Interesting article in today's NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/health/dna-privacy-golden-state-killer-genealogy.html I thought the police did a brilliant job. DNA evidence can exonerate people as well as convict them. Personally, I think the good outweighs the risks. And in the article it se...

If you've attended a webcast with explanation and then transmission you should be good. Did you not receive one of those?

It's really important to find a place where you feel at home. Sometimes our ancestry contributes, and sometimes I wonder how much past lives help. I've also wondered this because I've made the world my home... I've yet to find a specific place that clicks like some people talk about finding their m...

It's really important to find a place where you feel at home. Sometimes our ancestry contributes, and sometimes I wonder how much past lives help. I've also wondered this because I've made the world my home... I've yet to find a specific place that clicks like some people talk about finding their m...

In reality of course, all of our distant ancestors were black. Shakyamuni broke off some wicked beats. Omniscient and all. I haven't done the testing myself, but a family member has, so based on what I was told, our Indian family is shockingly NOT "the Indian we thought it was," but a mix...

The answer to the question in the OP is given in the first two verses of the Dharmapada. Verse 1. Suffering Follows The Evil-Doer Mind precedes all knowables, mind's their chief, mind-made are they. If with a corrupted mind one should either speak or act dukkha follows caused by that, as does the w...

Quotes compiled from collective karma thread But dependent origination, when reduced to its essential components, simply means: where there is affliction, there is a cause for action; where there is action there is a cause for suffering; and where there is suffering, there is a condition for further...

What costs 500 USD? The Gelong Lodrö Sangpo version (4 volumes) costs 150 USD in total. The paperback of Pruden's version is 50 x 4 = 200 USD, and the hardcover of that one is out of stock so it's an expensive third-party store price. Get either the Gelong Lodrö Sangpo version, or the paperback of ...

Vasana asked about the Abhidharmakosha earlier, and I posted this - it includes Gelong Lodrö Sangpo's version (which is also the version I own, it's nice): 1. 4 volume set, based on Poussin's French translation, updated/annotated English translation by Gelong Lodrö Sangpo. This is also the latest p...