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- Tue Jan 16, 2018 8:45 am
- Forum: Australia/NZ
- Topic: Young Dharma Retreat near Melbourne
- Replies: 8
- Views: 321
Re: Young Dharma Retreat near Melbourne
I don't have any connection with the group, but there are online articles like this one: https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/19/buddhist-sexual-abuse-triratna-dennis-lingwood#ampshare=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/19/buddhist-sexual-abuse-triratna-dennis-...
- Tue Jan 16, 2018 4:56 am
- Forum: Australia/NZ
- Topic: Young Dharma Retreat near Melbourne
- Replies: 8
- Views: 321
Re: Young Dharma Retreat near Melbourne
I'd suggest doing some at background checks on the group sponsoring this retreat before getting involved. I know it's a Triratna group but I've never had anything to do with them. I also know there were problems with the founder as described here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triratna_Buddhist_Comm...
- Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:59 am
- Forum: Australia/NZ
- Topic: Young Dharma Retreat near Melbourne
- Replies: 8
- Views: 321
Young Dharma Retreat near Melbourne
http://melbournebuddhistcentre.org.au/event/young-dharma-retreat/ Under 35ish + Interested in Buddhism? Would you like to come on a 3-day Buddhist retreat this March? Then see below. It's gonna be great. Led by 2 very wise and humble practitioners. Tix selling fast so book ASAP. FOR BOOKINGS, GO TO...
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:54 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Where are 1% of Americans?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1180
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:32 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: -ise vs -ize
- Replies: 37
- Views: 810
Re: -ise vs -ize
For all the grammar-Nasis :tongue: An explanation - https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-recognize-and-internalize-the-us-suffix-ize-19828 A competing explanation - https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/blog/article/79/ Lots of style guides - http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/article/art20...
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:01 pm
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 103
- Views: 15557
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 5:58 am
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: Will Oprah Run for President?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1247
Re: Will Oprah Run for President?
If Oprah, then who next?
FB to the rescue -
Kim
FB to the rescue -

Kim
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:00 am
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: UK football invest in Tibet water
- Replies: 4
- Views: 196
UK football invest in Tibet water
Liverpool has scored an own goal -- signing a sponsorship deal with Chinese company Tibet Water, who use China’s brutal military occupation in Tibet to bottle and sell Tibetan resources. Will you tell Liverpool FC’s directors to stop supporting human rights abuses and end this deal? The exploding p...
- Sun Jan 07, 2018 11:07 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: "Objectivity" and objective moral values
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1864
Re: "Objectivity" and objective moral values
There's a thread on this on the other wheel, from three years ago, if you're interested - https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22563

Kim
- Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:03 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Fo Guang Shan and Triratna centres are nearby
- Replies: 17
- Views: 641
Re: Fo Guang Shan and Triratna centres are nearby
The lineage is originally fairly old by the current sects within the Theravada have changed greatly in the last century or two so that someone from 300-400 years ago probably would be very confused by many practices. This is true of all schools, all lineages - all human social endeavours, in fact -...
- Tue Jan 02, 2018 6:33 am
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: "Objectivity" and objective moral values
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1864
Re: "Objectivity" and objective moral values
Apologies for back-tracking here but you have all been talking while I was away. My best way out of the philosophical swamp was to propose that ethical axioms, like Euclid's geometrical axioms, were necessary. A secure edifice could be constructed on a few axioms, and all would be well. That is exac...
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:38 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: "Objectivity" and objective moral values
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1864
Re: "Objectivity" and objective moral values
... I find myself veering closer to "conservatism", if only in the form of Burkean conservatism . At least as JMG expressed it there, I find it perfectly compatible with Buddhism -- "rights" are completely based on convention and not on any set of "infallible" truths. On the other hand, conventions...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:05 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: yoga
- Replies: 8
- Views: 475
Re: yoga
It is interesting how many layers of misconceptions can pile up on another. And if people peel one away they think they have the truth. ... I remember some time ago I read about a book called 'The Yoga Body' where a guy claims that the posture heavy "Yoga" was a reaction of the physical culture tra...
- Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:15 pm
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: Images in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 259
Re: Images in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia
The same gallery is holding a big international show alongside its normal exhibition. One of its major pieces - and certainly one of its biggest - is this one. ngv-reclining-buddha.jpg It's huge. You can see it filling the courtyard (how they got it in is beyond me) and in relation to the people. Th...
- Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:18 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: Images in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 259
Re: Images in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia
In the same city, in the main art gallery - the NGV - there's a very beautiful Kamakura-period Dainishi Nyorai image displayed traditionally between two mandalas. While I was there, a Japanese family came and sat in front of it as though to pay their respects to it, which is what I felt like doing, ...
- Fri Dec 29, 2017 6:50 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: Images in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 259
Images in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia
I lived in Melbourne for many years before moving to a sunnier place :smile: and I still visit fairly often. I was going to start a thread with photos from a recent trip but have just come across this site - https://21tarasthangka.org/ - and its descriptions and pictures of an enormous Tara Thankgka...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:58 am
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Dealing with Flaws and Lapses
- Replies: 14
- Views: 542
Re: Dealing with Flaws and Lapses
My general approach is to acknowledge my shortcomings and then to keep on practicing, as I can’t see anything else that could be done. Absolutely right. :thumbsup: I don't know that I "grapple" with the same issues - it sounds a bit too serious for me :tongue: - but I do encounter them often enough...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:06 am
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: Yetis are real, but are Himalayan brown bears
- Replies: 17
- Views: 537
Re: Yetis are real, but are Himalayan brown bears
Indeed - and well found.

If I even read that at the time, I had forgotten it.

Kim
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:45 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: Yetis are real, but are Himalayan brown bears
- Replies: 17
- Views: 537
Yetis are real, but are Himalayan brown bears
Yetis are real, they just also happen to be Himalayan brown bears It would be easy to dismiss the myth of the yeti as just that: a myth. There's no conclusive evidence that a giant, ape-like creature lives in the Himalayas (or anywhere else, for that matter). But the beauty of science is that we do...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 8:21 am
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Pureland in Thailand
- Replies: 11
- Views: 521
Re: Pureland in Thailand
Welcome back :hi: I'm a bit surprised you found a Pure Land temple as such but not at all surprised that you have seen a blurred boundary between Theravada and Mahayana. If you look around, you will also see Hindu deities in Theravada temples, and of course the ubiquitous 'spirit houses' are none of...