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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-...

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...

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...

Malcolm wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:30 pm

Locked up for being black, mostly.

Or poor, or both.

It happens here, too.


Kim

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...

If Oprah, then who next?
FB to the rescue -

Kim

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...

MiphamFan wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:57 pm

... I still think Pyrrhonism is the closest Hellenistic philosophy to Buddhism. ...

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

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 -...

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...

... 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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

Norwegian wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:52 pm

Dan74 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:50 pm

I recall our resident Yeti expert, Malcolm, saying a very similar thing quite some time ago, no?

viewtopic.php?f=40&t=15413&start=20#p259018

Indeed - and well found.


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


Kim

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...

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...