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- Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:13 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Are we on the right track in learning Buddha
- Replies: 124
- Views: 24886
Re: Are we on the right track in learning Buddha
One Teaching There was once a young monk who studied assiduously every day, but he could not learn all of the scriptures and precepts. So he became distressed. He couldn‘t eat or sleep, and he grew weak and thin. Finally, he approached the Buddha. „Lord, please take back my robe. There are many tea...
- Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:45 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Leaving Facebook - should I?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3834
Re: Leaving Facebook - should I?
Isn't it always deisre that keeps one in the circle and takes one face after the other to get satisfaction. I used it two weeks, after that I was kicked out. To less personal informations, so not useful for the big database. "You can send a copy of your ID-card..." May the data's never be ...
- Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:31 am
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Different colors
- Replies: 56
- Views: 14025
Re: Different colors
Very cold here, very cool
mind it! mind it!
mind it! mind it!
- Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:29 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Help with the name "Lepra King"
- Replies: 0
- Views: 713
Help with the name "Lepra King"
Dear friends, there is the famous Jayavarman VII which was told as a reincarnation of (Avaloketeshva/Chenresi) in the Khmer Empire. Sometimes he is also told as the "Lepra King" a Bodhisattva that leads to big "destroying" to let the life goes on in a new way. (don't take it word...
- Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:55 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: No Self, No Problem
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1967
Re: No Self, No Problem
Neither I had talk of TMingyur, it is the weapon to free others, the way to release one self without hurting neither one self nor others. It is a selfless weapon which heals and just cuts of the ego when it is lifted for a strike. It cost a lot of self-ego and that is why it cutes also the own self ...
- Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:48 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: No Self, No Problem
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1967
Re: No Self, No Problem
Sometimes we can not develop the secret weapon, or sometimes others are not attracted by a weapon that is not seen. I guess that is the reason why simply weapons are so much effective than secret weapons. Recognition and acknowledgment seek for different as to win the whole battle. Is there a self t...
- Sat Jan 22, 2011 3:33 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Loving Kindness
- Replies: 1
- Views: 889
Re: Loving Kindness
No Boundaries to Loving Kindness T here is nothing more glorious than peace. When we stabilize our posture and calm our mind, we can realize peace within ourselves. Then we can radiate loving kindness to those around us - our family, our community, our nation, and the whole world. We can meditate l...
- Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:01 pm
- Forum: Dharma Stories
- Topic: Warrior of the Light & Paulo Coelho
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3690
Warrior of the Light & Paulo Coelho
Dear friends,
I thought it might be useful for somebody to get some "Boddhisatva" inspiration in other words.
The manual Warrior of the Light from Paulo Coelho
_/\_
with loving kindness
I thought it might be useful for somebody to get some "Boddhisatva" inspiration in other words.
The manual Warrior of the Light from Paulo Coelho
_/\_
with loving kindness
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:41 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: DHAMMAYIETRA 2011 - Join or Support
- Replies: 0
- Views: 935
DHAMMAYIETRA 2011 - Join or Support
Dear Friends, I am very happy to be able to introduce you the 21th Dhammayietra in Cambodia not only in memorial of Preah Maha Ghosananda. Attached you find detail informations about it. Join to walk for peace in yourself and to share it! I am thinking about to walk from Phnom Phen to join it. In an...
- Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:55 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why teaching hope?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6258
Re: Why teaching hope?
Dear friends, when it is like that, that hope is not taught, not taught to grasp, not praised by enlighten beings, please let me ask one more time, why is hope not taught, not taught to grasp on, not praised by enlighten beings? It seems, Hanzze, that you are overlooking or ignoring some of the pos...
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:40 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why teaching hope?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6258
Re: Why teaching hope?
Dear Tsongkhapafan, it might be that somebody is grasping on hope, but is he really on the way? It might be that somebody is grasping on future but will he come to the present? It might be that some are using an aim to send some on the run, but where will they go? It might be that some use hope to k...
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:56 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why teaching hope?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6258
Re: Why teaching hope?
Dear friends,
when it is like that, that hope is not taught, not taught to grasp, not praised by enlighten beings, please let me ask one more time,
why is hope not taught, not taught to grasp on, not praised by enlighten beings?
when it is like that, that hope is not taught, not taught to grasp, not praised by enlighten beings, please let me ask one more time,
why is hope not taught, not taught to grasp on, not praised by enlighten beings?
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:41 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why teaching hope?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6258
Re: Why teaching hope?
Dear mr. gordo, _/\_ thanks for coming up with your avatar. Trungpa Rinpoche (from Illusion's Game): Creating this kind of hope is one of the most prominent features of spiritual materialism.…There are so many promises involved. So much hope is planted in your heart. This is playing on your weakness...
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:20 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why teaching hope?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6258
Re: Why teaching hope?
:rolling: Could it be that hope and fear has seriousness as side effect? :rolling: Thanks Geoff for sharing me a little of the life Trungpa Rinpoche. First to read his words made me hoping and than reading he died brought me hoplessness. :rolling: Is alcohol a manifestation of fear? :rolling: Dear H...
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 4:58 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why teaching hope?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6258
Re: Why teaching hope?
Dear Friends, you brought up a lot of samples, and those are some which I had heard before, which I had read before and the reason why I had asked here. So let me ask one more time in the same way. Did any enlightenment being ever taught hope, ever taught the grasping on hope, ever taught to praisin...
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:51 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why teaching hope?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6258
Why teaching hope?
Dear Friends, I had seen and read (wrote*) that many followers of the great vehicle are teaching hope, grasping on hope, praising hope. I don't know a little about Sutras, so I like to ask you why is there teaching, grasping and praising of hope? Is there any Buddha Dhrama that is teaching hope? Is ...
- Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:38 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: How to deal with cockroaches ethically in the winter?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7056
Re: How to deal with cockroaches ethically in the winter?
My partner got a camera donated so here are two of our currently 4 pets *smile*
Amazing beings, but if you look at there shields and horns there must be a lot of fear.
_/\_
with loving kindness
Amazing beings, but if you look at there shields and horns there must be a lot of fear.
_/\_
with loving kindness
- Sun Dec 19, 2010 7:07 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: How to deal with cockroaches ethically in the winter?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7056
Re: How to deal with cockroaches ethically in the winter?
Hi Luke, we always have 5 to 7 big one in our kitchen. They are only up from 10 pm till morning. Those are quite amazing animals, did you ever observe them? Just to get no zoo, it is good to close the gully and ways into the waste water pipes. Putting something on the gully at night. They also do no...
- Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:21 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Historical Aspects of Vajrayana in Theravāda
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1711
Re: Historical Aspects of Vajrayana in Theravāda
Dear Ñāṇa, it may sound arrogant, but my belly (heart) never had lied in my life. Normally I do never search for, if it is right or wrong, so I just walk on and 3 days ago I started to translate the book of Buddhadasa describing traditional Thai / Cambodian buddhist paintings. Please see this: 2. MI...
- Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:52 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Historical Aspects of Vajrayana in Theravāda
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1711
Historical Aspects of Vajrayana in Theravāda
Dear Friends, In most south east Asian counties a kind of vajrayana was present, before Theravada was established. Like the rivers are flowing down the himalaya. Theravada protects the simple source of the teachings. From my own experiences it is useful to get also in touch with those teachings as t...