Robot Buddhist Priests in Japan

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Pero
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Robot Buddhist Priests in Japan

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So, how long till robots replace teachers too?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... -streaming

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Its worse than people who pay their servants to do their prostrations for them
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Pero wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:43 am So, how long till robots replace teachers too?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... -streaming

Where's the bodhicitta? If there is no bodhicitta, how on earth are the dead even going to be liberated? Saying stuff won't help. There must at least be bodhicitta, even if one doesn't know any mantras or sutras. This is bad!
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Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:23 am Its worse than people who pay their servants to do their prostrations for them
Are you being serious? That's an actual thing??!!!??
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Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:23 am Its worse than people who pay their servants to do their prostrations for them
Is that a joke, or is that a real thing?
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climb-up wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:13 am
Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:23 am Its worse than people who pay their servants to do their prostrations for them
Is that a joke, or is that a real thing?
I know of at least one person who has done it
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Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:18 am
climb-up wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:13 am
Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:23 am Its worse than people who pay their servants to do their prostrations for them
Is that a joke, or is that a real thing?
I know of at least one person who has done it
Wow!
I wonder how this person framed that in their mind that it made any kind of sense at all.

I actually find that far weirder than this robot.
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Tenma wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:24 am
Pero wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:43 am So, how long till robots replace teachers too?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... -streaming

Where's the bodhicitta? If there is no bodhicitta, how on earth are the dead even going to be liberated? Saying stuff won't help. There must at least be bodhicitta, even if one doesn't know any mantras or sutras. This is bad!
What's next? Empowerment,direct introduction and pointing out using robots? :rolleye:
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What's next? Empowerment,direct introduction and pointing out using robots? :rolleye:
Well alot of people on this forum advocate for empowerment over the computer so...
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Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:33 am
What's next? Empowerment,direct introduction and pointing out using robots? :rolleye:
Well alot of people on this forum advocate for empowerment over the computer so...
I personally think it is plausible if done by masters(already done by Dalai Lama,ChNNR, Garchen Rinpoche etc) and watched real-time,but an insentient robot on the other hand...... :shrug:
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liuzg150181 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:54 am
Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:33 am
What's next? Empowerment,direct introduction and pointing out using robots? :rolleye:
Well alot of people on this forum advocate for empowerment over the computer so...
I personally think it is plausible if done by masters(already done by Dalai Lama,ChNNR, Garchen Rinpoche etc) and watched real-time,but an insentient robot on the other hand...... :shrug:
No bodhicitta, then the empowerment is useless.
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Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:33 am
What's next? Empowerment,direct introduction and pointing out using robots? :rolleye:
Well alot of people on this forum advocate for empowerment over the computer so...
That's not even close to this.
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What's next? Empowerment,direct introduction and pointing out using robots?
The Robot Buddha, from the film Doomsday Book (Inryu myeongmang bogoseo) or Creation of Heaven (Chunsangui Pijomul)
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liuzg150181 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:54 am
Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:33 am
What's next? Empowerment,direct introduction and pointing out using robots? :rolleye:
Well alot of people on this forum advocate for empowerment over the computer so...
I personally think it is plausible if done by masters(already done by Dalai Lama,ChNNR, Garchen Rinpoche etc) and watched real-time,but an insentient robot on the other hand...... :shrug:
What about if they trained a monkey to do the service? Monkeys are sentient beings, so...
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Grigoris wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:19 pm What about if they trained a monkey to do the service? Monkeys are sentient beings, so...
What if he turns out like the monkey in Kafka's "A Letter to an Academy?"
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Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:33 am
What's next? Empowerment,direct introduction and pointing out using robots? :rolleye:
Well alot of people on this forum advocate for empowerment over the computer so...
Not from computers...
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This is like a person with back pains buying a robot and having the robot do the therapy. What's the point?
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Grigoris wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:19 pm
liuzg150181 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:54 am
Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:33 am
Well alot of people on this forum advocate for empowerment over the computer so...
I personally think it is plausible if done by masters(already done by Dalai Lama,ChNNR, Garchen Rinpoche etc) and watched real-time,but an insentient robot on the other hand...... :shrug:
What about if they trained a monkey to do the service? Monkeys are sentient beings, so...
Perhaps if the monkeys had bodhicitta or compassion, it might work no matter how bad it goes whether the monkey lama throws an apple instead of pouring water on people's heads, reciting mantras as screams that no one understands, etc.....
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Grigoris wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:19 pm
liuzg150181 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:54 am
Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:33 am
Well alot of people on this forum advocate for empowerment over the computer so...
I personally think it is plausible if done by masters(already done by Dalai Lama,ChNNR, Garchen Rinpoche etc) and watched real-time,but an insentient robot on the other hand...... :shrug:
What about if they trained a monkey to do the service? Monkeys are sentient beings, so...
:rolling: :rolleye: :jawdrop: :jumping:
Hard to visualize and follow the instructions when the wouldbe guru is a monkey. :tongue:
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liuzg150181 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 4:48 amHard to visualize and follow the instructions when the wouldbe guru is a monkey. :tongue:
Tell that to Wu Kong!
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