I apologized for hurting people's feelings without need, that was as far as it went.plwk wrote:So malcolm, as gendun suggested earlier: that you accepted the authenticity of Aro and apologised?
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- Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:30 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Protestant Buddhism in Asia and the West
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11607
Re: Protestant Buddhism in Asia and the West
- Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:19 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Protestant Buddhism in Asia and the West
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11607
Re: Protestant Buddhism in Asia and the West
Vajracakra was set up by Malcolm and a group of students of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu including Dechen Norbu who broke away from Dharma Wheel over the issue of whether it was neccessary to be a Buddhist in order to practice Dzogchen. Malcolm and others thought not, and so Vajracakra.com was born. No, V...
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:19 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8458
Re: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
I have patiently pointed out the faults in the reasoning belonging to both you and Malcolm. No, actually, all you did was proffer a non-standard interpretation of a couple of passages in the Nikayas trying to prove that Buddha's experience of Nirvana was in line with Vedantic speculations about bra...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:22 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8458
Re: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
Yes, heavily edited records.Ñāṇa wrote: (i) No one knows what the Buddha said. All we have are different collections of records that are claimed to represent what the Buddha said.
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:20 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8458
Re: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
You are not objective, unless of course you are claiming to be an awakened person.suttametta wrote:It's purely an objective matter.
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 4:27 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8458
Re: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
But I do think that people who make the kinds of remarks you, suttametta and others make about other traditions they choose not to follow need to take a good hard look at themselves, and understand that everything we have today that constitutes "Buddha Dharma" has been heavily edited and ...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 3:55 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Reunify the Buddhism, is there any way?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4841
Re: Reunify the Buddhism, is there any way?
Hi everyone, I think most of us Buddhists want to see the unification of Buddhism, and if such a thing can be done it will bring massive merit for ones who did it. Is there any way to make the job done? What should everyone do? Regards Buddha Dharma is already unified. Buddhists simply need to drop...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:29 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8458
Re: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
If I make you so angry, I am sorry Regards You don't make me angry at all. Though I appreciate your attempt at apology. But I do think that people who make the kinds of remarks you, suttametta and others make about other traditions they choose not to follow need to take a good hard look at themselv...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:59 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8458
Theravāda Sectarian Attitudes
Considering all the hand-wringing and angst that goes on over the term "hīnayāna" on Dharmawheel, I was suprised to see a great deal of unfettered sectarian remarks concerning Mahāyāna Buddhism and so on over here. Well, I guess I shouldn't be suprised, because that seems to be the great c...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:48 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Similarities of Mahayana and theravada
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7974
Re: Similarities of Mahayana and theravada
And thus, very important knowledge it lost to the ages, like for example, how to treat ill people when there is no electricity and antibiotics.whynotme wrote: It works like that in science and technology, you don't need to know much about history, you just look at the logic of the current problem.
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:56 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Similarities of Mahayana and theravada
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7974
Re: Similarities of Mahayana and theravada
I understand where you are coming from. It's my opinion. The Pali framework is scientific in my view. I feel the Mahayana invokes psychobabble and pseudoscience to covert its syncretization with Vedism. This says loads about you as a Western-educated consumer of Asian religions, and very little abo...
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:16 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: E-sangha news
- Replies: 103
- Views: 34685
Re: E-sangha news
Fun to see you here. Can we expect to see you elsewhere online if an inter-sectarian forum were to pop up that suited your tastes or are you forum celibate these days? I am extremely busy these days, not "forum" celibate. Lots of folks still track me down, ask questions and so on-- but ge...
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:28 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: E-sangha news
- Replies: 103
- Views: 34685
Re: E-sangha news
E-sangha outlived its usefulness sometime ago. It is natural for things to split apart, and E-Sangha could not be everything to everyone. Even if E-Sangha were to return, it is most unlikely that I would be participating much, if at all, and certainly not as a mod or an admin. If you want to see wha...