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by genkaku
Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:03 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Spreading Buddhism
Replies: 64
Views: 14989

Re: Spreading Buddhism

Dear Sanghmitta -- No disrespect intended from here. It's not a matter of what bothers me. It's a matter of what actually works ... which is something you will find out for yourself and I will find out for mine. I just hope neither of us becomes too content.
by genkaku
Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:39 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Spreading Buddhism
Replies: 64
Views: 14989

Re: Spreading Buddhism

appicchato wrote:Around and around we go... :popcorn:

I always knew you were a good dancer. :smile:
by genkaku
Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:24 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Spreading Buddhism
Replies: 64
Views: 14989

Re: Spreading Buddhism

I think the attempt not to call Buddhism Buddhism is a bigger waste of energy than any possible danger of instutionalism. Not a 'bigger' waste of time ... the same waste of time. How many times must anyone say it: Words and institutions are tentative. Tentative. TENTATIVE. Anyone who has ever done ...
by genkaku
Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:41 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Spreading Buddhism
Replies: 64
Views: 14989

Re: Spreading Buddhism

A line that popped into my mind one day was this: "Just because you are indispensable to the universe does not mean that the universe needs your help." If asked, answer. If unasked ... well, don't you have something useful to do? Buddhism would have died out a long time ago if the best it ...
by genkaku
Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:13 pm
Forum: Dhammic Stories
Topic: The value of miracles
Replies: 3
Views: 1931

Re: The value of miracles

From the Online Etymology Dictionary: Miracle From O.Fr. miracle, from L. miraculum "object of wonder" (in Church L., "marvelous event caused by God"), from mirari "to wonder at," from mirus "wonderful," from *smeiros, from PIE *(s)mei- "to smile, be asto...
by genkaku
Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:39 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Doing it slowly..
Replies: 13
Views: 3673

Re: Doing it slowly..

Not sure how relevant this may be, but .... When I was a kid, I was skiing once. As I climbed back up the hill at one point, a man I did not know called me over to him and said, in essence, "Look, any dummy can ski fast. It takes a good skiier to ski slow." I tried it ... and I can't tell ...
by genkaku
Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:20 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: How does the 'Silent Mind' affect the intellectual mind?
Replies: 9
Views: 3172

Re: How does the 'Silent Mind' affect the intellectual mind?

FWIW, I think that any discipline -- scientific, artistic, poetic, spiritual, etc. -- will, if the student is truly diligent, lead to the same place. And to that extent, there is no reason to suppose that a scientist and someone devoted to meditation would be at odds. Setting aside adoration and att...
by genkaku
Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:26 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: If you think your life is hard
Replies: 7
Views: 1665

Re: If you think your life is hard

I always liked the line, "Your life is so difficult that it has never been tried before."
by genkaku
Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:35 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Babysitter or day care?
Replies: 1
Views: 1137

Re: Babysitter or day care?

I vote with appicchato.
by genkaku
Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:13 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: hello friends
Replies: 17
Views: 5600

Re: hello friends

Welcome Vinayanandabk. I hope your studies go well and that you find something useful here.
by genkaku
Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:21 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Extraverts in Buddhism?
Replies: 23
Views: 7845

Re: Extraverts in Buddhism?

Hi retro -- Without throwing a wet, watch-me-wax-wise blanket on things, don't you think that when the extrovert finds out that that doesn't work and when the introvert finds out that that doesn't work -- when either of these recognizes that the waters are not yet stilled -- well, maybe Buddhism sta...
by genkaku
Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:12 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: do not do...
Replies: 8
Views: 2630

Re: do not do...

I dont know if this distinction matters Adam, but I dont think that there is a Theravada view of the master which is analogous to the Zen view of the master.. Which means that the queston possibly addresses a non-issue in terms of the Theravada ? Or at least a different set of issues. Possibly. You...
by genkaku
Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:23 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: do not do...
Replies: 8
Views: 2630

do not do...

An old saying in Zen -- or perhaps in all of Buddhism for all I know -- suggests

Do not do as the master did. Know what the master knew.

What's your view of such a suggestion?
by genkaku
Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:44 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Great doubt, great enlightenment...
Replies: 40
Views: 9676

Re: Great doubt, great enlightenment...

To me, it simply means that practice is endless and anything short of that endlessness falls short. In my mind the saying is not meant as a criticism or even necessarily as an encouragement. Rather, it is a straightforward observation of fact...like saying, "the car is blue," when it is in...
by genkaku
Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:18 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
Replies: 7
Views: 2317

Re: Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09

Ben -- And here I thought palindromes (spelled with an 'I') were just those nifty little sentences that read the same from front to back, eg. "Madam, I'm Adam" or "Able was I ere I saw Elba" or "Do geese see God?"

Thanks for the update. :smile: