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- Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:03 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Spreading Buddhism
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15008
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.
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:39 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Spreading Buddhism
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15008
Re: Spreading Buddhism
appicchato wrote:Around and around we go...
I always knew you were a good dancer.
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:24 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Spreading Buddhism
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15008
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 ...
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:41 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Spreading Buddhism
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15008
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 ...
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:13 pm
- Forum: Dhammic Stories
- Topic: The value of miracles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1938
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...
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:39 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Doing it slowly..
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3683
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 ...
- Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:20 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: How does the 'Silent Mind' affect the intellectual mind?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3177
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...
- Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:26 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: If you think your life is hard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1669
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."
- Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:35 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Babysitter or day care?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1139
Re: Babysitter or day care?
I vote with appicchato.
- Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:13 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: hello friends
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5617
Re: hello friends
Welcome Vinayanandabk. I hope your studies go well and that you find something useful here.
- Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:21 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Extraverts in Buddhism?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7860
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...
- Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:12 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: do not do...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2636
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...
- Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:23 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: do not do...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2636
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?
Do not do as the master did. Know what the master knew.
What's your view of such a suggestion?
- Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:44 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Great doubt, great enlightenment...
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9703
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...
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:18 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2323
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.
Thanks for the update.