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- Thu Jan 15, 2015 8:18 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Why we can be certain that God does not exist
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6048
Re: Why we can be certain that God does not exist
Everytime I see the title of this topic I smile because we are mostly very confused about our own self's existence and now we can be certain about the existence of god? :jumping: Or indeed the non-existence of God. I've debated this question with theists quite a bit, and the bottom line is that we ...
- Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:28 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Looking for "Right Effort" Reminder graphic/wallpaper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3533
Re: Looking for "Right Effort" Reminder graphic/wallpaper
So busy I forgot I posted here! Thanks for the replies... can't comment but will check back later!
- Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:01 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Looking for "Right Effort" Reminder graphic/wallpaper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3533
Looking for "Right Effort" Reminder graphic/wallpaper
Happy new year! Did you know 2015 is the year of right effort? Well, at least for me it is. Each year I have been focusing on a particular aspect of the eightfold path. Last year I worked on right speech. It was great. Of course, not perfect. This year I am working on right effort. It fits as I am i...
- Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:56 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Mindfulness: has it been hijacked by business or...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2706
Re: Mindfulness: has it been hijacked by business or...
Is this the beginning of "counterfeit Dhamma"? No, because it isn't Dhamma at all -- the goals are different. It just happens that mindfulness techniques have been shown to be beneficial in various contexts other than Buddhism. For example, when I was in my twenties, I suffered from anxie...
- Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:34 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Gym or no gym
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12919
Re: Gym or no gym
The Buddha walked a lot. A whole lot. http://www.oxherding.com/.a/6a00e5537c83be8834015433f8a35a970c-800wi That's just his travels, and who knows how much he went back and forth, and where else he went. He also went for alms every day. He walked a lot. Now think of how sedentary we are as a society....
- Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:26 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Ajahn Chah's Warning to the Meditator
- Replies: 84
- Views: 18515
Re: Meditation danger?
This is why I like Thanissaro's approach. It is oriented towards the jhanas, by exercising one's discernment about what kind of breathing is leading one to or away from the various jhanic factors. The breathing should feel "good, comfortable, pleasurable." The breath should be a compelling...
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:02 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Mindfulness: A Secularized Buddhist Practice in the West
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4771
Re: Mindfulness: A Secularized Buddhist Practice in the West
I have never know mindfulness in zen to be taught free of context which seems to me what you are talking about. Its a part of the path and is practiced as such in my experience. As I said " But even in Zen mindfulness is part of a whole package with meditation and so forth...." So I'm not...
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:26 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Mindfulness: A Secularized Buddhist Practice in the West
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4771
Re: Mindfulness: A Secularized Buddhist Practice in the West
I never understood the difference, i can recall asking people about this and the two sounded almost exactly the same to me, at least the way mindfulness is used in zen. So enlighten me, whats the difference? "And what is right mindfulness? There is the case where a monk remains focused on the ...
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:43 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: "Buddhism 3.0" reform movement in Japan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4110
Re: "Buddhism 3.0" reform movement in Japan
Buddhism (as a movement) tends to respond to the culture it is in. So it can be hard to judge. Zen was (in my view) originally a response to an overly academic mahayana Buddhist epidemic. (Basically "Buddhism" had degraded to bickering about Sutras). I think that these days, people are so ...
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:22 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Are we "Columbusing" Buddhism?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1058
Are we "Columbusing" Buddhism?
My wife and I read this article awhile ago: 'Columbusing': The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New If you've danced to an Afrobeat-heavy pop song, dipped hummus, sipped coconut water, participated in a Desi-inspired color run or sported a henna tattoo, then you've Columbused something. Colu...
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:03 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Exploring the Three Marks.
- Replies: 186
- Views: 20878
Re: Exploring the Three Marks.
yes . What I am trying to say is we have to analyse components in Sutta as a whole. We should not bog-down in, only one aspect of the teaching. We should make an attempt to see how each components relate to final goal. :) I think we should analyse the suttas very carefully. However I do think that ...
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:16 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Do bad thoughts create bad karma?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 16731
Re: Do bad thoughts create bad karma?
Hello everyone, 1. First of all I want to know if bad thoughts that are unacted upon create bad karma? Yes, but not nearly so bad or unskillful as when acted upon. And blaming yourself about having them just makes more unwholesome mental states. 2. Sometimes impulsive thoughts come to my mind. Late...
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:49 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Exploring the Three Marks.
- Replies: 186
- Views: 20878
Re: Exploring the Three Marks.
As I quoted above: See: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/stud ... passage-52Spiny Norman wrote:How so?meindzai wrote: I believe the order matters in a sense, because annata with regards to samsara is explained by anicca and dukkha.
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:40 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Understanding the buddha's enlightenment
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3736
Re: Understanding the buddha's enlightenment
I believe that there are discourses in which the Buddha claims to posess the first two forms of knowledge after his enlightenment. Regards, Vincent. Yes, there are suttas where he tells a story about "back when I was a..." in order to illustrate a point. There are also suttas where he see...
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:30 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Understanding the buddha's enlightenment
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3736
Re: Understanding the buddha's enlightenment
According to the sutras ( I' m using the bhikkhu bodhi translations ) the buddha attained 3 knowledges the night of his enlightenment. In the first watch of the night the Buddha remember many past lives. I'm the second watch of the night the Buddha understood how beings are reborn according to thei...