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- Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:31 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: Prayers for SATTVA
- Replies: 219
- Views: 57810
Re: Prayers for SATTVA
any updates on Sattva's condition?
- Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:20 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: "Mixing" traditions?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4030
Re: "Mixing" traditions?
Hi everybody :anjali: So, here is my question : is there any problem with "mixing" traditions? :? Not really. You will have fun for a little while being eclectic, then (if you are lucky) realize that you aren't getting anywhere. It's like trying to make an aeroplane from bits and pieces o...
- Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:11 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: "Mixing" traditions?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4030
Re: "Mixing" traditions?
A/ I really feel like a need of "devotion" that's more in Pure Land for exemple; B/ I don't really like that fact that in Theravada its a need to be a monk to reach the goal, and that it's a more personal liberation compared to Mahayana... A. Actually, I find Mahayana has more of an empha...
- Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:39 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14473
Re: Richard Gombrich
I am about a quarter of the way through How Buddhism Began, and am enjoying. A couple of standpoints I don't agree with (and probably many fellow Buddhists wouldn't also) but the man is intelligent, thoroughly read and knowledgeable, and presents his arguments coherently - whether one agrees or not....
- Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:58 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14473
Re: Richard Gombrich
Depends on what particular type of Buddhism you follow...rowyourboat wrote:
I met him once and found him saying that Buddhists weren't compassionate enough. He didn't quite seem to understand the compassion wasn't the point of Buddhism.
RYB
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:31 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14473
Re: Richard Gombrich
Thank you very much everyone, you have been very helpful. Ben, I am downloading the book as I type! Venerable, I will try not to be a know-it-all, and otherwise good advice as well. I don't think the audience will be terribly interested in the finer points anyway. Interesting point about his efforts...
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:09 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14473
Re: Richard Gombrich
Thank you Mike, I'll see if I can track that down. And thank you too for alerting me to the fact that here Ven Huifeng is Paññãsikara. Ven, thanks for the heads up. This whole thing has since escalated, and I have been artfully been maneuvered ('asked') as resident nominal buddhist to "have a c...
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:46 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14473
Re: Richard Gombrich
thereductor,
just found this review by Bhikku Bodhi of "How Buddhism Began" : http://www.buddhistethics.org/4/bodhi1.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
just found this review by Bhikku Bodhi of "How Buddhism Began" : http://www.buddhistethics.org/4/bodhi1.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:30 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14473
Re: Richard Gombrich
Thank you, that's a good start and most helpful!
- Sat Sep 11, 2010 11:42 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich
- Replies: 61
- Views: 14473
Richard Gombrich
Recently I have been asked about him, and as I am neither a scholar nor a practitioner of Theravada I really had no idea. IN an admittedly casual research on him and modern Theravada I have come across a few references to his books but not much more. It seems, according to one of his interviews, tha...
- Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:06 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Dhamma Reinvented: Big Mind, Buddha Nature, etc..
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6981
Re: Dhamma Reinvented: Big Mind, Buddha Nature, etc..
Chris::: - coming in very late in the thread - Buddha Dharma is in fact an ongoing tradition. Contributions to the tradition could be commentaries, as we find in traditions such as Theravada or Mahayana, or they can be simply realizations attained by those who practice and thereby attain results. Id...
- Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:48 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Buddha Nature ?
- Replies: 162
- Views: 39643
Re: Buddha Nature ?
As has been mentioned earlier in this thread, the Gelug (and its related Madhyamaka perspective) presentation really doesn't give much (if any) airtime to "Buddha Nature". In the Gelug stages of the path (Lam Rim) it doesn't come up. The most that I have ever heard my teacher ever say abou...
- Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:16 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What is right view?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 25795
Re: What is right view?
Not sure if this is off topic, but from the Theravada POV, what is wrong view? Is it the same as ignorance? Or does the latter lead to the former? Hi, in abhidhammic classification: Wrong view (ditthi) is one of the unwholesome mental factors (akusala cetasikas). Ignorance (moha) is also an unwhole...
- Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:12 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What is right view?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 25795
Re: What is right view?
Not sure if this is off topic, but from the Theravada POV, what is wrong view? Is it the same as ignorance? Or does the latter lead to the former?
- Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:15 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Nagarjuna
- Replies: 80
- Views: 16181
Re: Nagarjuna
Blackbird, not sure that this is an introductory but the text is explained well and cuts to the core of Arya Nagarjuna's presentation on Emptiness: http://www.amazon.com/Nagarjunas-Seventy-Stanzas-Psychology-Emptiness/dp/0937938394 If you are interested also try and find a good commentary in English...