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- Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:56 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Hearing our voices - VICTORY ON WHALES
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1674
Re: Hearing our voices - VICTORY ON WHALES
Great news! Thank you, Cooran.
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:28 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY COORAN!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4202
Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY COORAN!
Belated Happy Birthday, Cooran! I'm glad it was a happy day for you.
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:28 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Another question... Buddhism and Evolution
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7559
Re: Another question... Buddhism and Evolution
The Pew Research Center did a poll asking adherents of various religions if they "agree that evolution is the best explanation for the origins of human life on Earth." Eighty-one percent of Buddhist respondents replied "yes." The link below will take you to an article with a tabl...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:58 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: the great vegetarian debate
- Replies: 5693
- Views: 970414
Re: Buddhism and Vegetarianism.
Hi, Claire. We are not required to be vegetarians in Theravada, according to the Pali scriptures. I think that one reason for this may be that the first monks and nuns often had to rely on almsfood from a mostly nonBuddhist society in which the slaughter of animals occurred (although some apparently...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:18 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Food Buddha?????
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3355
Re: Food Buddha?????
Hi Thaibebop Unfortunately, we live in samsara and from time to tme, somethings are going to get under our skin. We can't really do anything about what's going on inside the minds of others, so concentrate on developing your own sila, samadhi and panna. Living a Dhammic life is an exemplary life an...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:20 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: "Nothing exists", or (how) does it?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 12526
Re: "Nothing exists", or (how) does it?
Hi Anna, I think we need to define our terms clearly here. I do have a self, I feel. I am clearly not my cat, which had another self, and I am not my best friend, she has her own self. But we don't have a permanent self. Right. Right? So the statement "we don't have a self" seems again in...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:57 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Carl Sagan
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2321
Re: Carl Sagan
"We have grown distant from the Cosmos. It has seemed more remote and irrelevant to everyday concerns. But science has found not only that the universe has a reeling and ecstatic grandeur, not only that it is accessible to human understanding, but also that we are, in a very real and profound s...
- Sun Jun 13, 2010 5:31 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Alan Wallace on Modern Vipassana
- Replies: 149
- Views: 39075
Re: Alan Wallace on Modern Vipassana
This is an irresponsible set of statements by Wallace. It is the sort of thing that reads like a sectarian polemic. There is no balance in it. Tilt, I see your point. I think that Wallace made a mistake and could have been more careful with his words ("many modern vipassana teachers"), bu...
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:16 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Alan Wallace on Modern Vipassana
- Replies: 149
- Views: 39075
Re: Alan Wallace on Modern Vipassana
Many meditation teachers preach the idea that to pay attention is enough. "Watch what arises and don't judge it" seems to be the dominant ethos. Scores of books echo this. If 'mindfulness" has become a one-word path, then "bare-attention" is it's aim. I'm waiting for a coge...
Re: Help me
I feel like the sky is crushing on my head and the earth underneath me is crumbling with every step I take. I sacrificed so much to go to school and now I am in debt, now that I am done with school I cant find a job, my car has died, I have no money living with my parents. My girlfriend left me las...
- Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:57 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Big News!!!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4466
Re: Big News!!!
Congratulations, bodom!
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:14 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Happy Birthday Modus.Ponens
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1848
Re: Happy Birthday Modus.Ponens
***Happy Birthday, M.P.!***
- Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:10 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: The Bodhisattva Ideal in Theravada
- Replies: 478
- Views: 88363
Re: The Bodhisattva Ideal in Theravada
... The Bodhisattva vow dictates that one holds off enlightenment until all beings are enlightened, this means that that person basically takes a vow never to become enlightened as all being being enlightened is impossible. This is not the teaching of the Buddha. ... A lot of the time, this isn't e...
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:46 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1374
Re: Greetings
Hi, Cal! Welcome.
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 1:33 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Happy Birthday Ven. Dhammanando and Adept
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3839
Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Dhammanando and Adept
Happy Birthday, Ven. Dhammanando & Adept!