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- Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:14 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Wrong practise?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2162
Re: Wrong practise?
Don't beat yourself too hard. It's not that bad. That's how most Asian lay Buddhists practice. I think as long as she is a decent person, it's all good man. Not everyone wants liberation, so being a decent human sounds pretty good to me.
- Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:08 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread
- Replies: 2423
- Views: 597399
Re: Why has annihilationism proliferated Theravada so profusely?
How can you annihilate something that cannot be seen or touched?
- Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:48 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Are theravada practicioners more accomplished?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6361
Re: Are theravada practicioners more accomplished?
Zen is hard work
So is Theravada
So is Theravada
- Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:43 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
- Replies: 156
- Views: 35694
Re: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
Maybe, maybe not...all the time actions, and thoughts, get lumped into a single category of, or universal to, human behavior, and that just isn't so...(in my experience)... [ You are right. It may or may not arise. But I am talking about the mental habitual reactions that we have been used to for s...
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
- Replies: 156
- Views: 35694
Re: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
ok point taken.
however, prevention or caution is also important as a certain consciousness arises when there is a certain contact with the object of that consciousness.
however, prevention or caution is also important as a certain consciousness arises when there is a certain contact with the object of that consciousness.
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
- Replies: 156
- Views: 35694
Re: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
And Theravadin monks do follow strict Vinaya rules. Not directly looking at women or touching women is like one of those rules. "Like" one of those rules? It is not one of those rules at all, the way you've written it here - it is a matter of intention, not ritual avoidance. Yes...ritual ...
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
- Replies: 156
- Views: 35694
Re: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
From my understanding, there exists no female monks in Cambodian Theravada tradition in Vietnam. Note that there is also Vietnamese Theravada tradition which is constituted of mostly ethnic Vietnamese while the Cambodian Theravada tradition is constituted of ethnic Cambodians. Vietnam has many peopl...
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:50 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Where are you from?
- Replies: 138
- Views: 207125
Re: Where are you from?
I was born in Vietnam. Currently, I live in United States. So United States.
- Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:48 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11580
Re: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)
If the mind is empty, then phenomenal things are interdependent as described in Dependent Origination.tiltbillings wrote:But that does not tell us anything useful.LastLegend wrote:Right now you experience mind, do you not?tiltbillings wrote: So, how do we experience the mind?
- Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:42 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11580
Re: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)
So, how do we experience the mind? Right now you experience mind, do you not? Just not directly. When you become an Arahant, you will also experience mind at a different level. ...is to give us a large load of conceptualization about the mind. Yes what you said is true. But it is also true that you...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:33 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11580
Re: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)
Hello folks.
I just want to say the mind is empty, cannot be conceptualized, touched, imagined. It's what we experience everyday. But it is nowhere to be seen or observed even at subatomic level because it is empty.
I just want to say the mind is empty, cannot be conceptualized, touched, imagined. It's what we experience everyday. But it is nowhere to be seen or observed even at subatomic level because it is empty.
- Fri May 20, 2011 3:20 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
- Replies: 205
- Views: 46247
Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
With reference to your original statement. You need to relearn what sakkāya diṭṭhi is. No thanks. Wow!!! Willfull ignorance. You don't understand Buddha-nature from a Mahayana standpoint and you do not want to learn what the Buddha has to say about things. I will now back out of this room. Thank yo...
- Fri May 20, 2011 3:14 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
- Replies: 205
- Views: 46247
Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
If Buddha nature is defined as something that all beings have or some capacity that all beings have then what is wrong with Buddha nature is that it is just one more way of constructing a doctrine of self....Buddha nature seems to be a doctrine of self based on the illusion that there is a self whi...
- Fri May 20, 2011 4:25 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
- Replies: 205
- Views: 46247
Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
I don't know what you are saying either...it's all good man. But let's stay on topic friend.alan wrote:LL,
You are officially reprimanded on two counts.
One, not knowing that of which you speak.
Two, being a person with no sense of humor or awareness.
I punish you to being banished until further notice.
- Fri May 20, 2011 4:25 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
- Replies: 205
- Views: 46247
Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
I am sure they are, but I was just avoiding the confusion in what I was trying to say.
And there are some Dhamma police here.
And there are some Dhamma police here.