Just as there are different levels of consciousness for trees, ants, cats, whales and humans, each of those species including humans have their own layers of consciousness too determined by genetics. Those born with a high enough level of consciousness have been called "enlightened" by tho...

Why would anyone even need buddhism to become a buddha ??? Or the title buddha for that matter? (psssst more rhetorical questions.). Somewhere there is a buddha which never heard of buddhism or the word buddha. It never heard or studies any of your rules or laws for being what it is. In fact there a...

And that is another funny thing. Imagine people who are not buddhas deciding who is and is not a buddha? That is like someone who is not a brain-surgeon giving themselves the authority to decide who is and is not going to do brain surgery right? Hilarious huh? Yes it is. But it is done in the buddh...

santa100 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 3:35 am

gben wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 3:02 am

It doesn't seem like you have read DN 26. Please read it carefully and it should answer many of your above inquiries.

It doesn't seem like you have read the definition of the word "rhetorical". Please read it carefully so you will see I have no actual questions.

After a few thousand years of countless people jumping through these theravada and other hoops there should have been x number of buddhas produced right? Where are they ??? After the original Buddha became a buddha, he had no problem running around and telling all his buddies and acquaintances and a...

It is really sad that the word "legal" has anything to do with Buddhism at all isn't it ? And it is funny that some people will tell you that their Buddhism is to set you free, to free the person, but at the same time they say you have to spend weeks, months, years or decades trapped in th...

Mindfulness is simply a matter of practice. You were once very, very mindful for the first year or so of your life, then you were taught to separate yourself from everything else and center your thoughts on you. The more you practice watching and learning the more you will head back to that first ye...

If a buddhist or a school of buddhism pays homage to the Buddha or teaches others to then they are not actually buddhists or buddhist schools. Currently most buddhism and most buddhist teachers and teachings are either very far from what Buddhism actually is or completely not necessary. Just as mode...

At this point, "Buddhism" has become anything goes -- pretty much anything and everything can pass for "Buddhism". So which is it? If you know what you are then you will know what else is real and what is false. It is true that most schools of Eastern Thought and their students ...

If a religion or spiritual practice depresses, then it is not actually a religious or spiritual practice.

The viewpoint that there is no free will, in my understanding, is an evil viewpoint that will likely lead you to justify the doing of unwholesome actions, and lead you to hell. Please relinquish it, for the good of yourself and others.If you're trolling, likewise, give it up. A tree has no free wil...

All sexual activities are the same to a Buddha, because all of life is the same to a Buddha. It is the mind that creates differences, the mind is difference.

There is no free will, so there is no morality. Buddhas by nature can have no morality. Only the deluded make choices. It is funny to those who are a slave to thought that a Buddha does not have any choices to make. The Buddha is like an orange, it does not have to decide to be an orange, it simply ...

Here's a passage from the arahat disciple Ananda, which I think would clash with your view (that the Dhamma should not be memorized). Only for those who mistake words for reality or truth does it clash. One can remember all the words in the world and still understand nothing about them or what thei...

This is your lucky day as on this day you will be freed. The solution to death is simply to never think about it again. While your death is your thinking you are undeniably self-serving. Beginning this moment only move your body and mind in service of others. Any given moment that is spent in servic...