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Not wanting to be off-topic elsewhere
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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Go Picard! Hard Arse! He's awesome.
I love how religion in the 24th century has become a hobby, and not a driving force for fanaticism and violence.
Even amongst the Bajorans, perhaps the most spiritual of the alien races, religion seemed to take a second place behind the fight for independence.
I love how religion in the 24th century has become a hobby, and not a driving force for fanaticism and violence.
Even amongst the Bajorans, perhaps the most spiritual of the alien races, religion seemed to take a second place behind the fight for independence.
Then,
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
Re: Not wanting to be off-topic elsewhere
I've always loved the expression "taking Capt Picard to warp nine".
What we need is Picard as the next Pope.
What we need is Picard as the next Pope.
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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e: [email protected]..
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Nature produced a few smart and handsome men. The rest have hair.
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I'm getting pretier day by day!David N. Snyder wrote:Nature produced a few smart and handsome men. The rest have hair.
'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' - Jhana Sutta
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You are funny, David!David N. Snyder wrote:Nature produced a few smart and handsome men. The rest have hair.
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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The buddhist inquisition is well known.
'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' - Jhana Sutta
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The difference is that disbelief in those things is punishable by a stern look from a senior monk instead of eternal damnation.Jay1 wrote:Ya know, Buddhism with it's devas, heavens, hells, ghosts and rebirths would fall into the same category Christianity does. I'm just sayin'.
Gain and loss, status and disgrace,
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
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Re: Not wanting to be off-topic elsewhere
Not sure what your point is, this site is dedicated to the discussion of the Thervada. Your last few posts are concerned with Zen and its appropriation by the Japanese government during WWII. Please help me to understand why you keep posting this stuff.Jay1 wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4HsqiyjcXw
EDIT:
I'm not trying to spread hate, just to point out errors
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
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-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
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How is what LY wrote not true?Jay1 wrote:Even if that was true (it's not), my main point stands. Buddhism believes in a lot of superstitious things like . . .LonesomeYogurt wrote: The difference is that disbelief in those things is punishable by a stern look from a senior monk instead of eternal damnation.
Those superstitious things like resurrection of the body (flesh), transubstantiation, virgin birth, heaven, hell are essential in Christianity, but those things are not essential in Buddhism. The focus is on suffering and the way out of suffering, The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. The other things (devas, hell realms, etc) will get you a stern look from a monk if you say you don't believe in the them at the most. Some monks won't even give you a stern look.