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Panel Discussion

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Including Atheist, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Catholic contributors fielding questions from the studio and online audience.
On now: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/
A transcript and streaming/download link to follow for non aussie members.
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They first asked Ajahn Brahm to be the Buddhist representative, but he couldn't because he is taking a retreat at Jhana Grove at the moment.
Interesting that they chose these people... a Jewish Atheist to represent Judaism... the controversial Ajahn Brahm to represent Buddhism...
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Always disappointing when Mahayana stands in place of the Dhamma as representative of Buddhism, but it seems to be the way of it with these sorts of things.

/ :soap:

:meditate:
  • "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.

    "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.

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I don't mind Venerable Robina (Vajrayana) as the Buddhist representative.
She has a bit of a profile in this country having set up a very successful prison program.
Venerable is very down to earth, gutsy and pragmatic.
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“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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daverupa wrote:Always disappointing when Mahayana stands in place of the Dhamma as representative of Buddhism, but it seems to be the way of it with these sorts of things.

/ :soap:

:meditate:
Um, I know this is a Theravada forum and all, but that sounds like you're saying Mahayana is not Dhamma.
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James the Giant wrote:
daverupa wrote:Always disappointing when Mahayana stands in place of the Dhamma as representative of Buddhism, but it seems to be the way of it with these sorts of things.

/ :soap:

:meditate:
Um, I know this is a Theravada forum and all, but that sounds like you're saying Mahayana is not Dhamma.
When taken in the aggregate, in includes a lot which isn't, but I don't think that's in dispute anywhere. My disappointment arises over the dilution.
  • "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.

    "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.

- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]
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and if you watched the panel discussion, Dave, I think your concerns would be allayed.
“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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