Hi,
Someone on this board suggested that it would be useful to have an "añjali icon". Here is one:
Añjali icon
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Re: Añjali icon
Not that I use them, but it is nice to have an actual Buddhist icon rather than using a Hindu one.
>> 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
Re: Añjali icon
Great! I agree, it's great to have a Buddhist one.piotr wrote:Hi,
Someone on this board suggested that it would be useful to have an "añjali icon". Here is one:
Re: Añjali icon
Thanks you!
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Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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I have refrained from using the other one so thanks.piotr wrote:Hi,
Great! I'm glad you like it.
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Can we pass it around? Share it with Zen Forum International folks?
>> 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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Re: Añjali icon
Call me stupid (I'm sorry for my ignorance) but what does Anjali mean? Is it an exclusively Buddhist term? How is it different from Namaste?
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Hi Mawkish,
Take a look here: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philol ... 1:293.pali" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Namaste has just different spiritual background.
Take a look here: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philol ... 1:293.pali" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Namaste has just different spiritual background.
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Namaste = I bow to that (divinity) inherent in you.
That is why it is not Buddhist.
Metta
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That is why it is not Buddhist.
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Re: Añjali icon
Love it!
but is their a Buddhist equivalent to Namaste?
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but is their a Buddhist equivalent to Namaste?
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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Re: Añjali icon
I haven't minded using the "namaste" one too much, because I figure it's a nice sentiment even if it might be flavored with mundane wrong view. I've also heard it translated as "I recognize the Buddha in you," and loosely that could mean, I recognize our potential to be enlightened. If we drop the whole me/you duality, then "namaste" becomes a little more "Buddhist." And if we also drop the whole divine/ordinary duality, it becomes even a little more "Buddhist." But the most important part of the emoticon in my mind was the hand-to-hand bow.
Regardless, this new icon is better.
Regardless, this new icon is better.
Rain soddens what is kept wrapped up,
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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On second thought the Buddha did not deny divinity and he also recognized the value to be found in acting out of divine intention.
So there is no reason to say that using "namaste" somehow contradicts Buddhist principles except the part about the divinity being "inherent" which Im not sure it means. I got that from wicki.
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So there is no reason to say that using "namaste" somehow contradicts Buddhist principles except the part about the divinity being "inherent" which Im not sure it means. I got that from wicki.
Metta
Gabriel
"Beautifully taught is the Lord's Dhamma, immediately apparent, timeless, of the nature of a personal invitation, progressive, to be attained by the wise, each for himself." Anguttara Nikaya V.332