Cool-team wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:37 am Is Mahayana Buddhism idealism, or does it say that the entire physical world exists independently of the minds of living beings?

You should ask on the Mahayana forum - https://www.dharmawheel.net/search.php? ... ive_topics


Kim

Karma works on the principle of positive feedback. Please provide an example to help with understanding this possibility. Here is a simple example showing why I don't understand: Suppose I say a kind word (A) to someone. Who knows even when and how the kammic result (B) will come? And how do we kno...

dharmacorps wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:04 pm The recipient of kamma is in most cases ignorant of the "feedback".

True, but that doesn't stop it working - any more than ignorance of gravity loosens our bondage to the earth.


Kim

I recently published my first book - Beyond Mindfulness: In Search of Wisdom in a Secular Age. I wrote it for intellectually-minded seekers who are wary of the dogmas of traditional religion but are interested in mindfulness meditation. It explores our unexamined adherence to the materialistic worl...

I'm sure you shared this here years ago - I remember the map.


Kim

Hello all, Okay so I subscribed to Gaia TV and there's a lot of themes about how aliens visited the earth. One of these creatures are called Reptilians ... Thoughts? 🙏 Frankly, I think you should dig your garden, help out in a soup kitchen or thrift shop, sit with your local meditation group, take ...

what is written about sariputta and moggalana in jain text? ********** NECRO ALERT! ************ You have just re-awakened a thread that has been sleeping peacefully for more than ten years. I hope you've read it all and followed its links, because most of the people involved are no longer active h...

... Disregard would be a better way to describe it... and not so much so because it's "far too flowery and all over the place", which it is, but because there's enough in the Sutta Pitaka to go on with than to obsess over curious works of dubious origin. I feel this way too. There is so much in the...

Greetings, That sounds like you didn't look at the second part. Aside from being called Mindfulness Of A Body and including a list of body parts, that's alien too. Metta, Paul. :) Alien in what way? You dismissed the whole thing because it... ...Doesn't read like any Pali Sutta I've ever read... fa...

Greetings, Doesn't read like any Pali Sutta I've ever read... far too flowery and all over the place. Metta, Paul. :) That sounds like you didn't look at the second part. ...Such is the Dharma teaching known as The Application of Mindfulness of the Body. Pay full attention and listen well; I shall ...

Thanks, Nicholas. Reading the introductory material and taking a very quick look at the translation, it seems to me that the Mahayana/Theravada question could be answered, "It's both!" since the two main sections of the sutra are so different. In fact, I was surprised not to see any suggestion that ...

You must be an Aussie.

I suspect rabbits don't breed like rabbits in the wilds of the Himalaya.


Kim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavacakra

...but what BlackMagic is trying to say about it is ... ... unorthodox at the very least.


Kim

Wondering if Suffering is appropriate word for dukkha and if there is Pali word for consent to compare. Hopefully someone knows a word or two they can bring for comparative purposes. Metta, Paul. :) DooDoot has given us the Pali for "consent" As for English words for "dukkha" ... suffering, dis-eas...

:rofl: All I was trying to do was to remind you - yes, just you, DD, not "Buddhist forums" - that most lay Buddhists do in fact drink alcohol pretty regularly, in spite of the Precepts. (Most lay Christians steal, too, and covet, and break others of the Commandments, and many Muslims also drink alc...