Dhamma Wheel

JamesTheGiant wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:53 am the 4NT and the 8FP

you require Dependent Arising

Inedible wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 3:01 am They valued the Heart and Diamond Sutras.

none of Buddha's actual teachings


I suppose they weren't ready

Inedible wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:49 am Zen is fast and direct. It has plenty of teaching, too.

like Advaita, you can't understand, because it's nonsense


all the while, you imagine it's too advanced

form wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:34 am The problem is the minor details will confuse

read in order to resolve things

What are the benefits of rebirth in Tushita heaven? You'll be taller than a Yāma deva, but shorter than a Nimmānaratī deva. Your life-span will be longer than a Yāma deva's, but shorter than a Nimmānaratī deva's. The apsaras will be sexier than in the Yāma heaven, but not as sexy as the ones in Nim...

DooDoot wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:15 pm Where do the scriptures refer to "rebirth suffering"?

sam·sa·ra
noun
the cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound.

Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 12:51 am In many, many ways they are the Same

each rediscovers the basic teaching

Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 12:44 am Yes, once there was one, now there are many.

each Buddha is a different person

Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 11:56 pm However although being many, He is still…

many?

Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 11:37 pm Did Buddha erase who He was?

Tathāgata is thought to mean "one who has thus gone"

Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:55 pm You will never erase who you are, Superman.

Superman is a comic book

Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:40 pm Anatta doesn't erase individuality, it strengthens it in an Enlightened Way.

almost everything you say is off

He would say, 'I won't have this arrow removed until I know whether the shaft with which I was wounded was that of a common arrow, a curved arrow, a barbed, a calf-toothed, or an oleander arrow.' The man would die and those things would still remain unknown to him. … the man would die and those thi...