DNS wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:57 pm Secular buddhism = who cares, there's no rebirth anyway.

also known as lying to oneself

Pondera wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:44 am Yes, we destroy, pollute, and waste away every part of the earth we come into contact to.

this is a function of Kali Yuga

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

i have suspected he holds eternalist views, but i would be glad to know if he did not. eternity is not the same as eternalism its been my understanding that he doesnt wish for westerners to think nibbāna means annihilation. but this could be done by carefully explaining that nibbāna is the cessatio...

simsapa wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:45 pm The Jains, for instance, believed that kamma was a kind of particle matter that got attached to the soul. It would then be the goal of practice to rid the soul of this matter. I'm looking for clear refutation of this view.

your intentions affect your mind


your mind affects you and your future

DNS wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:00 pm But there may be a small percent who really did see something in their NDE

mjaviem wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 3:02 pm What do you think?

well if people cannot handle the truth, then they should not practice Buddhism

Bundokji wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 11:12 am

cappuccino wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:14 pm Viññanam anidassanam

Yes, it is the wrong sign

No…

Bundokji wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 2:50 pm Where does the Buddha teach that consciousness without feature to be the unconditioned?

Viññanam anidassanam

Bundokji wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 2:08 pm Where is the annihilation in what i said? Being beyond element does not make it any less of a condition

the unconditioned is unborn and so immortal

Bundokji wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:41 am That does not make it eternal.

you believe in annihilation?


that's wrong view

pegembara wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:58 am There is no world out there.

mjaviem wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:47 pm You can read what I said believing we have a special connection to past lifes or you can read it without believing it.

Could you quote a Sutta … so I can correct my view? I recollected my manifold past lives, i.e., one birth, two...five, ten...fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand, many eons of cosmic contraction, many eons of cosmic expansion, many eons of cosmic contraction & expansion: 'There I had su...