Sorry to start a new thread, but I have come up with one concrete notion out of the conversation we had over the last week (and which is now locked). It is the notion of having some kind of standard for criticism of non-Theravada traditions or positions. I personally like critique. I think it is fin...

For example, the Frankfurt School is really Hegelian on the question of truth (i.e. truth emerges in a historical dialectic). Now the point is that I don't see anyone making deep arguments, say about Kant and Hegel and how truth or knowledge might emerge either individually or collectively. The Heg...

These are our practices, and they're based on over a decade worth of involvement in the governance of online Buddhist forums. With all due respect to you (and with genuine appreciation for your candour throughout this conversation), you have been here at Dhamma Wheel for less than two months, and m...

Greetings, The issue is very clear to me: it is the conflation of a holding and asserting an explicit political position (and also moderating on that basis) with a simultaneous claim of political neutrality. These are contradictory things. Actually, it's far simpler than that... we police behaviour...

I'm going to out myself as someone who has taught political philosophy and ethics at university for many years. The issue is very clear to me: it is the conflation of a holding and asserting an explicit political position (and also moderating on that basis) with a simultaneous claim of political neu...

Greetings Upeksha, There has been explicit statements of the kind that people such as myself who object to and speak up about antisemitic content only do so on the basis of self-righteousness, in order to gain some kind of personal benefit (I wonder what on earth this might be!), have the intention...

Well, I think that this thread demonstrates that we are all capable of having a collective think on these thorny issues, and if nothing else, that the situation is not at all black and white. It is difficult, complex and inherently contestable. What this leads to or ought to lead to probably should ...

Well, it's good we've attempted some kind of dialogue around these issues. I was never asking that everyone adopt or subscribe to my particular view, only that as a community we check in with each other to see if we're meeting some kind of mutually agreed standard for discourse. And I think it is pr...

I have re-posted this from the News thread, so that all forum members may consider their position: The issue at stake is whether Dhammawheel is an appropriate place to post text book antisemitic material. And the answer to this of course depends upon what our community standards are - and these are ...

Greetings, Here he discusses that Dhamma practice is for the long haul .. it may take million of years but to be determined. Which is of course the Mahayana view, which he represents appropriately in his official capacity as HHDL. What he says may be true of his Dharma possibly, but I do not ever r...

form wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 1:31 am

Upeksha wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 12:42 am "Don't take advice over the internet by people who have no idea what you're experiencing."

Best advice as above.

Even if, to quote Walt Whitman: "Do I contradict myself, very well I contradict myself."

"Don't take advice over the internet by people who have no idea what you're experiencing."

To further clarify what negation actually is, I offer another J.Krishnamurti quote: Krishnamurti: To deny all this is to deny oneself, and oneself is the conditioned entity who continually pursues a conditioned good. To most of us negation appears as a vacuum because we know activity only in the pr...

I'm not sure I have the time to get into a big discussion, but have to admit that I'm interested - if only because it's so contrary to the way I understand it. This could mean that there is a kind of blindness on my side that needs to be dispelled....Could you offer a quick characterisation of how ...

Annica and anatta do not offer a coherent way of grounding out any plausible theory of capital B Being. Exactly and since the dependency described in PS culminates in "this whole mass of suffering" it makes good sense that the links described therein are rooted in the ignorance upon which...