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by Dweller
Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:47 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Tao
Replies: 76
Views: 2933

Re: Tao

This is also cool. Tao Te Ching about tranquility and letting go. 40. In seeking knowledge, day by day some- thing is added. In following Tao, day by day something is dropped. Day by day you do less and less deliberately. Day by day you don’t do more and more. You do less and less and don’t do more ...
by Dweller
Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:04 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Tao
Replies: 76
Views: 2933

Re: Tao

19. First we name. Then we describe. Then we compare. Then we set one first, another last. As soon as we start to name it’s time to stop. 20. Fill yourself with utmost emptiness. Embrace internal tranquility. The ten thou- sand things, see how they arise and flow around you—each one coming into bei...
by Dweller
Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:22 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Tao
Replies: 76
Views: 2933

Re: Tao

19. First we name. Then we describe. Then we compare. Then we set one first, another last. As soon as we start to name it’s time to stop. 20. Fill yourself with utmost emptiness. Embrace internal tranquility. The ten thou- sand things, see how they arise and flow around you—each one coming into bei...
by Dweller
Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:31 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Stop looking for a Method... it's already there.
Replies: 315
Views: 8890

Re: Stop looking for a Method... it's already there.

But why would be a problem if something not explicitly mentioned in the suttas help one to get concentrated? I don't see it being forbidden or even discouraged in the suttas. When Buddha in simplest terms describes what is dhamma, it seems to possibly include teachings given by other teachers. I don...
by Dweller
Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:59 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Doctrinal source of 'Buddho' meditation of the Thai Forest tradition
Replies: 24
Views: 4233

Re: Doctrinal source of 'Buddho' meditation of the Thai Forest tradition

It's a tool, one can say Coca Cola to make it equally effective.
by Dweller
Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:28 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Transgender
Replies: 19
Views: 1180

Re: Transgender

They could be better in terms of dana and sila than most heterosexuals around the world, at least when it comes to dana.
by Dweller
Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:07 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Was the Buddha a blue-eyed light skinned Aryan?
Replies: 179
Views: 19856

Re: Was the Buddha a blue-eyed light skinned Aryan?

So if we use this gene supposedly as a marker (which many think is too simplistic) do we say the Aryans 'originated' in Eastern Europe? Or in the Greater India region and Iran since they came to Europe from there? No Indo-Aryans ever came to Europe, other than Romani people and recent immigrants fr...
by Dweller
Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:26 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Was the Buddha a blue-eyed light skinned Aryan?
Replies: 179
Views: 19856

Re: Was the Buddha a blue-eyed light skinned Aryan?

His eyes could be blue.

I don't have enough knowledge about that, but as far as I can remember from listening somebody more knowledgable, they are described with the term which can mean black when describing skin color, but in the case of eyes it could really mean blue.
by Dweller
Sun Oct 17, 2021 12:44 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Was the Buddha a blue-eyed light skinned Aryan?
Replies: 179
Views: 19856

Re: Was the Buddha a blue-eyed light skinned Aryan?

You seem to be trying to establish genetic and culural link between Northern Europeans and Indo-Aryans or at least with Proto-Indo-Iranians. What haplogroup would be the connection, what cultural links are there, and how they fare when compared to such connections in modern Indians or even Slavs? If...
by Dweller
Sun Oct 17, 2021 12:28 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Was the Buddha a blue-eyed light skinned Aryan?
Replies: 179
Views: 19856

Re: Was the Buddha a blue-eyed light skinned Aryan?

When Europeans have kids with non-Europeans, right of inheritance belongs to these kids and not to some other non-related Europeans. And those warlike Sintashta people were not some united ancestors of all modern Europeans, but in majority of R1a haplogroup, mostly spread in India, central Asia and...
by Dweller
Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:30 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hi from France, a Sakyapa Buddhist.
Replies: 56
Views: 6839

Re: Hi from France, a Sakyapa Buddhist.

Did you get your theories from prayer beads? If not, I say that it has nothing to do with all that you are asserted. Frankly, my friend, it seems to me that you suffer from a mental illness, because you assert a bunch of wild outrageous claims, offering no proof of any, except to say that you can p...
by Dweller
Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:30 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hi from France, a Sakyapa Buddhist.
Replies: 56
Views: 6839

Re: Hi from France, a Sakyapa Buddhist.

Yes Dan, the "much boasted" so-called rational thinking of the West. The Tibetans make predictions using their prayer beads. Their predictions are very accurate. So say you what? Did you get your theories from prayer beads? If not, I say that it has nothing to do with all that you are ass...
by Dweller
Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:48 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hi from France, a Sakyapa Buddhist.
Replies: 56
Views: 6839

Re: Hi from France, a Sakyapa Buddhist.

Have you read the criticism of Major Henry Olcott of Theosophy, for creating Buddhism from scratch in Sri Lanka, based upon his Westernized version of so-called Buddhism? That criticism of all traditional forms of Buddhism such as Tantra, Mahayana and Mantrayana by the Theravada created by Westerne...
by Dweller
Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:05 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hi from France, a Sakyapa Buddhist.
Replies: 56
Views: 6839

Re: Hi from France, a Sakyapa Buddhist.

Moshiach of Judaism will also start his mission at Tiberias, where you mentioned Gog and Magog will drink from the lake.

So they should watch not to cross each other's paths.

Jesus also spent a lot of time there, maybe he too comes to the party.

:)
by Dweller
Thu Oct 14, 2021 11:33 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Questions for practitioners of the Thanissaro Bhikkhu/A.Lee method
Replies: 6
Views: 698

Re: Questions for practitioners of the Thanissaro Bhikkhu/A.Lee method

Don't know how exactly was it meant to be done, but I focused both on the spot and on the "breath energy" through the whole body. I focused on the spot as much as needed not to lose concentration and eventually focused just on the "breath energy". "Breath energy" as I u...